I haven't had that happen but I always stress if I can't get something shipped the next day. I agree with you that if something is sold on Friday then the next shipping day is Monday so you are right and he is wrong. I live in a rural area and our local post office isn't even open on Saturdays. The nearest post office that is open on Saturdays is a 12 mile drive for me. Unfortunately he can still leave nasty feedback even if you are right but hopefully he won't Whenever I get a cranky buyer I check his feedback left for others. You might take a look just to see how he treats other sellers. Still nothing you can do but it might make you feel better to see.

I agree that $100 is definitely not enough and the facility should be bending over backwards to get the stuff picked up. They made a mistake and are facing a huge lawsuit so it is in their best interests to make it right. You should absolutely not have to do any more work and should be generously compensated for the work you already did. Plus I would imagine you paid them in cash at the time of the says so why should you have to wait for a check to be mailed? Crazy!

If I find a box or boxes that are obviously personal stuff while at the facility I will quickly look through it so see if anything of interest is included and then give the stuff to the facility to return. If I find stuff after returning home I will return it if/when I am in the area of the facility but will not make a special trip (unless it's really close). Also my desire to return stuff is very dependent on how it was packed. If the owners treated it like trash, so will I. Pretty much if the owners just randomly tossed photos in a box mixed up with junk mail, old vhs tapes and arrest records it goes to the dump.

Happy Thanksgiving to you also. I'm cooking (ugh) but went to Costco to buy my turkey and noticed they have pretty much everything you could need pre-made, just heat it up. I have to admit I was really tempted! I have only eaten "out" on Thanksgiving once in my life, it was on a cruise and it was awesome!

Yep, huge fan of Walking Dead. One of my favorite shows for sure. Have tried to get several family members to watch it and they all say "I don't like zombie shows" or "too much blood and gore". I have tried to explain that the interesting part is the living and how they survive, not the zombies. Also as far as the gross stuff goes, you get used to it, especially if you watch the after show and see how they film scenes and create the zombies. I'm also a fan of Face Off which is a reality show about special effects make-up so I can appreciate what it takes to make the gross stuff. Yep, Walking Dead is definitely one of my top five favorites of all time, along with Dexter, Lost, Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad!

I don't think so. If I was doing this solely to make a living I would not do it. I have made good money doing it and it can be an adventure but I wouldn't want to make a living doing this. It is HARD WORK! If I kept track of the hours spent standing around at auctions, cleaning out units, dump runs, research, listing on EBAY, packing and shipping....probably less than minimum wage!

There is an option you can check to have them automatically open a case for you called Unpaid Item Assistant. Maybe you clicked on it by mistake. It does seem handy but 3 days seems a bit fast. I imagine if your buyer contacted you to say they need more time you could probably close it. I would be worried that it could result in some grumpy feedback.  I inserted instructions on how to set it up below so I am sure you could cancel it using the same instructions if you want to.

Setting up Unpaid Item Assistant:
Go to My eBay > Account > Site Preferences.
Click Show to the right of Unpaid Item Assistant, and then click Edit .
Select Yes – I want Unpaid Item Assistant to open and close cases on my behalf.
In the drop-down menu, select the number of days you want Unpaid Item Assistant to wait before opening a case. If you don't see the lower settings (for example, 2 days), update your combined payments preference.
Select the Real-time option if you want to receive an email when the Unpaid Item Assistant opens or closes a case.
Under Automatically relist the item when the case is closed with no payment, select Yes or No.
Click Save.

As far as looked profitable but wasn't, paid $100 for a 10x10 with lots of furniture and tons of plastic storage boxes. Didn't see anything specific of value but how can you not make money if there is a ton of stuff, very neatly packed in boxes that someone paid for and you only pay $100? Well, all the furniture was total crap and the boxes were all full of crappy stained clothes and broken stuff. Found $20 in the pocket of a pair of jeans, and a new in box pair of "Raiders" shoes that we sold for $80.00. Yep, that was about it. Managed to sell a small portion of the clothing at a garage sale but most was total trash. If you figure in the dump load it wasn't even a break even locker.