Me? I sold the contents of 5 junky units this week. At least now I know where they went.

Couldn't have been me, only 3 of the 5 units I bought were junk. 

Today at the flea market, I was able to save $65 worth of sales thanks to my mobile payment gateway. Another thing you'll want to consider, if you're meeting people for sales ala craigslist, is the safety of accepting credit cards. You carry no cash, people have no reason for funny business. One time, I sold a modem on craigslist for $40. The guy brought $80 in the form of 1 $50 bill 1 $20 bill and 1 $10 bill. He said "I got $50 if you got change, or $30 if you don't." I took the $30 because I had no change. This was before the invention of mobile payment gateways. Or at least before they were widely available.

Oldest scam in the book. Knowing the price of an item they are coming to be and then being inexplicably short, or needing to break a large bill. I don't play that no more, happens to often. I always have change to break anything up and if they pull the I brought $10, $20, $50 too little game; I tell them where the nearest ATM machine is. Most of the time they just run to the ATM but sometimes they luckily "find" that extra money in the car. Wow! what a coincidence. 

Every now and then, you'll come across merchandise that technically should be turned into the police. But is it worth the risk of having your merchandise seized? Here are a couple of hypotheticals.

Let's say you find a really nice computer but you also find the previous owner's kiddie porn collection. Do you wipe the computer clean and resell it or do you turn it in to the police for evidence and inevitably lose your property?

Another example - Firearms - legally, your supposed to turn them in to the authorities when you find them in a storage unit. If they come back clean, they're supposed to give them back to you assuming you can legally own a firearm. But if the firearm has been reported stolen or used in a crime, they'll keep it and you lose the profit from the sale of that firearm. Worth the risk?

Travis, I think we've beat this camel to death a number of times on various threads....

Hypothetical question: What if the owner of the online forum you belong to is a snitch for the FBI? Would you keep posting comments that might cause an investigation? 

I was super excited when I saw this program roll out. Selling internationally opens itup to a whole new set of buyers and certain items sell bettter outside the US than in. My biggest reason not wanting to sell outside the US is people get mad about customs holding packages toolongwhich is out of our control as a seller but they still hold us responsible. I like with this program how once we ship it to ebay its their problem.

Unfortunately my product category isn't eligible for this program

Luckily, storage auction junk is 

Absolutely not, never in a million years. There are two things in this world that I hate doing. One is painting, the second is writing.

I can tell how much you hate writing by how INactive you are in this forum. 

Shouldn't you be out buying storage units? Your never going to catch Movieman anyway! 

You may or may not have gotten this email from eBay...depends on your level of activity, etc.

Look at the number of free ads they offered me. It would take many 24 hour days of work to post that many unless they were the "similar" kinds items and still one could "never" do it.   What are they thinking ?

Especially since you have so many more important things to do like starting topics, & posting comments on this forum! 

That was a common gag/dare at house parties back in my day, before there even was a YouTube. People fell for it then and people fall for it now. Next video should be "I dare you/(bet you can't) to chug/drink a gallon of milk in one sitting."

I couple of questions HomeGrown,

Is he a seasoned vet and are you a relative newbie? or are you more a regular and he a newbie? It seems like with a childish response like 825! Now go away already! he is not a professional.

My hunches are, he is a seasoned regular (although not a professsional) and you are bidding on units in his "sweet spot" thereby creating competition for him. In smaller markets, just showing up to certain auctions is infringing on someones sweet spot. You also stand out in the crowd, so you might be drawing more attention then normal 6'4" tall, 350 lbs.?

It's typical for vets to try to single a couple of newbies who they think have potential to be long-term competition and try to weed them out by running them up. It's all fair as far as i'm concerned but the "Now go away already!" is a bit much. I know you have to fight with the ammo you got, and you said you bid as high as your budget would allow, I would just suggest keep doing what your doing, and when he bids on units you run him up.

The one sure fire way to get old-timers and newbies off your back is to make them pay big time on everything they bid on. Yea, they might drop a few units on you, but just smile and keep coming back. The other way to send a meesage is to go BIG on some units, even ones your nemesis isn't bidding on. This is a gamble, and you have to be willing to lose some money, but it sends a clear message that you have money to spend (and lose) so 1. you can't be intimidated by being run up, 2. You can make life miserable for everyone else.

The bad news with this technique is you will lose money, and potentially a lot of money. The good news is you should be able to get your nemesis and other knats off your balls within a couple of months instead of induring the thousand cuts of death from this guy and others for the next year, 2 years, however long you plan to do this.

Here is what I would do to your "friend". Next time he is bidding on a unit, assuming it's a slow auctioneer, walk right up to him and say "Oh, your bidding on this unit?" Then drop the maximum you would be willing to pay for the unit right there. For instance say the bid is at $200 and the most you would consider paying is $800, then walk right up to him and bid "$800!" Now he has to go $825 or $850 to win it. Don't do it every time though, do it a couple of times then leave him alone cause he will try to drop a unit on you. Now he never knows when you are going to blow the bid up!

If he's got any sense he will move on to messing with someone else. 

Good Luck!