Welcome back terrorbow!

I had a buddy who was a golf pro at Camelback Country Club in Scottsdale back in the 90s.  He rented at a local facility, and he would sometimes buy the abandon units.  He found a TON of great golf equipment and sold several complete sets.  With Scottsdale being a fairly weathly area, you might find some good stuff.  Tempe is the home of ASU - so the units there may be college-type.  Then there are the snow bird parks.  Many rent units, and some forget about them.  Once again, retirees have moolah.

An easy way to pick up merchandise you can turn-and-burn is to attend spring training baseball games.  It's a great place to pick up team issued (and free) memorabilia (hats, programs, balls, team photos, bobbleheads, etc.)  You'd be surprised how that stuff sells on eBay.  People from all over the country eat it up.  Tickets are cheap, they hand out tons of stuff during the season, and the games are a little more laid back.  This would also allow you to get autographs, which also sell on eBay.  (Lot of different baseball teams during Feb/Mar - plus Suns and Cardinal players also make personal appearances all over the area for free!!)  Quick and easy way to build up merchandise that doesn't take up much space.  I used to live in Milwaukee, and got tons of Packers stuff when the players made appearances.  To this day, people still buy everything I list.  It does take some time, but at least you don't have to rent a storage unit! 

Good luck!

You under-quoted by about 35,000.

If I could get 50k listings at once, I might take the rest of the year off!!   

Sorry....typo.    My fingers were a little tired from listing 17,000 items yesterday!!

Ahem....there is a "catch" to the free listings.  (For us regular folks, not store folks)

If you look waaaaay at the bottom of your My eBay page, they limit the number of "free" listings to 49,999.

So Rockin and Money - you better watch out so you don't go over!!   

OOPS   - saw this on my local Craigslist ----->

I want my items back!!!!! - $1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 2012-03-07, 10:22AM CST
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I had a yard sale on feb 24 and 25th and the following items are now gone which were NOT apart of the sale nor were they paid for!!!!! A silver and black video camera still on the charging doc, a Panasonic digital camera, 2 thumb drives, and a purple sylvania mp3 player!!!! A woman purchased a black 2 drawer metal filing cabinet and the items were believed to have been put in there:( If you were the one who bought the cabinet please return my stuff and there will be no harsh feelings. There are priceless pics and videos on these!!!! A police report will be filed as the items being stolen if I don't hear anything in a couple days. Please please please have a heart and return my items!!!! Thanks so much!!!

(smarta$$ comment = Hope they aren't referring to any Paris Hilton-type "priceless" home video!!  Yep, they'll return your stuff right after selling the movie rights!!   )

OK, this might not suck, but I didn't want to start an "Annoy the Crap Out of You" thread.

Went to a facility with 6 lockers run by the owners, not by auctioneers. (In fact, now that I think about it, other than the local U-Haul thing, most every storage auction in my area is run by the facility owners)  There were about 50-60 people there.

Anyway, the annoying part is they don't make everyone line up to look at the unit, so there is a large wad of people in front of the locker. (see photo).  The REALLY annoying part is someone usually in the middle of the pack will yell out "50 BUCKS" - and they take their bid and start up - before half the crowd has even seen the locker!  This started happening at every locker and most bids were up to $300-500 before you got a good look.   

Now I realize it's up to the facility to set the guidelines, and with no rules stated up front, it's every bidder for themselves.  But does this ever happen to anyone else?

Nice job!  Heck, it would have been a good buy even at the $100.

Good luck!

***UPDATE FROM 3/10/12***

Facility #1 - 3 units and only 9 bidders.  They were also three of the nicer units I have seen in the last six months or so.  Not "nice" in the sense of designer clothes, VanGogh paintings, guns, and safes - but nice "turn-and-burn" resellable merchandise.  Because of this, the prices were fairly high.  

1)  Pictured below- went for $525, bought by local whale.  Had a nice tool box (in front) - half a dozen designer-type lamps in good shape - otherwise it was chucked full of boxes.  No big stuff.  I went up to $350.
 
2)  Not pictured - went for $270 - interior 5x10 unit with a sleigh bedframe (wood) - TV, couch, tables, chairs, dresser with a missing drawer - it was packed and dusty.  People I knew won, so I helped them unload.  WOW - couch turned out to be leather sectional.  Found the missing drawer - loaded with every leg they needed - and bags full of cushions.  Couch and all cushions in great shape, no rips.  They should be able to double or triple up easily.