I sure would like to know who's offering 1.8%.

I bank with Rabo Bank here on the West Coast and have been a customer for over 20 years. I truly feel like I got a great deal. I have been paying a lot more for the last 10 years. Who knew my local bank could have saved me so much money over the years? I'm not sure if being a customer helps but it may.

Well that sucks!

LOL Yep the carpet right off of the floor.

There are no wrong answers to this question. I think it depends on how and where you sell. For me with a retail store I want the large units. The more furniture the better. Most buyers in my area sell at the swap meets. They tend to go for the smaller box units. Most of my purchases are made on one or two good large items. I bid according to what I know I can make off of them and everything else should be profit. Not to say I haven't bought several small units but I find for my situation that there is usually more profit in the bigger units for me. With everything there is a learning curve and some risk. You just have to find what makes you the most money.

Crappy month here. Three sales so far. Canceled, canceled and one crappy unit. Bought for $150.00 by another regular. The manager wouldn't take any less than that. Nothing else until May. I've been doing some picking to help keep up inventory in the store.

Alot of facilities around here do their own auctions. Either the manager or the owner does the auction. We have one auctioneer that I dread having to go to. He has only been selling storage units for about a year but has picked up alot of facilities. The last auction was 11 units (most were garbage) and about 50 people. The auction took over three hours. There is no organization. When he opens a unit it is chaos. People pushing and shoving, no lines. Then he starts a $20.00 unit at $100.00 and tries for several minutes before he will come down to a reasonable starting bid. His wife even brought the previous owner of the locker I purchased over to plead for some of his stuff back. Unfortunately I am in a small area and I don't have alot of options so I have to keep dealing with him.   

Always... some of my best selling pieces are re-purposed. You have to get used to thinking outside of the box. Once I got a hutch that went on top of a desk but no desk. Turned it upside down put legs and a top shelf on it. Piece of garbage for most sold for $150.00. Old dark wood dinning table top with no legs got attached to an end table that the top was messed up on and became a coffee table. Sold for $75.00. Again most people would have thrown both away. My modo Recycle, Re-purpose, Reuse.

If you live near the beach a box of rocks comes in just about every locker. I have created a rock garden with all of the rocks and sea shells from the last couple of years. I usually don't have a problem selling the shells but here lately I have collected over 20 large abalone shells. They sell but not as quick as some of the others.
I have gotten a couple of boxes like the one you found. I have a local guy that is the president of the local rock hounds. He gives me great info and helps me price them. They sell really well. Right now I have several fossils up for sale. They won't last long. Good luck with yours and if you need info find a rick guy in your area. I have found that they usually love to talk about rocks.   

I'm finding expensive art to be hard to get rid of. I bought a unit the first of the year that has become know as the "art" unit. It had several very expensive pieces in it. A Fredrick Remington bronze statue worth $5000.00, two John Stobart lithographs worth $700 and $900, two Thomas Kinkades that I have yet to set a value on, 4 hand drawn maps from 1882 worth between $150 and $300 each, and two John Eastmans worth $150 each.
At this point I have put together a slideshow and e-mailed it a couple of weeks ago to several auction houses around the state. I have yet to get any replies. I have also been thinking about contacting some of the local art galleries to see if they would be willing to do a consignment on a few of these pieces.
This unit was a major score and I have made scads of money on it. I don't have to get full value on these items but I am not going to give them away. I also feel that I can hold on to them until the right buyer comes along.