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What's the most number of people you've seen at an auction.

Offline Zao24

What's the most number of people you've seen at an auction.
« on: April 24, 2012, 09:36:29 AM »
I just saw 4-500 people at a Friday night auction up here in Canada.  I was short on time so I had to leave after the first locker.  Pretty crazy.

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Re: What's the most number of people you've seen at an auction.
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2012, 01:37:04 PM »
I would estimate around 300.

Re: What's the most number of people you've seen at an auction.
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2012, 01:48:33 PM »
Most was MLK day - 300 people (facility said was 350 but I think they double counted some).  Second largest was my first auction ever on a saturday - 178 people.  We were an hour late getting started as the facility wanted to register everyone.

Re: What's the most number of people you've seen at an auction.
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2012, 10:46:58 PM »
Wow,mine was only 50=60 people.

Re: What's the most number of people you've seen at an auction.
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2012, 09:25:35 AM »
20-50 people is a normal size crowd in my parts now.  When I first started it was a dozen or so people, up to 25 for the caravans.  I can still sometimes hit a auction with less then 10 bidders but it's harder to do.  Most of those are out of the way, 1 unit auctions that cancel more times then not.

I could see large cities like Atlanta with 300+ people at an auction easy.  I don't think they hit those numbers to often due to the large # of auctions going on at a time in the area.

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Re: What's the most number of people you've seen at an auction.
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2012, 09:36:57 AM »
Around 300, and that was THIS past Good Friday!

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Re: What's the most number of people you've seen at an auction.
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2012, 10:00:48 AM »
100 people. That was after 2nd week after storage bors aried. Now that lots of people have found out you dont make storage wars money out of every unit its down to about 30 people each auction. Wednesday having the most people.

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Re: What's the most number of people you've seen at an auction.
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2012, 11:25:34 AM »
100 people. That was after 2nd week after storage bors aried. Now that lots of people have found out you dont make storage wars money out of every unit its down to about 30 people each auction. Wednesday having the most people.

No offense but all the complaining you've been doing about the shows and the large crowds and high bids, and the most you've seen is 100 people??  That's the minimum here when they advertise.  Mind you, I've been to one with only 6 people that didn't advertise so it's not always bad.

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Re: What's the most number of people you've seen at an auction.
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2012, 09:14:20 PM »
This was the busiest auction I have ever been to. Over 200 people with 58 units at one facility. http://www.khou.com/news/local/Dozens-of-storage-units-auctioned-to-highest-bidder-111475599.html



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