Update:  July 15,2012

Have had good luck the last 4 weeks with Clist ads. Sold several big items from the big lkr I got in early May.

HOWEVER, the weirdos continue to be a sometime problem.

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Got a phone call about 9 pm (which I always think is odd for a business call) and guy wants to know if I still have a particular item. It's hard to find, but not valuable (I was asking $30) and he said he lived in "x" city and wanted to know when he could come over to look at it.

Well "x" is 109 miles from me in "y" and beforeI  looked it up after the phone call I had told him it was a good 90 miles one way. His response..."Well, if you haven't sold it by next Saturday, I'm interested."  Imagine a 218 mile round trip at say 20 mpg, that's 11 gallons or so, at $3.55 a gallon here in CA and you come up with about $40 in gas, NOT TO MENTION the roughly 3 to 4 hours of driving....in my book this qualifies this buyer as a total idiot.

EDIT: OH God I am turning into Movieman.... LOL    

Well, there are worse things you could become. You could be running that multi-million dollar storage facility and thrift store combination in Tennessee.  

I'm not movieman with records and awesome memory.....    

The records you could work on...the awesome memory is a gift.



Vintage hand vice picked for $3, sold few days later for $60.

That vintage hand VICE is the kind they used to think would make you blind.
OTHERWISE, it's probably a vintage hand VISE...
  


 

Here's the link to your original post about finding all those wheels.


http://storageauctionforums.com//index.php/topic,2398.0.html

Any one els fed up with people bringing their kids to the auctions?  When we have a few min to look and determin what we want to bid before the auctioneer starts the bidding, there's no time for some oneS kid standing in front of a unit with mommys flashlight and looking to see what's in there. 
Unless the auctioneer wants to wait until the kids get out of the way they should hold off on starting (and sometimes finishing) the bidding.
Rant over

Once you have a good relationship with an auctioneer just ask them to say something to the crowd in general about keeping kids away from the door. The auctioneer will generally comply as it is a common sense thing to do....unless you're a parent who just isn't with the program.

You will also hear here from buyers whose children help them spotting things and even some of whom's children place bids (not sure how legal that is, but it happens as long as a parent is along).

Age makes a difference for the most part (and maturity), but I know what you mean and sometimes I will ask a child (or the parent) "Is this little one bidding?"  They usually get the point but not always.

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The corollary is the parent (ususally a lard-ass, lame-brained mom) who pushes the stroller in front of her and thus is taking up extra space in a "line-up" that goes past the door.  Typically, this mom is using a $1.00 flashlight and a bar-room vocabulary along with her trailer-park trash husband who is scratching with one hand while pulling a cigarette out from behind his ear with the other.  But that's another story.

@movieman-
Maybe you should switch facilities.   Seems like your always b*tching about waiting for people that get lost finding you.....      lol.   

Nope, it's 1 mile from my home and 1/4 block off the freeway exit. As a person goes down the ramp to the intersection, if they look to the right they can see the back wall and roofs of the facility. Make two right turns and they are at the gate.

Add to that the fact that I include a PICTURE MAP of the location and the only logical conclusion is that even though these people can look something up on Clist, they can't (or won't) READ.

And of course it's not all of them...only the STUPID ones are that memorable. 

Jerry Rice #80 San Fransisco 49ers throwback jersey. Came out of $30 unit.

Hey Movieman, interested in the jersey, I'll make you a killer deal! 

It would HAVE to be a killer deal as I would want to resell it !

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As to a good buy lately...it was a piece I bought by "picking"....paid $250 for this tool and sold it for $600.  Sorry, won't reveal what it was....readers here may not be competition at the auctions but they could be on eBay so I don't share info of that nature. Right now I am undercutting two competitors on an item on eBay so don't want to put myself in the position of BEING undercut. 

who cares money was green. 

Yep, they do stretch the limits sometimes, one way or the other. Those back seats on some little cars may fold down and give you access through the trunk, but fitting a rectangular shape into an oval hole can be a problem.

More power to them though if they get it done....and the not helping is always a smart move imo for a number of reasons.