Well, wrapped up the first garage sale of the season today (calling for lots of rain tomorrow, in fact, it started raining 10 minutes after we closed it today!)

All in all I feel it was quite the success.  We did a little over $1400 for today between the group.  I'll probably do it again toward the end of May.  It was actually kind of fun.  People were pretty friendly and excited to be out in the nice weather and to be able to get out and buy stuff after a long crappy winter!

It's an alright deal, however, many storage facilities offer the first month for free, with no administration fees and fine print.

Some do, but some of those also make you stay for a minimum amount of time, and if you get the first month free and have to stay for three months, it doesn't pencil out.

I bought a unit that turned out to have a bunch of stolen clothes in it.  I would have never known, but I took them in to a consignment store I do business with to sell them, and she pointed out where they had small slits where somebody had cut the ink tags off.  She wouldn't buy them (she knows what I do and she knew I didn't do it, but she doesn't want that crap in her store) so they all ended up at Goodwill. 

Well, somebody needs to start some threads around here.  For as many members as we have, we should have many more new postings to read every day.  Someone out there must have something to say?!

This never happens!  After yesterdays fiasco where I couldn't even get a unit for $1600, it was nice to go to a facility that had fewer bidders and decent prices.  I got a unit on a silent bid at a smaller facility for $50.  It had a nice Sealy Posturepedic King Size Mattress in it (I know a lot of you guys don't like them, but it's money in the bank!), a small sofa, a very nice 12 drawer light oak dresser (not particle board), some pots and pans and small kitchen appliances, a leather chair, some jumper cables and a few tools (haven't looked in the boxes much yet, just saw those laying on top) and some other misc. stuff.  Not going to be a home run (unless I find some Rhino horn in one of the bags!) but I'll make an easy few hundred.  Took 10 minutes to load it up, everything small was in a box or a bag and easy to move. 

In other events, I picked up around 30 tables, split between round and square (used in a food court type setting), over 100 various chairs, six office desks, including a nice executive HON with a return, HON lateral filing cabinet, six steel cabinets, a really cool WA Husky/Miller Light beer sign (about 7' wide!), five wood and glass display cases with locking glass doors above and storage underneath (about 7' tall), a couple of other cases, two magazine racks with lights, and some other misc. cabinets and some small appliances and other stuff.  Got all this from a store that was closing down.  Picked EVERYTHING up for $300!  Who needs storage units?  LOL!

Another thing about this show is that when the "expert" throws out a price range (say $150-$300), their little on screen total always jumps by the largest amount.  Trying to make it just that much more profitable I guess. 

Then, when they show him auctioning off the ivory at the end, he says the stuff sold for $2400 instead of $2000.  Okay, but what about the 35% - 40% that the auction house gets?  Sure, he made money, but if you take even 35% off of $2400, that only leaves you with a little over $1500.

As far as Barry throwing the crap outside........I can't believe that there isn't some salable items in that pile!  I know he is looking for the "big score", but what does happen to the rest of that stuff?  He would be better off trying to at least get some of his money back by selling it cheap to Jarrod and Brandi.

Lot's of questions, where's the answers?

I had an actual auctioneer have a mild heart attack in the middle of and auction!

Must have been right after the "shows" started..........he couldn't believe the pricing either!

Whats up with all these spammers??

Good question!  I wish I knew the answer!