I would think that they would have a hard time picking over the lockers. The locker owner could show up 5 mins before the auction and pay it off. If things are missing from their locker someone would have some explaining  to do.

I think they hide the cherry picked items the night before the auction and risk it. Most people who are really trying to get the payments in call, and try and try to come to an arrangement. Those likely to not show up at all never call or return a call or a letter.

That is why I have an issue with pre-cut locks. They no longer keep the  honest people honest when they are gone.

Kinda funny.. the company who has been in the business the longest is the slowest to adapt to new technology

I get the e-mail from fedex confirming a package sent to me has been delivered to me before the driver has completed her short walk back to the truck.

Honestly, I should keep better track. But..

Travel $0 I work the auctions in to trips to that area for my other business. I try not to buy lockers that won't fit in my full size van. Been known to sell items to others that wanted one item from the locker on site.

Dump runs $60 a ton. I avoid them as much as I can. I pay 100 a month for the 3 yard dumpster behind my shop. I use that as much as possible. tipped once a week.

Storage? I turn and burn on a lot of items I buy. IE, I dump clothing on CL in lots, I find i do better asking $50 for a tote bin of infant clothing than trying to price it and list it outfit by outfit. Might make more, but it's much easier to lay it all out, snap a photo and list it as a lot. I'll price large items 10-25% less than others on CL to move them quickly.

When I do need to store something I keep it in the basement of my business. I pay $100 a month for the 1500 square foot basement. (Inaccessible except through my shop. but he wanted "something" for it) but a good 50% of that is unrelated to storage lockers down there.

I should mention I am a bit like Berry in the show. I buy looking for things I want to keep. I always want to make money on the locker. Thankfully the items I keep tend to be items no one wants anyways

Sounds like the type of unit I stay away from.  I just don't have room for furniture and those TVs would cost me $10 each to dispose of if they don't work.

Hope you do well with the unit however.  May the unit fairy leave you a goodie or two behind sofa #1.

Your lucky to give a tube TV around here away.

I will add about the mattresses and non working appliances. You can take apart the mattresses and throw away all the cushioning and take the coils to a scrap yard. It does not pay much, not really worth my time, but I have a partner that will take them off my hands, and that is what he does with them. Same thing for non working appliances. You can find people who will buy them off that fix them up and sale them. Or you can take it yet again to the scrap yard.

I burn them. however the metal parts left over still take a lot of space when hauling scrap. And they don't weight enough to pay anything.

I buy matress units but only if I see value

I hadn't thought about rich people moving out of the city. This is true, however, it seems that rich people would not fall behind on their payments, unless they lost their job or something. Thank you for the reply. We'll find out this Saturday!

They do die. Sometimes family does not know (or care) about the locker.

How did they get the winners name?

I am going to start using fake names. Last thing I need is the looser who lost the locker calling me trying to get stuff back.

My dump is charging around $40 a ton I think, BUT if you only take a pickup-load (stacked as high as you can get it) or a van load (no more than 8 feet behind last seat) you only pay the minimum which is $16.

In my van I have taken in about 1,900 pounds max and gotten by with the minimum price which saves a few bucks over the weigh-in price.

In the case of the 1,900 pound load the minimum price (without weighing in) would have saved $22 as that weight is 95% of a ton.

we recently replaced the floor in my store. We removed a layer of VCT tile, a layer of 1/4 sub floor, a layer of 1/2 chip board, another layer of VCT and then a layer of 3/4 due to water damage.

It all fit in my half ton GMC van. Tipped the scale at the dump at 8000 and change. Left at a hair under 5000...

Paid 150 to dump it. Construction debris is less.

The dump is own and managed by waste management. Maybe that's the problem.