Well, that's the thing this place is a good 30 miles away and the phone book, internet or 411 give a number to a place that used to be in business at that address 5+ years ago. Guess I'll hold on to my money till next week's pods auction they're listing 26 pods up for auction This pods office is regional HQ so all surrounding offices send there pods here to get auctioned off.

The next facility i completely skipped and took my wife to lunch. And when i got back to facility number 7 i was pissed. Someone told me a 10x10 full of old good furniture and dusty boxes went for $350 Anyway turns out this would be my last 6 lockers to see. the other facilities had been payed up. 1st 2nd and 3rd lockers went to whale. All were retail store overstock or close down storage with clothes racks and display cases and boxes of costume jewelery, neck ties and dress shoes. He spent over $1500 per locker so he must have a very good market for those things. And the 4th locker was a facility stuffer locker in which we could go in and poke around before bidding because it was all the stuff they found on site not secured and took it so it wouldn't waste and stuffed it in there for a sale. nothing great some amatuer artwork, four chairs with wrap around lucite backs and a lucite bottom table with a glass top. Went for $500. Last lockers were purely garbage.
So all day I spent $35 on some stuff. sure I got $300 for the Air Jordan's(luck) and will get about $250 out of the rest. Why can't i seem to pull the trigger on bigger fuller lockers? I'm not scared or shy. Maybe cheap but I understand (to make $ it take $) but I just haven't yet. The end for now)

Well I have no comparison when it comes to declining quality in the units but I saw more garbage, particle board furniture and mattresses than i have seen at the dump and i used to be a bulk trash driver for waste management.

The day started at 9am first facility only had one locker a 10x15 with 10 mattresses, a wooden king sleigh bed, 2 sets of metal frame bunk beds and about 35 neatly stacked 2'x2' grocery store boxes. Went for $750 I didn't even offer a bid.

The next two facilities cancelled. The day before each had 12 lockers up for auction, but by that morning all had called or come in to pay. (bummer) That's 24 lockers less than I thought I would see...

The fourth facility had ten lockers for auction. The first three were all the same owner. All 5x10's. First had a mattress jammed in sideways so no-one could see anything but a piss stained mattress. Went for $350? Second had a big china hutch with no drawers and some other things wrapped in synthetic blend blankets. Went for $180. And the third had a lot of stacked professional movers boxes with guess what, the drawers to the hutch from last locker. I knew just what to do. He of course bid very low started at $50. I shot a $150 out and then he definitely knew i was there. We shared one understanding nod, he followed with a $160 and i waived off. I'm new at storage auctions but I'm not a sucker.
The next four 10x10 lockers all were full of garbage and garbage. All no sells. Then they opened a 5x5 that had just a little pile in the corner with a shoe box sticking out it look really rough. Also there was an off brand Ipod dock w/clock and fm radio in plain site. Everyone but me passed on this locker as the auctioneer was about to say no sell I offered him 5$ he immediately sold it to me. Again everyone who stuck around was giggling until i opened the shoe box. There sat a factory new pair of Air Jordan XI's. they were the black patent leather over white with a translucent red sole type. Last I checked these suckers were worth money. Also in the pile was a new in the box digital camera (off brand), two new in the box Emerson electric shavers and two new in package Diamond Style brand 4" masonry cutting wheels. I missed the next two sweeping out my little score.

I will keep going on the story later I have a C-list delivery to make across town Jordan's going bye-bye..

TO BE CONTINUED

Thanks to everyone for you're input. The auction circuit i have here is hit and miss early on in the month but the last weeks in every month i have around 24-34 different auctions to go to within 10 miles of my house. So if i see a lkr worth the investment visible from the door with some other junk i can't see i'll go for her and see what you guys are talking about treasure hunting. But I cannot bring myself to gamble my money on anything but a solid return. I'll chime in regardless if i find the Cortez treasure or just rat poop and porn.

My question is why would all those ppl pass on these items just because they weren't super high end? Doesn't everyone want to make all the money they can. They obviously were sellable. Or am I missing something?