I use to worry about what to do; today I will keep and sell.   

Yep, it's a SAD, SAD story. Yet somehow they have a facebook page. Maybe they are still broke and using the public library, but SAD, TOO BAD.

Hell, I SELL PICTURES  from lockers I buy back to the previous owner.  Some would say they have no value, but I figure it this way.

1) If nothing else, the frames have value.

2) The pictures DO have value...to the former owner.

I've only had one former owner squawk about it or challenge me about it.

One guy came to look at his pictures, etc and I told him $25 and he said they weren't worth that. That's funny, those irreplaceable memories you mentioned on the phone are now not worth $25?

BUT, he said "There's a little saw in an aluminum box I would be interested in." I had already sold it, but I asked him how much he would pay. He said he'd give $25 for that. That saw was what he was really there for. His locker had several totes of NEW orthotic devices (for sprained limbs) and that was his business.

The "saw" was the kind used for cutting through plaster/fiberglass casts. They sell new for $800 to a $1,000. I sold "his" on eBay for $400.  After he made his $25 offer I told him I had sold it for $400 and he just turned on his heels and walked out the pedestrian gate at my storage facility.

If your a reseller though, it doesn't really matter. It's all inventory regardless of whether it's from a private seller or from a storage facility.

Huh?  Is that why the two or three legitimate listings on the new website have RESERVES?

Seldom does one see a RESERVE at a lien sale. Sure, once in awhile, but even that is suspect.

Equating a private sale by someone who has a locker full of merchandise to a true LIEN sale is like comparing the proverbial apples and oranges. They're both round, but that's about it.

There are two types of people who might use your new website....1) sellers (of a variety of types) 2) buyers (of a variety of types, including newbies).

The BUYERS (who have experience) will definitely see a differece between a LIEN SALE and a private seller, just as they do at a regular storage auction at a facility. Manager's units (put togthers) and other "private" sales "never" (or at least SELDOM) do as well as the LIEN lockers at a regular auction.

Nope, I think Alloro made a very good point.

Good that it worked out !   

And yet here you are too...

Shouldn't you BOTH be out buying lockers ?   

Hmmm, hadn't heard that one but stuff happens out there.

That happened about 5 years ago when you were still in Texas. 

You may or may not have gotten this email from eBay...depends on your level of activity, etc.

Look at the number of free ads they offered me. It would take many 24 hour days of work to post that many unless they were the "similar" kinds items and still one could "never" do it.   What are they thinking ?

I heard a story on the caravans this past week that someone that was pretty cool was let go from one of the auction companies.

I heard from bRyan himself that he QUIT but it could have been because of the medical/auction story you related. If his boss John C. made bRyan choose between an auction and his child then John C. is an even bigger ***hole than I thought.

bRyan has worked for the jerk boss for 18 years. I wouldn't have worked for him for 18 days. The former boss was full of himself even before he appeared in a couple of the tv shows (for 30 seconds each time). He's on a power trip and always will be.

Once bRyan told his boss. "Look these guys are just out here hoping to make a $100 profit from buying and selling. They don't care about your auctions of art on a cruise ship."  He was right.

Finally, do you know of any other auctioneer who had his car "keyed" by a disgruntled auction buyer?  Neither does John C.

... my faith has been restored

Halleleujah !