Here is the original post:  I trust that it will remain here in its entirety without being deleted or edited.

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I understand you are trying to bash Storage Battles in order to make your new personal online self storage auction site look better than what it is, but I would appreciate if you did not construct lies. I find it ironic that you contacted Storage Battles numerous times in the past 12 months acting very interested in the online industry and expressed the need to blog and write about it to promote how all auctions are heading this way. Storage Battles gave you accurate and honest information for the past 12 months. You have been full of lies from day one trying to get a quick buck creating a platform that you do not have any experience in other than you being a blogger/writer. Storage Battles held ONE auction on April 10th, 2013, which was not the facility mentioned in your blog. I also find it ironic that Storage Battles only held ONE auction the day you had lied about the illegal post, when Storage Battles has 10-30 auctions ending every day.

Travis, the sentence below is what you had stated. Why do you find it necessary to construct lies to make your site more appealing?
Oh, and they even sold another unit which belonged to a female tenant which was not even listed in the legal notice.

I would hope if you actually believed in your concept/website then you wouldn't find it necessary to bash the competitors in order to get ahead. Do you believe that when buyers/facilities are exposed to your lies that it will increase your business? I only wish you were a real man of integrity as you falsely portray yourself.

Why fight with your competitor on a concept that is just being introduced in the industry?

Lastly, Storage Battles would appreciate it if you would discontinue sending private emails to all the facilities that you gain from storagebattles.com. Your strategy in stealing facilities oppose to actually selling your concept only exemplifies the type of business you are running.

Thank you.

I didn't delete the post, the commenter deleted his/her own post. If I wanted to delete the post, I would have got rid of the quotes as well.

I should have realized that !

Whoa !  There's a post that won't survive the KNIFE SLASH of history being re-written.  Either that post will go or the whole thread will disappear.

Now you see it. Now you don't. A magician's trick.

The portion of the original storagebattles post that I quoted was at the end of their post. The top 3/4 of their original post basically accused Travis of falsifying the bulk of his post. These are just the facts of this thread.

It's been done and will be done again.

Of course if the un-ethical person who does this uses his own I.D. his credit history will take a hit for not paying his bills. Won't matter if the auction brought in what was owed or more than was owed.

Several years ago that empty box scene happened in Sacramento, CA. Guy paid $4K for the locker of empty boxes (brand new cardboard tool boxes, etc). He put up such a stink that he got his money back and the guys who had done the setup were banned from attending auctions (yes, they were auction buyers who knew the biz).

Those guys haven't been back since but I'm sure they're up to no good somewhere.

Can you imagine how big this guys house must have been to accommodate that 5 piece Bassett living room set and a 7'X5' mirror? The guy must of had a 40'X40' living room with 20 foot ceilings.

I'm sure it wasn't a double-wide.

And despite all his "goodies" he lost them all to a lien auction...guess it was nice while it lasted.

...if you are very proactive, can you make a DECENT part time income buying from storage auctions.  not looking to get rich, just maybe a thousand a month or so

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The short answer is yes.

The longer answer is:

1) not as likely as it was 2 years 4 months ago (pre tv shows)

2) not as likely considering more renters are paying their bill if their stuff is of better quality

3) not as likely if newbies keep spending more than a locker is worth.

4) not as likely as regular long-time buyers are paying premium just to get stock to stay in business.

5) other contributors here may have more reasons it is tougher "now" than "then".

Absolutely right guys...Pictures make the sale.

Nice closeups of the motorcycle and sidecar !  Most of the stuff I pick and sell is breadbox size. The little red radio
is about 5 inches left to right, but that's probably the smallest thing I've shot and my standard setup with a reed background works for most things.

For large items the reed background works too as it is 7 feet tall and 5 feet wide, so an item has to be pretty big to get outside those parameters.

Things like pressure washers I usually put in a paved setting with some greenbelt area behind for color contrast and "life".

Pics do it...that's for sure...the sharper the better.