I'm in the back country...or so it seems at times.  None of the companies that I follow and get emails from have gone that route yet.  However, from the limited number of storage auctions around here it seems many of these places don't use auction companies.  For estate, equipment, etc. auctions you don't caravan around so is prob why they have not gotten into it.

We'll due to work and all the lights my 10 mile drive to today's auction took me 25 mins.  So I missed the auction as it was in progresses with the gates closed by time I got there.  Was 4 units up for sale today.  Was a grand total of 5 people there.  So one of them was the guy selling the units and I think 3 bidders as the one lady and guy seemed to be together.  So no crowd at all.  Don't know if that is due to so few lockers, time of day, or what.  Nothing like the saturday auction.  Will have to see how next monday goes with the 3 different sales being at 4, 4:30, and 5.

Ya - I may hit Greenville up next month.  Depending if father wants to check out a travel trailer going up for auction up there next month.  Or if end up taking mother to Cherokee anytime soon.

If your wanting what various lockers are going for you can read the lookey loo thread and I posted a long thread w/ pics and prices from an auction Sat.  If your wondering what is the max people will pay that is all up in the air.  On saturday the units I'd not pay more then $100 for went for more then that.  Other units went for cheap, down to $1.

If I'm new to the area / auctioneer I just keep an eye on him and raise my card / hand many times.  If it's an auctioneer that I know I just look him in the eye and nod my head when bidding.  This is what I do at estate auctions, and the one storage auction I've attended so far.  I can tell you the regulars keep a low profile for the most part.  The guy that won 6 lockers saturday mostly just raised his bid number to the center of his chest.  Was no yelling out or such stuff.

I'm more then a month and half late but found out there will be a season 3.  Is suppose to also have a "LIVE" episode.  Now that one will be interesting if it really is live and not edited like normal.  I thought interest in these shows was going down.

That is a great first unit imo.  So what did you do with the $20 in foreign bills?  Ask as depending what they were those could be valuable also, or at least worth 5-10 bucks depending on the condition, country, etc.

CopiaVita has a point.  You really should factor in at least your variable cost (dump fees, postage, extra gas).  To me you would already have some sunk cost like lunch, drinks, gas for initial trip that you could include or not in your tally.  I don't since I'd be buying lunch and gas anyways for the trip to the auction no matter if won a unit or not.  But, I'm not doing this as a buisness.  If father decides to really get into this and we start buying under the buinesess license then we will keep better records.  Just don't try to claim any loss on your taxes if you are doing this as a hobby.  Plus, if you really start making some money better report the extra income not matter how much it sucks to pay the IRS.