Tell them you're tired of paying a 10-15% buyer's premium.

So you're saying you will never ever charge a buyer's premium on OSA?  I see the FREE things only lasting until you have enough business to justify adding a BP or charge a straight % fee to the Storage Facility.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but I doubt I am.

I talked to a storage facility today that put the wrong date in their legal notice. Instead of listing February 6th, they listed January 6th (which has obviously passed.) Well, Storage Battles/Treasures has a $20 cancellation fee per unit. They had 11 units listed with them, so they got taxed $220.  When will they learn that they don't have to pay fees?

The storage facilities just passed that fee down to the tenant and if/when the unit sells - That's less money the tenant gets back. 

I wouldn't blame SB for the listing being removed by a storage company, it's the storage companies fault, like travis said they could of listed the wrong date on the public notices, or spelled the tenants name wrong, or a myriad of other issues. The last thing the care about is what the unit goes for when they sell it. The main issues are the legal issues (that's where the cost comes in if they do it wrong).

I understand the legalities, I just think it's kind of petty. If a buyer doesn't pay, just contact the next highest bidder and sell the unit to them. No point in threatening people. After all, who in their right mind is going to spend thousands of dollars in attorneys fees to recover a few hundred? 

I think you'll do the same Travis, If you let 1 person walk all over you. Then you're inviting everyone to walk all over you.

Everyone thinks "$1000's of Dollars" in attorney fees.  Well first most professional companies have a legal staff, they need things to do. Other then look over contracts, etc.  So I doubt, Companies pay as much as you think. They are mostly salaried.

But knowing what I know of JIM, with his ace security adviser, his talented Programmer. I'm sure he has top-notch lawyer too 

Upon additional analysis of the email addresses showing, that's the name the person choose as their user ID.  Those people are just idiots who did that.

Now here's the fun part, but I'm sure Jim already knows this cause he has an ACE *Security Adviser* cough.

Say I want to win an auction, or try to snipe it, in the final minutes and I know the bidder I'm up against and their Internal ID used by storage battles.

storagebattles.com/profile/?logmeout=please&loid=XXXXX

Just replace the "XXXXX" with the ID you want to log out, set it as a loop to prevent that user from logging in and bidding, until the auction is over.

Lets say an employee at SB provides the complete list of ID and user names to a person or a friend that's interested in a unit. Then they can exploit it.  Let's say a person got a friends ID from just looking at the html, while his friend was logged in and jotted it down.

He still hasn't fixed the SSL issue when logging into or creating a new account..

 

I wonder if his "security analyst" and "CIO" approved of this practice?

They probably got a promotion :/ 

Now if this happened, in a public-ally traded company the company board would be forced to replace the CEO.  Bad decision making :/

Travis:

Just to clarify your comments, StorageBattles.com took all security measures and precautions in transferring over our clients information recommended by our CIO and an external security consultant.  No credit card information is being transferred over, and actually through our security procedures, is not even saved in our system.  All that was transferred over was contact information.  You can use the site without entering a credit card.  However, if you do wish to bid, then you will be required to enter your credit card information and change your password.  As we continue to be the leader in the online storage auction business segment, our StorageTreasures.com web site will continue offer many more benefits than our StorageBattles.com web site including the most comprehensive list of live auctions in the US, over 6,000 online auctions per month, and now the ability of trading, selling and buying items online through our new TreasureChest FREE online store. 

Thank for yours and your contributors concerns and comments.  Keep them coming as they help make us better.

Jim Grant
CEO StorageTreasures/StorageBattles

Jim,

   First off your not making smart decisions, but yet you have success.  I can think of a few people that fall into this category. Sometimes clueless people just get dealt the right cards. I'm not saying Travis is right, lord knows he and I disagree on just about everything.

  Secondly, using the same password for all accounts is not smart, most people will say it's stupid, any external security company would not advise that. So I personally don't believe you and if by some chance you're telling the truth, see my first comment.  This decision alone makes me feel un-safe to use your system.

  Thirdly, when I was in my new "Storage Treasures" account, I went to add my "Credit Card" and well it said my credit card was already on file. So they might not get my Credit Card #'s because you are using Authorize.net CIM solution. The hacker will still gain the ability to use my account and bid on auctions and my credit card would be charged and when those people complain you will be charged with Charge-back fee. Get enough of those and well, we both know what happens.

  Forthly, Title's like "CIO", "Security Consultant" - Doesn't means it implies intelligence or removes you from accountability. They are just people and nothing special, companies go bankrupt all the time and they all have CIO's and CEO's, CFO's, CPA's etc.  Title's are meaningless it's the person's knowledge and experience that counts. For example keep reading.

  Fifthly, Your Programmer and external security adviser *Cough*, must of not informed you that you are not even PCI Compliant.  For example, I can register for an account at http:// www. storagebattles.com/register/ - Notice it's not "SSL"  - Then I can advance to the next screen and put my data in, not under SSL.  Just because your link on the front page takes you to a SSL Page, doesn't make you PCI Compliant. If I sent the register link to a friend or posted the register link on a forum with HTTP not HTTPS and then they sign up. Their CREDIT CARD data can be comprised.

So that about sums it up Jimmy, I'm not even trying to audit your system and processes. Imagine if I did? Just make smarter decisions and hire the right people.

You're way off again. Interest in storage auctions has been on the decline for years; However, OSA is actually growing in a declining market. As a matter of fact, traffic increased by 25,000 visitors last month alone and when the auction schedule goes live this month, our traffic should double, even triple. I assure you, we're not shrinking. Between new articles, forum posts and blog comments, we're growing at a rate equivalent to a hundred articles a month.

It's your forum stats..

http://onlinestorageauctions.com/forum/stats/

2013 - 33,471,656 (Page views)
2014 - 7,425,131 (page Views)

2013 - 10,015 (Posts)
2014 - 5355 (Posts)

2013 - 630 New Members
2014 - 280 New Member

Granted you got 2 months left.. But lets not kid ourselves - It's in the decline - even you can't contest you own stats, oh wait, yeah you again. Because you'll spin this... Saying well we got a blog or another portion of the site making up for the declining traffic on the forum.