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eBay / Can anyone recommend a good book on selling on eBay?
« on: March 03, 2014, 09:20:34 AM »
I won’t use it, but maybe someone here will !


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We're a couple of months into 2014 now (March, 2014) so.....


...how many auction buyers are attending auctions in your area now?

Please list your state (and maybe the portion of your state) when responding.


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Now that you've sold the chair, are you going to upgrade to a nicer model?   :D

Paid $120 at a thrift store on a Monday. Monday next sold it for $700 on Craigslist. Guy drove 90 miles to get it; mine was in better shape than the $400 one that was only 30 miles from him.


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The photo above was the "before" shot....here's the "after" shot.




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I shoot photos at 640 x 480 pixels and post them that way on eBay and Craigslist.

Size on disc is 72 kb.

Here's an example; posted here with a simple html statement referring to the pic's location.












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eBay / Re: eBay scam email
« on: February 28, 2014, 10:14:06 AM »
Just got this scam email from someone impersonating eBay.




Considering the "volume" of your eBay sales over the last year this would have been super easy to spot as a fraud, but beyond that the most obvious "tell" on these things is that one's registered (real) name is not used in the address block of fake emails, and the salutation "dear member" is about as fake generic as one can get.

Forward copy to [email protected].  They will respond thanking you and letting you know it was indeed a phishing/fraudulent email.


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So far half the battle has been identifying what I have.

And researching the unknown items can result in better profits than just turning it over to someone who
already knows about it and wants to reap the real profits.

Research takes time but can pay off and if something truly isn't worth a lot, that's good to know too.

I have learned about new, profitable items through research and once I have sold something for many times what I paid for it I look for it again.  I have bought 6 specialized tools based on one great sale from the first two I bought.

First tool I paid $45 and sold for around $300. Second one bought new (at same source as first one and at same time) I paid $75 and sold for $1,000.  If that wasn't valuable research I don't know what was. Buying from unknowlegeable sellers (for whatever reason they don't know about the product) is still true....buy low, sell high.




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Why would an employee (or anyone else) take things like a vacuum cleaner, computer speakers & a box of trash bags but leave behind $1500 in computer diagnostic equipment?

They wouldn't.


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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Feedback
« on: February 27, 2014, 02:51:20 PM »
It's in the terms of service in bold red letters. Don't pay, manipulate the bids, etc. and your IP address is permanently blocked.

At at an "in person" auction the auctioneer and facility manager can truly prevent a person from bidding on a unit if they have been a problem in the past. However, that "bad person's friend" or relative could bid for them probably.

In an online situation where the bidder's ip address would be blocked, I would think it wouldn't be too much of a problem to use a new bidder's name and a new ip address to get around any "security".


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More than a hundred years ago storage units were tin cans buried in the ground. That was the case for this storage unit recently found in Tiburon, CA.

The cache of 1,400 gold coins has a projected value of  10 million dollars based on the uncirculated condition of many of the gold coins which were placed in the ground in the mid 1800s.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/02/25/couple-finds-10m-in-gold-coins-buried-on-norcal-property/


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General Storage Auction Talk / Re: Want some Campbell's Soup Equipment ?
« on: February 25, 2014, 02:08:41 PM »
I do love soup!

Can anyone loan me money?   I'm a few million short.......

The news feature I saw on our local station had a rep from the auction company who talked about the "lots" they had on pallets and I think there were 3K to 4K individual items.  You don't have to buy the whole company...but I know a few people in the auction/web business who could help you out with a loan.  ;D

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General Storage Auction Talk / Want some Campbell's Soup Equipment ?
« on: February 25, 2014, 08:44:32 AM »
You would need to be in the canning business to use the biggest pieces at this auction, but there are probably some shelving units, mop buckets, etc that most of us could either use or resale.

This sale is being conducted Feb 25, 2014 through the 28th.

rabin.com/Overview/Auction/Campbells%20Soup?gclid=CLj126PB57wCFcEDOgodK0cADQ


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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Feedback
« on: February 21, 2014, 08:49:33 PM »
Of course, the highest bidder should win and in most cases the storage facility is going to accept the winning bid. I'm just saying that, if they wanted to, they could refuse the highest bid (if that bidder had zero or negative feedback) to go with a bidder with positive feedback. Probably won't happen that often, but just like at an in-person sale, the storage facility reserves the right to reject any bid.

Uh...I think that MIGHT happen if they didn't receive a bid that was as high as they would like, but I think they would have a REALLY HARD TIME justifying not letting someone bid because they didn't like the way someone "looked" which might be the equivalent of not having good "feedback".

If they didn't accept person "A"s bid because it wasn't high enough that is one thing, but then they would probably not accept person "B"s that was only $5 higher.

IMO, one can't compare the situation of a live auction with one online. The online auction has hidden aspects not apparent to the bidders...aspects such as you project here.

Nope I don't see the logic in that at all.


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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Feedback
« on: February 21, 2014, 05:52:23 PM »
I disagree, I think it will be every important in years to come. Especially since storage facilities have the right to refuse any bid. If you were a facility manager and someone with 0 feedback won a unit for $500 and the runner up at $490 had a strong history of paying and cleaning out their units properly, which bidder would you choose?

Am I reading this wrong? Are you saying that once the bids are in that the facility would have the right to "choose" who won the auction?

That doesn't sound right. Shouldn't the highest bidder win?  If he didn't pay then the 2nd highest bidder would win I assume.


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Craigslist / Re: cList....is dead!
« on: February 18, 2014, 05:44:44 PM »
Just checking......anybody see their craigslist pick up yet?  Up here in my area, it died about two weeks into January, and except for an occasional item here and there, it is still dead!  I've been hearing that from other regulars around the area too....

Same here in central California. I think I've sold two items in the last 6 to 7 weeks. Fortunately, one of them was pricey !


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