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The Treasure Chest / Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« on: February 01, 2013, 06:05:56 PM »
Since you feel the need to elaborate, I shall too.

First and foremost, the posts you made were hours before I announced the contest making them ineligible.Some of the posts you made were linked to companies that were no longer in business.

Since both the offer and my submitted threads are gone it is a matter of "he said, he said".


Most of the posts were national resources which would have been more appropriately posted in the Multi-State Storage Auction Resources category. Multi-state storage auction resources were excluded from the contest.

Understandable the out of business thread could be deleted. Others (IMO) should have been moved to the national resources area.

If I recall correctly, you were opposed to me disclosing storage auction resources to the public in the first place. Once I did, you tried to make a point by adding several posts in the Texas section. Whether you admit that you did this to spite me, is irrelevant. Had you of made relevant posts in the California resources section, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now.

I was opposed to you posting resources to storage auctions when (as a member, not an owner) you were pushing your Texas business in a wide variety of threads on the forum. Once DREW made a special section for PLUGS, it became a different matter. It is one thing to put such "pushes" in a signature line and another to put them as links in irrelevant thread areas to solicit Texas business.

There was no point in my posting sources to California auction sources as you had already done so at the time I posted the Texas sources. The essential difference is IMO that you could delete what I had contributed but I could not delete what you had contributed.



You know that I appreciate you, just like I appreciate every other member that contributes to this forum. I would like to continue incentives like cash and gift cards to make the forum a little more exciting and to continue it's growth. Hopefully, we'll see a better response this go around. If the incentives don't help, they'll go away. If they do work, they'll get bigger and better.

It will be interesting to see who and how many contribute to the Treasure Chest area.

In the section just above this sentence the RED text are Travis' original statements and the BLUE text represents my response to those points.

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The Treasure Chest / Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« on: February 01, 2013, 05:10:26 PM »
It's not my fault no one participated except one person who was only trying to spite me. BTW, you should get that cough checked out, it sounds serious.

So if I read the above quote correctly:

1) Only one person (me) contributed links to "sources" in the entire section during the time when you first
announced the $100 prize.

2) You deleted the sources I contributed because you thought I was trying to "spite" you by contributing sources (like yours) that were available in Texas.

Now of course I (and the rest of us here) don't have the ability to delete posts made by anyone else, but then that's what goes along with owning the forum I guess. Doesn't sound "right" to me, but what do I know. I'm just the poor schmuck who's been contributing here for over two years, and saying it like it is whether it was Drew or you at the helm.

I guess the final "blow" was when you then cancelled your entire offer after it had been running for 10 days. I can only assume you didn't want to give $100 to anyone who could have contributed as few as ONE source (since no one was contributing at all during that time).

You and I have had our difference from time to time Travis (before and after you owned the forum) but I have to tell you that took the cake....and then you later ask me for favors (which I won't mention in detail here) as I like to think I am above that degree of response.

So, now that the "official" rules have been posted, I feel I (and others) might be able to contribute and expect the "prize" would actually be given.


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The Treasure Chest / Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« on: February 01, 2013, 02:19:36 PM »
Uh oh, get ready for another round of Movieman news posts.

That's why the rules need to be defined. The last time an offer was made like this it was for $100 and my "legitimate" links to sources in Texas were deleted (cough, cough) and the offer was taken off the books completely.

Oh well.


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The Treasure Chest / Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« on: February 01, 2013, 02:17:19 PM »
Please define "legitimate" and then stick by your definition. Changing the "rules" 10 days into the competition isn't "kosher".


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I had a guy make an 800 mile round trip to buy a $400 item I listed on Craigslist.

It was nutty to me that he would do it, but the color of his Benjamins was a sight to behold.

Details are in reply #78 at link below.

http://storageauctionforums.com/craigslist/are-cl-buyers-really-nuts-or-what/75/

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Stories about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Scene #1...January, 2013
« on: February 01, 2013, 08:59:31 AM »
Went to one auction yesterday (Thursday, Jan 31) and crowd at this location was at about 40...a good half of them were regulars and those were the people who bought maybe 7 of 8 lockers.

Most interesting lkrs were 5 that looked like they had the remnants of a surplus sale somewhere. Lots of old electronics, old creme-colored computer towers, etc.

I've done well with those in the past but I didn't bid on one of these lockers....just didn't want to do the work. Call it lazy if you will, but I have been spoiled by picking the last few months and dump runs and heavy lifting are becoming a thing of the past.

