This is a question for those of you who "maximize" your profits from each locker.


What is not sellable?

I have, but didn't amount to much. More valuable have been the roughly $75 in new stamps found in three lkrs over nine years.  They are just like money despite the fact I only pay about 5 bills a month with a check.

Personally, I'm going to start working on my resolution list which includes just plain cleaning house of acculated stuff I haven't taken the time to either fix, list or otherwise sell ! 

Today was crazy and I am still stunned!

Talk about a merry Christmas !  Lkrs #4 and #5 are fantastic !  You got TWO one-in-a-hundred at one sitting. You might as well stay at home for the next month....the chances of doing well in the next "x" lockers have just gone down.

This is what we all hope for...that and the small crowd. If the crowd had been bigger they still would have been great lkrs but the small crowd was icing on the cake.

Just went to the U-Ship website and looked over a map with green and red pins designating from/to.

As I explored the map and the website I found THEY DO HAVE a place where the carriers can ask questions of the shippers.  Here's a cut and paste on one item...shows questions asked by several carriers.



12/23/2012

Hello shipper let me start by introducing my self, my name is Joe with Average Joe's Relocators. I would love to do this move for you, is your inventory list complete or do you have an inventory list yet, will there be someone at the pick up and drop off that can help, is there any stairs involved at the pick up or drop off, do you have a budget in mind, and what days do you need it pick up and delivered. Please let me know if we can work something out thank you.


Question:
12/24/2012

can you secure the item to a palelt?.


Question:
12/24/2012

Hello i will be going down on the 27th and can make the drop off on the same day the range will be secured inside a box truck keeped dry, are there any stairs and will be be any help there to put where you would like it?.


Question:
12/25/2012

By any chance could this item be picked up on the 30th for delivery on the 31st? Thank you, Raul. (luarhh).


Question:
12/26/2012

I see your preferred pick up date has passed. I am available to do this from 12/28-1/2. Please let me know if those dates work for you. Thanks. Allen(MoverVet)

Do you think that this forum is an appropriate gauge?

I'm not dealing with forum stats per se (though our view is not as capable as yours) but with a gut feeling about what I'm seeing here and who is posting it. It's not the broad spectrum of people posting as it used to be even though the quantity of people available to post has gone up. I know that in general the number of members a forum has always seems to be representd by a much smaller number; so if we have 2,900 members it's not uncommon for 2,800 of them not to post.

Here's a GoogleTrend printout from 2 pm Pacific Time on 12/28/2012 respresenting the decline in the number of Google searches done on the words "Storage Auction". Overall it is down from Jan 1, 2012.

You may have to scroll to the right a bit within the graphic to see the late December figure is at 40 of the 100 figure on January 1, 2012.

I completely UNDERSTAND why YOU are COMFORTABLE with THAT definition.

And I understand why YOU are comfortable with the fact that I am comfortable with that defintion.

But, I am a little confused about who's on first. 

Then why were you trashing the shippers and the show?
What were you basing your opinion on...ignorance?

Yes, I was basing my opinion on ignorance.

Or, put another way, it was an OPINION.  In my OPINION it is stupid for those shippers to agree to something when they don't have all the facts of the delivery.

I didn't feel like checking out the website because I have no interest in becoming a free-lance shipper, but if I did have any interest it would have been squelched if I saw I had to operate with minimal information on what was required.

In my OPINION the show, just like Storage Wars, is aiming at entertainment and therefore they don't show us any but the OUT OF THE ORDINARY hauls and only show us the hauls that are going to create problems and therefore conflict and ENTERTAINMENT.

I actually enjoy seeing the guys go at it and I think the character ROY is quite good...he seems to be a problem solver for any load though he as well as the others often comes up against it when it gets right down to it and sometimes (just like on Storage Wars) loses money in his efforts.

Edit:

Here are a couple of definitions which might help in ANY discussion, here or elsewhere:


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ig·no·rance 

/ˈignərəns/

Noun

Lack of knowledge or information: "he acted in ignorance of basic procedures".


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o·pin·ion 

/əˈpinyən/

Noun

1.A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
2.The beliefs or views of a large number or majority of people about a particular thing.

Synonyms
view - judgement - judgment - mind - notion - idea

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I especially like the first definition (above) of OPINION.