Good point, also thanks for the tip on the radio the other day. I wound up looking up bing crosby special and found a ton of stuff bout these radios.

Though I'm not giong to get rich off of it should get me a decent buck and seems like there's a pretty big collectors market for them.

I'm probably going to give this one to my grandpa as he likes stuff like this but your right, someone told me it was worth about 75 to 150 if I remember correctly.

I havn't put much time into research but just a quick ebay search shows that $130 seems to be the going price for ones in not working condition so I imagine mine is worth at least that as the radio works, havn't checked the record plalyr yet as I did't even know it was also a record player lol.

Another good point is not only should you now let people tell you value who are buying from you and not only shoudl you not under value items but when your scoping out a unit don't overvalue things.

I see a box of Noritake China for example I could be like yeah I know replacements sells eac piece for like $26 I got over $500 worth of China. The reality of it thoug is that's an inflated price and there's not much of a market for it so you'll be lucky if you can get rid of the whole lot for $26/

One of the guys on our regular runs went down to CA for a couple of weeks and went to some auctions and met him at an auction.  He said he was actually pretty decent in person.  They weren't filming any shows when he was there.  He also met Jerrod at another auction.

Your probably right thats probably more an act for the show. I still don't like him though lol.

I'm sure you all know about this and maybe you've used this tactic as well.

Ebay started charging too many fees so people started trying to roll costs of items into shipping costs as ebay didn't charge final value fee on shipping costs.

Ebay has now stared charging final value fees on the total item price so auction or store cost of item plus shipping.

Sure this stops people from dodging ebay fees but now they have essentially made it so if you put a realistic shipping cost your actually losing money shipping your item.

California
http://freestorageauctionlists.blogspot.com/2011/03/california-storage-auctions-march-april.html

Colorado
http://freestorageauctionlists.blogspot.com/2011/03/colorado-storage-auctions-march-april.html

New Mexico
http://freestorageauctionlists.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-mexico-storage-auctions-march-april.html

TC you seem pretty knowledgable about these. I'll have to post some pics of my specific one and see what you think of it.

If $75 is the price range I'll probably give it to my dad or grandpa as they like this kinda stuff. If I'm able to get a little more maybe try to sell it.

Thanks for the info.

Ducked out of work for a few hours yesterday to check out a couple auctions. One unit was two laundry baskets with a blanket over each nothing else.

Auctioneer tried to start the bidding at $50 nobody bid, I called out $5 and they started there, a guy bid $10, I bid $15 and got the unit.

One basket was full of mosaic bathroom tile probably about 23 sq ft. Looks like expensive stuff to, stuff that in store would be like $18 a sq ft.

The other basket looked under the blanket and there was a Philco 10663 old radio. I found a pic of one online, I'll post pics of mine later. Mine is actually in much better shape than this one. Mine isn't mint but looks like it has had some restoration and it plays

Curious to see what it brings.




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I have to agree. I personally havn't and won't get involved with these types of auctions. I don't trust them I also don't think it makes sense for buyers or for storage facilities.

Also, some facilities in my area have several auctions per month not always a lot of units but several auctions throughout the month. I don't know of any facilites near me that only have one or two per year