Storage Auctions
The Storage Locker => Weird & Wacky Finds => Topic started by: Travis on July 20, 2013, 12:22:14 AM
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Yup, opened a small box yesterday and found a pink "toy" and a whip. :(
I don't care how long you've been in this business, your stomach still turns every time you find someone else's used sex toys. To make it even worse, it was a guy's unit. :(
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A few months ago I bought 4 lockers. One of them was a guy's unit and I found tools, garage stuff (oil, screws, etc.), a bunch of religious stuff, and 5 big black floppy... toys..
Also bought a unit that was mother/daughter property. Daughter had her name written on everything. Lots of women's clothes, perfumes, lingerie, and a strap on.. :-\
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You have to have a good command of the English language to avoid utter vulgarity. For example, when the wife and I are talking about sexy time in front of the kids.. Not necessarily about us, but just in general.. We always use the term "baking cookies". So our conversations go like this, "You know, it's been a while since we baked cookies." Or, "Helen said that ever since Harvey got that job they don't bake cookies as often."
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I bought a locker Friday.. a womans apartment..nice furniture , kitchen cookware & accessories, clothing of course ... and .. several NEW in the box adult toys ... I sold everything except the toys within 24 hours... I'm a top rated seller on ebay and have an excellent reputation.. I do NOT want to list any items that need to be placed in the "Adult" category... my question is How Do I get Rid of these 6 items?? any suggestions?
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Bought a unit earlier this year that belonged to a gay man. In the bottom of a box was a variable speed, oscillating toy. I wish I had a picture of my wife's face as she said " wow, that's big ". Happily, these finds have been rare for us.
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Happily, these finds have been rare for us.
You're lucky.
My worst find was a collection of adult DVDs focused on women 70 plus.
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You're lucky.
My worst find was a collection of adult DVDs focused on women 70 plus.
Sounds like you watched them all just to make sure................ :D
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Sounds like you watched them all just to make sure................ :D
Nope, never made it past the first DVD cover. Perhaps I was just naive at the time, but I didn't even know that kind of porn existed.
Storage auctions have warped my fragile little mind. :'(
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You're lucky.
My worst find was a collection of adult DVDs focused on women 70 plus.
I once had to clean out a car from a man who passed away. His trunk was full of magazines of women with Abnormally freakishly large breasts. (Some of them had wheeled carts to push them around...) They went straight in to the trash. I regret having thrown them out today. Darn sure that collection would have fetched a pretty penny from some sick-o.
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An*l beads and *****s are just a part of this business. The last locker I bought, the lady was a huge collector of dolphins. She had everything from dolphin lamps, figurines, lighters, bathroom sets, pictures etc. They seemed to match her dolphin *****s perfectly. I was honestly shocked to find out they make *****s to model animals, but a dolphin of all things.
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Update: so, when we were cleaning out the unit last week, we also found a pair of studded leather underwear that the "toy" attaches to. Upon further inspection, we noticed that the "toy" was partially melted. How does that happen? Battery malfunction? Friction?
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Update: so, when we were cleaning out the unit last week, we also found a pair of studded leather underwear that the "toy" attaches to. Upon further inspection, we noticed that the "toy" was partially melted. How does that happen? Battery malfunction? Friction?
Baking cookies on the stove is never a good idea...
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Update: so, when we were cleaning out the unit last week, we also found a pair of studded leather underwear that the "toy" attaches to. Upon further inspection, we noticed that the "toy" was partially melted. How does that happen? Battery malfunction? Friction?
2nd update:
This morning, the guy who won the unit I was selling on OnlineStorageAuctions.com called me and wanted to come clean out the unit. (Transaction went perfect by the way.) So, when he got to the storage facility, he and his two friends get out of the car and start looking through the unit. It hadn't been 30 seconds before he told me he was gay, introduced me two his 2 boyfriends and asked if I was gay. I replied no, I'm unhappily married. :D These guys were over the top gay. Like YMCA gay. It didn't bother me or anything, it's just not my thing. They were a trip though and they got a real kick out of the adult toys that were in the unit.
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You re-sold a unit you had already scanned over? Seems unethical.
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You re-sold a unit you had already scanned over? Seems unethical.
What? Just because he took out all the best stuff and left the rest for someone else?
Actually, there would be a market for the leftovers, but it would be marginal compared to the goodies that were removed. I didn't look at the ad but if it wasn't misleading in either text or pictures, it is just another locker up for sale and the fact it was offered online is just another negative in my opinion.
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I think the key would be if the people who bought it were made aware 'hey, I bought this unit, rummaged through it, and am now re-selling online'.
But what are the chances of that happening? Pretty good if Travis wants VSA.com to stick around for any length of time.
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Better than finding a box of poo
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I bought a locker Friday.. a womans apartment..nice furniture , kitchen cookware & accessories, clothing of course ... and .. several NEW in the box adult toys ... I sold everything except the toys within 24 hours... I'm a top rated seller on ebay and have an excellent reputation.. I do NOT want to list any items that need to be placed in the "Adult" category... my question is How Do I get Rid of these 6 items?? any suggestions?
