Storage Auctions
The Storage Locker => General Storage Auction Talk => Topic started by: MovieMan on February 03, 2011, 10:02:42 PM
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New men's tennis shoes (Nike, Converse, etc) at a decent price. Not giving them away when they sell for $60 or more. I have a hard time selling them at $15 (at flea). They go better on eBay, or sometimes not at all on eBay.
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Furniture, It has to be really cheap or really nice to sell around here. I end up giving it away on Craigslist most of the time if it does not go to the dump. Clothes I rarely try to sell as everyone wants them dirt cheap even ofr new with tags.
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I would say books are hardto sell. It seems no one wants books unless they are for free.
Also i find pictures to be slow, unless they are oil paintings of a well known artist. But prints and other pictures are not moving at all.
So what i do with books and pictures is that i save them up, and twice a year i hold a yardsale for the products that are hard to sell.
Then they can be sold for 2 to 5 dollars a pice.
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I have a hard time with clothes. Furniture isn't too bad for me. If it's cheap or dumpy furniture I'll sell say a kitchen table for like 5 bucks. Not really making much but dont gotta pay to throw it away and any money is good money.
For nicer furniture I just found a resale shop in my area and the lady was saying she cant keep enugh furniture in the store, flying out the door. It is an upscale resale shop though so has to be nice stuff.
I really struggle with clothes. Even good brands like Dolce Gabbana I have to practically give away on ebay. Just sold a D&G blazer that was probably 300-400 new and I think I sold it for $4 plus shipping.
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I have had a hard time with CRT TVs and autographed memorobilia with out a C.O.A.
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I would have to say Books here, as was stated they want them for free.
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Matresses, then artwork
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And all of this is in almost every locker, might wonder if it possible to make money on anything at all.
I think there is more to it then that.
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I would have to say Books here, as was stated they want them for free.
I'll check some books online first (military, guns, specialty topics) and if they aren't going there I'll take
them to the flea. I hold to a good price (say $8 to $10) on a book about Flying Fortresses, and the like and usually
get it....might have to take it out 2 or 3 times though.
A girl asked about a "Fitness for Dummies" book and when I said $3 she couldn't put it down fast enough. I forget the
book store price but it has to be $14 or so.
Sometimes when they react that way I'll say, "Well, let's see what it sells for at the bookstore." Turn it over and let them hear $24.95 (or whatever). Sorry, I'm only human the customer ISN'T always right.
I've also found that bundling several books helps out. If they don't want to pay the $3 for fittness book, I put another one or two with it (if I have them) and say "How about $5 for all three?". If they don't want that deal they need to go
to the library...I hope they don't have to pay overdue fees !
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Ironically, I always had bad luck with the high end appliances and furniture. It always seemed to bring out the tire kickers. On the other hand, I couldn't keep the average and low end furniture around. Tip for the newcomers: low end appliances sell like hotcakes.
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Personally I've had luck with selling books, I made over $400 on Dungeons and Dragons books in one week. I'd say the hardest thing to sell, for me, is microwaves.
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dirty old thongs, can never seem to get rid of those.
I have a hard time with shoes as well. I had a brand new pair of puma speedcat suede womens shoes still had stickers on the bottom. Tried several price points on ebay and craigslist, finally wound up selling for like $9 plus shipping reasonable shipping so didnt make anything off it.
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So far for me it's electronics; computers, monitors, printers, stereos, 8-track players, cash registers. Haven't figured out the best way to sell this stuff. Of course I am talking about obsolete electronics, that are scraped up, missing plugs, wires, and accessories, probably don't work at 100%. ???
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So far for me it's electronics; computers, monitors, printers, stereos, 8-track players, cash registers. Haven't figured out the best way to sell this stuff. Of course I am talking about obsolete electronics, that are scraped up, missing plugs, wires, and accessories, probably don't work at 100%. ???
Computers I scrap out myself, I use to build them, I still do every now and then when I feel like it. Monitors I junk if they are the old CRTs, printers (obsolete ones) I sell as a big lot of them. Have not came across the rest of those mentioned, so I wouldnt even know how to get rid of them.
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Personally I've had luck with selling books, I made over $400 on Dungeons and Dragons books in one week. I'd say the hardest thing to sell, for me, is microwaves.
I had 4 average microwaves at my first sale this year and sold them very quickly. I just had another sale and only sold 1 of the 3 I had. Hit or miss I guess.
My enemy is picture frames.They do sell, but I accumulate them faster than I sell them. I'd like to see a poll of storage auction buyer's inventory of those...
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Currently I have over 20 picture frames. I get at least 10 per unit.
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A diamond - get it? Hardest item - get it?.....whatever, fine don't laugh
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TRASH, nuff said :)
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That reminds me. About 4 months ago I bought a 10X45 with 26 pallets of new picture frames. Over 6000 in all. It was a nightmare trying to sell them.
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That reminds me. About 4 months ago I bought a 10X45 with 26 pallets of new picture frames. Over 6000 in all. It was a nightmare trying to sell them.
wow, thats alot of frames. What did you pay on the unit. I would think you would be able to find a vendor to buy the whole lot at a wholesale price if you didnt pay much for the unit.
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$375 I was trying to sell them as a whole for $1,750. I called every picture frame shop in town, nobody had room or could use them. I waited over a month to find a buyer. The lady I sold them to was going to piece them out individually on Ebay. She will probably make 20K over the next year or so.
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$375 I was trying to sell them as a whole for $1,750. I called every picture frame shop in town, nobody had room or could use them. I waited over a month to find a buyer. The lady I sold them to was going to piece them out individually on Ebay. She will probably make 20K over the next year or so.
Wow I guess frames are down on sales.
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So were you able to find the auctions in San Antonio by searching for the auctioneers?
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Ya I got a few I follow through the auctioneers sight that does not get posted to The Hart Beat. Mostly from Legacy Auction.
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I despise picture frames! Dead weight...
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Well, in the future we will offer a listing service in San Antonio, Dallas /Fort Worth and then central Texas around Austin. It is just a lot of work building the databases for areas of this size. Our Houston database took me over a month to build. That's a month with no income on a hope that our service would do well. We are just now getting into a point where we are efficient enough where we can focus on another city. I'm banking that Dallas / Ft Worth will be our next project over the next three months. Then San Antonio, then Austin. I will have to hire a new person to make phone calls for every new area we move into. The costs start adding up quickly. But look for our service in the San Antonio area within the next 12 months.
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Huh?
Is your reply #25 just above your OWN response to your question in reply #22.
Or did you just post this info in the wrong thread? Just seemed strangely out of place to me, but
in our business a lot of stuff is out of place...to good antiques in a junky lkr to trash in a lkr that should be in the landfill.
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He and I were having a conversation on a couple different threads. The conversation was about whether there was a storage auction listing service in San Antonio.
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He and I were having a conversation on a couple different threads. The conversation was about whether there was a storage auction listing service in San Antonio.
Oh that is what you were asking. There is The Hart Beat, which covers about 90% of the facilities here in SA. Most of which do not advertise anywhere else.