One lkr DID have about eight  good looking boxes but I guess the frig and freezer turned me off...not to mention the $400 plus one of the "gamblers" paid for it....aside from the two bulky refrigerator items that works out to $50 a box.

I've always liked the facility and have done well there over the years, but things change (or I've changed) and I'm not the competitor I used to be....buying has evolved for me...it's got to be a great locker for me to buy it anymore.


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Stories about Storage Auctions / Auction Scene #2...February, 2013
« on: February 01, 2013, 08:51:46 AM »
Time just keeps zooming by and here we are in February, 2013.

It's a Friday and hopefully this will lead some of you to storage auctions around the country. Let us know what auctions were like on this first day of Feb.


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LOL! Based on thier profits, it's either in Beverly Hills, or Dubai City!

Dubai sounds right !


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Mike Braiotta's Blog / Re: Mike From Storage Wars NY
« on: January 31, 2013, 09:50:42 AM »
If I am not mistaken we have seen four episodes from New York.

How many more have been produced and when can we expect to see them?


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Does anyone know where the Haff Ton Pawn Shop is located and if so have you been there?

Straight from Ton's mouth about 7:30 am Pacfic time, 1/31/2013


where is your store? Culver city? Malibu?
 Back lot of spike TV studio?

Like · · 9 hours ago


Ton jones Funny .......we are not going to disclose the location at this time due to the fact it is a working shop

15 minutes ago · Like

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The other night I was watching Storage Wars Texas and Vic said something that caught my attention. He noticed that the unit had a few different locks inside that had been cut. Obviously, the tenant had been late on payments in the past and had got current on their rent. This could be a strong indicator that there is something valuable in the unit.

Several thoughts on this:

1) The existence of multiple cut locks INSIDE the lkr says the frm locker owner paid up
 and then got in, probably took out at least SOME valuables before putting on his second lock.

2) If there are THREE cut locks inside it means they defaulted twice and had SEVERAL opportunites to get good stuff out.

3) Sure there may be some good stuff left, but look at points 1 and 2 above and think about it. To me it’s a RED FLAG, not a suggestion of goodies left in there.

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Stories about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Scene #1...January, 2013
« on: January 30, 2013, 09:57:27 AM »
Finally made some auction purchases in January, 2013, BUT......not lockers.

Again the piece by piece approach is working. I went to a piece by piece auction featuring 20 lockers and YES it did take six hours but I spent over $200 and got what I think will convert to 2.5 times the money.

Several years ago I couldn't stand this approach and thought it was a waste of time, but with prices and the trash value of lockers in my area being prohibitive right now (at least to me) I'm liking this approach better all the time.

YES, you have to get used to watching stuff come out of a locker and being spread in the "street" between lkr rows, but just like buying a full lkr, you can sometimes tell immediately if it will be a good one or a loser as the stuff spreads out.

One thing I have noticed is that more and more the regular storage lkr buyers are starting to appear at these things and YES this can even affect prices HERE as some of the dummies who pay too much for a full lkr also pay too much for one-at-a-time items.

The main advantages are:

1) buying what you want
2) NOT getting all the non-sellable stuff (burned pots/pans, broken (non-repairable) items
3) NOT getting outright trash
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So, the month is ending on an OK note, but nothing like it was prior to December, 2010 !

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Depends on:

1) amount of damage
2) whether damage is cosmetic or affects performance
3) if I CAN repair it
4) if it is WORTH time, effort, expense
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I only buy lkrs with furniture when I can truly see it is high quality stuff AND if I see A LOT of smalls to go along with it.

Then, I sell the big furniture right out of the lkr after having rented the auction lkr for a month at a STEEP discount.

Sure, you can make big money on furniture but you have to have a place to store it, a way to move it, people to help you move it, etc, etc.

Thanks, but I will stick with "smalls" for the most part.

*****

As to prices...the flooding (where-ever) would certainly open up the furniture (and other) markets. But on the last two BIG nice pieces of furniture I got (a dining room set and a mission style hutch) I got $400 each for pieces that would have been $1,000 plus at retail. Again, sold them out of the lkr so I didn't have to move or store them elsewhere. This in central California.

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I thought about placing individual pictures of thousands of celebrity $1 bills, but instead I'll do it this way.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=celebrity+dollar+bill&_sacat=0&_from=R40

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