Your supposed to pay taxes on any and all income. If your just selling things around the house and you don't profit from the sale no need to report, storage winnings your supposed to report earnings.

As far as ebay/paypal goes they won't issue you a 1099 until you do 20k in sales and over 200 sales total. Its not one or the other both those need to be met.

Keep in mind the easier an auction is to find out about teh more people will be there.

I find the smaller facilities who don't use auctioneers and often have silden/sealed bid auctions are the best ones to attend.

Anything found on auctionzip or similar places are going to be flooded with people.

I think most people who win a unit would be delighted to sell some stuff immediately. If you buy the furniture immediately following the auction it saves them the time of finding a buyer and they don't even  have to move the stuff.

Offer somewhat fair prices though. Just b/c you know the guy got the unit for $300 doesn't mean he'll take $50 for a nice couch when he could take it home and sell it on CL for $300 and recoup the entire cost of the unit depending upon what the piece is.

You may find some deals better than CL since your saving the person at the auction the trouble of moving, listing and selling the time but realize how many units you may have to go watch before finding a piece of furniture you like.

Lots of furniture in units is cheap ikea type stuff or old and junky. If there's nice stuff who's to say it goes with the design of your home or you even like it.

If your not really picky about design though and just want a couch for a rec room in the basemet or something like that I think it could work out well though.

I'm pretty sure this is for all sellers. Ebay is currently doing $0 listing fees and add buy it now for free as well.

I like to take advantage of these weeks and list high dollar items. Other times you hate to list something for a few hundred bucks have it not sell and you still owe ebay $5 or so.

Take advantage of these free weeks where you can list for top dollar and not owe anything if it doesn't sell. Buy it now is also a nice thing to add that in normal times I never pay extra for.

On those circuit style auctions why does the auctioneer take an hour and a half to make it to the next facility after the rest of us have arrived.

What do you ladies do to your panties and why are you storing them...disgusting!!!

I don't mean to be rude or a pessimist but if you think it's too much work calling a few dozen storage facilities the storage auction game is not for you.

Once you buy a unit it's a lot of work cleaning it out and organizing. Then it's calling around to dozens of resale shops, putting ads on craigslist and having to return calls and emails to sell your merchandise.

It's not like storage wars where you buy a unit with a piece worth 10k, take it to your expert they give you 7k and you walk away rich.

Personally I write a form letter asking a facility to put me on a call or email list about future auctions. Stamps are expensive at 0.44 cents a piece but I am able to use free postage at work.

It's really not that difficult to call around. Get out the phone book and go ddown the line, ask if there's upcomming auctions, if so they will notify you, if not they will often ask if you'd like to be put on a contact list.

I havn't sold much or checked out my furn on craigslist as of late but in the past it moved pretty easily. If its not moving its probably priced too high.

Things may have slowed down overall though. I had a guy from cl over at my place to buy a bamboo chair. He wound up buying a bunch of plates and cookware from me and inquired about my roomates couch in our gargage which my roomate wasn't even wanting to sell. I told him I'd ask my roomate.

He wound up offering $100 and I laughed at him as the couch is a year old most of that time been in a couch bag in my garage. he then said he's been watching cl and nothing is moving and offered $200.

In the past when you could pick up units for $35 with nice furniture it was easy, try to get top dollar and if your stlll sitting on it a few weeks later let it go dirt cheap and still make a buck. With many unit prices inflated or when buying second hand you risk getting into it at a price where you either gotta sit on stuff forever waiting for the right price or you don't make all your money back.

If you pay over $900 for 4 old mattresses and nothing else...

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