A good relating of the facts of the business.  Would have been even better with your reckoning on the other 7 lockers you got !

Anyway, hopefully some of the real newbies who visit this forum will read it and get a better idea of what is really happening "off screen".

oh yeah~back to MovieMan~we have a newbie with deep pockets that drives a big Ford duel cab and his license plate reads (and I kid you not) 'wowfctr'   

With a plate like that the newbie would be dead meat in my area. I alone would take him skyward in bidding and I KNOW a few others would join in.

PODS! seem to have the best stuff due to people pack pods at there homes and they keep filling them up day after day.

On the other hand, once they are filled at home and transported by the Pods people to a warehouse, they are THEN pretty inaccessible. SO, it's a two-edged sword. If they put really nice stuff in there (at home) it will be hard for them to pull it out at random and that's good for us. Their container may be 50 feet up in the air and hopefully NOT in the middle of a three stack row.

The other side of that sword is that they MAY NOT put super nice stuff in there knowing it will be hard to access.

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On a related note: went to a vault sale at a non-pod facility; same idea though, break open the front panel to show the insides. These typically went HIGH even before the newbies showed up, and often were just like any other lkr from what I heard...I never got one due to the prices.

There may be some truth to the idea that these are packed by people on one side of the country and moved a long distance. Several of the vaults I saw at one sale (Mayflower) were stamped ITALY all over the place, and the prices were outrageous because people thought there was going to be lots of valuables in them.

Talking to the buyers who got them....turns out they were military (and low end troops at that) who just shipped all their crap back to the states. Now if had been a colonel or general it might have been a different story, but then those guys probably wouldn't have defaulted now would they.

I just don't get the whole appeal of buying  a lkr in this manner.

If you live far enough away to have to bid on it like this and with such a limited way of looking at it (through photos) what can you truly expect when you get there and what expenses would you incur from the distant commute.

On the other hand, if you live close enough to it, can you go look at it?   Just don't get the appeal, but I haven't really checked it out that much. Seems like it's only happening in a couple of places.

Happy August !

Going to be 100+ in my area for the next few days ! Yikes...starts out at maybe 55 to 60 degrees and jumps 50 degrees...what's up with that?

Anyway, another new month upon us. No new auctions this week for me...couple next week.  Meanwhile, "picking" is doing well.

Really? Gee, you've got a lot of lazy people around you. I could sell used working treadmills for $200 all day long without breaking a sweat.

At the Salvation Army as-is auction I go to all kinds of exercise equipment pop-up regularly and sell for $10 to $20.
One guy who sells near me at the flea market always has one or two on hand; sometimes they go quickly other times he has them there for a couple of weeks (if they are gone the next time I see him I don't know what happened to them).

I bought one elliptical for $20 and sold it for $100 on Clist. It retails for about $350, so I might have been able to get more, but oh well.

Our country has a huge number of obese people (just look around) and a huge number of fitness gyms too !

Went to two auctions today 15 miles apart. Same management company.

Facility #1:

Two lockers. First a 10 x 15 showing a double door fridge, a two layer (big) Craftsman tool box set. Three drawers were partially open and empty. Flip top was open (why?) and showed some content.  Other than that maybe 6 boxes, not much else.

Only 8 of us there with 5 being regulars. A regular got it for $750....said he wanted fridge for his daughter.

Other unit was a 10 x 5...junk. Went for $40. Later the regular buyer told me it was all crap. Blowmolded toolboxes empty.

Facility #2:

One and half hours later, 15 miles away. 3 lkrs and a motorhome.  Lkr 1 the best: clean with maybe 8 boxes showing and well labled, 6 boxes broken down flat (would like to have had what WAS in them in the past), a small couch, not much more. This 10 x 10 the regulars would have paid $250 to $300 and it went for $425.

Second lkr I can't even remember. Third looked familiar and when talking to one of the other regulars we agreed it belonged to a sometime flea market seller. It was a 10 x 30 and only full along the walls with a wide aisle down the middle. Not really ANYTHING of value showing. I had seen this one before as the owner and I are somewhat friendly. He had this lkr here when I got the Safe locker here last November.

Anyway, I walked to the shade and THERE HE WAS ! Talked to him for a minute and he said he owed $825 on it. I would have helped him reclaim it if it was in the $400 area, but not going to risk my $800 on this guy, especially since I saw nothing I wanted. I told him I thought it would go for $500 but some newbie REALLY LIKED IT and paid $725.

So, no overage coming to the frm owner (too bad) and he was out his stuff and whatever he had paid on it before defaulting.  

Motorhome story in next post.

Hey guys and gals.... Sorry been out of the forum.... Not like you guys missed me are anything....

We did miss you !  When you consider there are only 5 to 10 of us post on any regular basis, the loss of one is a lot !

Welcome back nurse ! (and now you're leaving again...they do have the internet..and auctions...in Maine).