Well, it's finally happened. I purchased a locker in a not so good area of town. Posted some furniture on a local FB site. Within two minutes, the locker owner's relative commented and asked how much for everything (I figured this out by looking at his photos and friends list). I looked on his profile and he has been in prison, no idea what for, as his real name is not posted. The locker owner's son was also recently incarcerated for armed robbery, per her FB status.
Problem is, against my better judgement, I posted the furniture using my real name. Now they can find out my personal info, where I live, they have seen pics of my child, etc. And I'm pretty sure I almost ran into her at the grocery store the other day.
Now I can't sell the items on that page, or on Craigslist, as they could send anyone of their friends/family to "purchase" the product. And do who knows what to try to acquire the other items.
Do I contact the storage facilities manager and offer to sell back the entire contents to the owner, and let the manager be the middle man? How likely are they to reach the owner, let alone have them pay, when they didn't pay for the unit in the first place? Or do I take it all to auction and cut my losses?
There was a TON of personal stuff in this unit, which I fully intended to return once I've gone through it all.
The business side of me says I'm the rightful owner, if they want to buy it back, they are welcome to do so, at cost. The heart in me says to cut them a break and let them just reimburse me for my investment. The rest of me is somewhere in between. And I am somewhat fearful of retaliation. I don't need someone busting up into my house.