A lot of coming and going. I hear old timers who are closing their stores cause they aren't making money like they use to, but then there are newbies opening up stores all over the place.

I got a Bose sub-woofer in the garage right now, but don't have the wires or radio/stereo to test it. 

I also had some Bose computer speakers I sold in a lot with other speakers, probably shouldn't have done that. 

My units tend to be full of ephemera! and Fn other junk too! Seriously though, I did find a new chanel (perfume) history book i'm holding back for my retirement years and hoping it will be worth something then.

Ahh Man, StorMe is gone?! He never would take me up on that offer to run actions together since we are close enough. (geographically, before anyone gets any ideas).

So far for the month of September crowds seem to be falling off. Of course we haven't had any of our big caravan runs yet so i'm sure the crowds will return for those. Prices seem to be coming down on certain units. It looks like the crowd has finally figured out to not bid up the common garbage, flea market, trash bag units. Those types have been getting bid down the last couple of weeks. On the other hand, any unit that looks like a potential "jackpot" are still being bid up.

Recent auction looked like this.

Unit #1 $50
Unit #2 $20
Unit #3 $100
Unit #4 no bid
Unit #5 $1500 

Can't say this is a trend, but it looks like most of the current auction bidders have had their taste of losing money or working for nothing on the low end units, but the crowd isn't ready to "let" somebody else get a good unit at a good price yet, so when a nice one comes up, many go "all in".

License plates go on the wall of the shed. Yearbooks, high-middle-elementary school go back with the personals, College & University & Military sometimes get sold at flea market or Ebay.

All right forumers, this is a new term described by yours truly. Many of you may have another term for it.

Type of auction goers? We've described the lookie loos, we all know what newbies are, then there's old timers and vets, but what about the Yo-Yos?

Yo-Yo: Auction attendee who generally is wanting to bid on and win units, and typically does but for the most part is not able to make enough money per unit to stay in the auction scene so they pop in and out of the auction scene from time to time most likely in an effort to feel out the crowd and auctions to see if prices on units and bidding have come down enough on units so THEY can make money buying storage units. Unknown to these Yo-Yos but they are one of the contributing factors as to way prices stay elevated and all the regulars can't get into a rhythm and relationship where they are respectfully bidding in a way that everyone can win the units they want at a price that most everyone can make money on.

2 primary types of Yo-Yos.

1. TV show newbies: These are all the folks who came out at some point during the madness of the TV shows to try their hand at storage auctions. The vast majority got burned and went back home with their tails between their legs but there is a small percentage that keeps lingering around, trying to get back in, just waiting for prices to come down.

2. Pushed out vets: These are the folks who got knocked out by the high prices during the TV shows but really have not found any other employment or just love doing storage auctions and or don't know how to do anything else (One could argue if they really knew what they were doing they would not have been knocked out, but that's a different topic). Every now and again they come back to the auctions looking to re-establish themselves but alas prices still too high so they disappear once more.

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