You could setup another eBay account to sell those types of items
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The "BEST" (or the worst) bag I ever opened was a white plastic bag. Inside I noticed something LARGE and BLACK. That was not so bad but the Brown smears on the inside the bag made me vomit, just a little but sit there was vomit.
Best part really about this was that the unit was an office. The person called about 10 times over the next two days asking for his personal belongings. All I found that was personal was INNNNN guess where a white plastic bag.
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Sounds like this sort of thing happens a lot?
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Sounds like this sort of thing happens a lot?
No not really. It's just that even one sounds like a lot when it's your unit.
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Sounds like this sort of thing happens a lot?
You can reasonably expect to find porn or adult toys in 10-20% of the units you buy. It's just part of this business.
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You can reasonably expect to find porn or adult toys in 10-20% of the units you buy. It's just part of this business.
I don't see that much of it. Must be a Texas thing! :)
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I don't see that much of it. Must be a Texas thing! :)
I think it's just a "human" thing and it's part of this business. We're dealing with people's personal property. Sometimes it's gets really personal. It's so common in this business, Glendon Cameron wrote a book about storage auctions titled "The Porn is Always in the DVD Player." Although it's a ridiculous title for a book, it speaks volumes about this business.
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bought my first unit of this year yesterday and got my first box of cremated human remains ???
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got my first box of cremated human remains
I'm curious, what did you do with them?
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ran em through a percolater with some coffee , had a good kick to it :)
it was a public storage and i left it there with the pictures and papers and let the manager know hes contacting the customer to come get them
im kind of curious if the guy will show up and get them of if the manager is going to wind up disposing of her
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ran em through a percolater with some coffee , had a good kick to it
Hmm, I never thought of that. I usually bring along a carton of milk and a spoon, just in case.
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Oh wow. I remember when I was younger and saw something of the sort in my mothers closet. Never went in there again. I was so grossed out. But finding a strangers... And a man's.... Oh, ouch. I would have dropped the box and ran like I saw a spider.
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Never went in there again. I was so grossed out.
I would imagine so. Welcome to the forum BTW, you're off to a great start!
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I'm the type of person that doesn't mind getting his hands dirty... but there is a line, and one day I crossed it. My partner and I were going through a female unit. She was probably some sort of prostitute because it seemed that all she had was purses and stripper heels. The stuff was mostly clean so I start grabbing purses and searching through them. Each one had different stuff, but nothing really exciting. I'm opening zippers, digging my fingers into pockets, etc, looking for some cash, but nothing worthwhile seems to be coming from any of these bags. Because there were at least 30 purses, I start to get a little complacent and dig through them while talking to my partner, not really looking at what I'm touching. At one point, I grab something with my left hand and pull it out, while talking to my partner about whatever he is going through, and then he just looks at me funny. Not thinking, I ask "Why are you staring at me like that?" He glances towards my hand and I instinctively look down at it. NASTY VIBRATOR! I'm standing there, naked hand grasping a dirty used hooker submarine. Needless to say, it was one of my nastier moments. Fortunately, I have a giant jug of hand sanitizer, but man... mentally it wasn't enough to remove whatever germs may have jumped ship onto my skin.
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Son, your not a storage auction hero until you've had to "two-finger" pick through the entire contents of a an HIV positive intravenous drug users unit. The kind where the owner was nice enough to leave used needles in every furniture drawer, in every other box, randomly thrown about.
Nothing says your in for a fun day like doing the initial clean out and seeing needles falling of boxes. The real fun comes about 1/4 or 1/2 way through when you start finding the HIV meds or the Health Department records.
I've had THREE of these little gems so far in my illustrious career, so suck it up! I'll grab used *****s all day long rather then deal with the aforementioned unit. :72:
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I agree... Used Adult toys are one thing... I think if I came across a unit with all the needles etc.. I would just man up... Close the door down on it, and let the facility have it and my deposit.. Unless it was a really nice facility that I have dealt with and got great units at before.. then I might talk to them about burning the unit...
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I think if I came across a unit with all the needles etc.. I would just man up... Close the door down on it, and let the facility have it and my deposit..
That's just the opposite of man up, it's called giving up, or dumping your responsibility onto someone else.
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The HIV virus is very fragile outside of the human body. As blood dries, the virus dies.
Considering that most merchandise has been in storage at least 90 days before it goes to auction, I wouldn't be too concerned with it. If you're still worried about it, get yourself a pair of puncture resistant gloves.
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I agree... Used Adult toys are one thing... I think if I came across a unit with all the needles etc.. I would just man up... Close the door down on it, and let the facility have it and my deposit.. Unless it was a really nice facility that I have dealt with and got great units at before.. then I might talk to them about burning the unit...
Okay really I wouldn't, I take the business very serious... and you never know what you might find.. I found a few needles and some drugs in one unit... and did very well with the rest of the contents.
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I wouldn't abandon a unit just because of some needles. I can only think of a few scenarios where I would walk away and it's unlikely that these things would ever happen.