We are very lcuky here with TVs.  Goodwill has a deal with the county.  Goodwill takes them working or not and the county pays them like $5 each.  Of course it is covered by a tax on electronic goods but I have gotten rid of dozens of TVs that way. I no longer even try to see if they work unless it is an LCD or Plasma it is scrapped that means the easy to remove copper is removed then it goes right to goodwill.

+1 for that!  The only problem I have found with that is they only let you take a maximum of 5 computers and tvs at a time, and I've showed up more than once with 8-10!  They give me some crap usually about how the limit is five, and I tell them I can drive around the block and come back if it will make them feel better, and they always end up taking them.  I give them a lot of other stuff too, so they really make out on this program!

I do it quite a bit.  I've partnered up with five different people over the last couple of years, and there was only one that I regretted.  He didn't want to work very hard and I was doing most of the hauling, listing, and selling, and he just wanted to work it from about 10 am until 2 or 3 pm!  I was doing 90% of the work for half the money, and that didn't last long!

However, I have another guy I partner up with frequently.  We were competitors at auctions, and we were constantly bidding each other up on units.  We both liked the same kind of units, and it was easier (and more profitable!) for us to work together instead of constantly butting heads.  I trust his judgement now, and if we have a day where there are multiple auction runs, we'll split up and potentially split some units.  We don't do it on every one, and we still both buy a lot of units on our own, but we do have an arrangement that works for us. 

I'd like to have Dave's money, Barry's car, and Jarrods wife!  LOL.  I like Darrel the best though.

I just got a nice Ralph Lauren shirt in my size the other day.  I also got a case of Costco Kirkland brand toilet paper.   I get tons of detergent, softener, furniture polish, carpet cleaners, car waxes, etc.  One of the lockers I bought last Wednesday has a nice dark wood 8 drawer dresser and queen size bed combo that is going in my bedroom this week.  My wife saw it and said she'd kick me in the butt if I sold it!  Not long ago, got a nice stainless steel gas BBQ that I'm keeping.  Get artwork all the time.  Got a couple of LCD tv's in my house that came from storage units.  Tons of little hand tools and fasteners (screws, nails, glue, etc.) and all kinds of towels that I usually save for rags.  Plastic clothes hangers......buy enough units and you'll never need to buy another hanger again!

Wow, I have two of those myself!  So far, I haven't been able to do anything with them.  I put one of them up on eBay and they pulled the auction do to it being a "medical device" that I was not licensed to sell.  I have them just sitting in my shop.  I don't want to get rid of them because they must have some value to the right person.  They are very expensive new!

I've only ran across that one time.  The Auctioneer would not start any bidding below 25 bucks, and he shut the door on a number of units and did not sell them at all.  And the weird thing was, once he got a $25 bid on a locker, he would not sell it for the $25.00!  Unless he got one more bid over and above the $25, he shut the door on that unit too.  I think there were 11 units up that day, and he did not sell five.  I wanted this one locker, and another one of the bidders caught on and bid the $25, and then I won it for $30.  Then, a couple of lockers later, I returned the favor to him!  Weird auction!

In the Seattle area, $100 is pretty much the standard deposit for facilities that collect them.  I bought two units yesterday at a place in Everett and they charged me one $100 deposit and tied it to both units, so I had to get both cleaned out before I would get my $100 back (which I did today).   I'd say it's split about 50/50 on facilities that charge a deposit and those that don't, but like Mr. Andersen said, if you don't clean out your unit, you aren't coming back!

Sometimes it may seem like it's "game over", but I'm finding that if you attend enough auctions, there are still some deals to be had.  I'm still doing just fine and don't have any plans on getting out, but it's definitely not as easy as before the shows, that is a fact!