I almost did this one time when I saw a really great unit and was short on cash but decided against it. If it was a unit with one high dollar item I may consider it but otherwise just dealing with some stranger or even just a casual colleague you know from auctions I dont' have the trust to say okay lets split it and sell it and split the proceeds. If the other guy finds a gold necklace while searching I don't trust him not to pocket it. With so many small dollar items I just think its more hassle than its worth to have to try to sell them together or decide who gets what.

Back when I was heavy into auctions I was working with a smaller bankroll than I am today so I was tempted many times to do something like this however now I have enough money to buy any unit I would want to buy, anything over what I could afford would be more than I would ever want to lay out on an auction anyway.

My current business partner and I may get back into auctions to supplement our other ebay business and we'll have much deeper pockets together than I used to so in a sense I guess thats partnering but its with a friend I've known for 10 plus years.

What I really can't make any sense of is pretty much everyone feels ebay already heavily favors buyers to a fault. If you wanna keep the status quo fine go ahead and don't sway things to sellers but to go even heavier handed in buyers favor is absolutely ridiculous. They had to know many people already left because of this and people already felt strongly about this issue and they do this. I don't see anything positive comming from this, I think if anything the policy will be abused and it was totally an unecessary change to make

Singing in is pretty common, I don't believe I've ever had to show ID unless I actually purhcased a unit. Reason for it? Who knows its their place they make the rules but it is a controlled environment you can't go in unless you rent a unit or are there for an acution. If you are there for an auction they want to know who is on their property

If someone can't pay for a storage unit who wants their identity and credit history lol. I'm sure some people have done bad things with info they found. I know I routintely find years worth of tax returns, social security cards, credit card statemetns, etc. If they didn't have auctions storage facilities would just throw them away and they would be at risk that way, its not like a storage facility is going to sort and shred sensitive documents so I don't think it contributes anymore than a storage facility just tossing them would

Look up each of those on eBay and select completed listings. That will give you an idea of what people are willing to pay for them.

Yeah was trying to do that, was seeing things go for a pretty huge range, also some people put in more ram or a solid state or something and then that kinda affects price too. You think I'll be able to get ebay prices on cl since they are macs and lot of demand or think I'll get lowballed like everything else?

Yeah I would most definately go in person> I think anyone who has ever shopped for a used car can attest to the fact that some stuff you see online it's like wow that looks super nice wonder why its so cheap and you show up and yeah photograph definately hid cosmetic imperfections let alone you don't know anything mechanical from pics.

Yeah I used to go to some US Marshal auctions for cars that were run by the same guy who runs many storage auctions. I always seem to miss the city ones though. I imagine big city ones are good like for you Dallas and me CHicago but I wonder if one may have better luck at smaller burbs, less people know about them maybe. THe one I wanted to attend this morning was in a suburb about 45 min from Chicago of about 150k people. I could have gone to the viewing this mornning before work and sent my girl with the money but figured I"d rather be there for the whole thing if I'm gonna drop a few thousand. Disapointed I missed it though.

I sold a Teddy Ruxpin or however its spelled the one with the tape inside that talks and mouth moves, got a decent buck for that a few years back. I'm was going through my basement looking to clear some stuff out and listed a few cabbage patch dolls on ebay for fairly low prices and non sold, I think relisted a few times and gave up.