Sometimes thats all you can do to clear space so you can buy more units.

Well I figured I had some beginner's luck with my first unit.  It had a jewelry box and some cool antiques and I only paid $280 and tripled my money on it.

So, I went to another great auction this week and won another for $250.  There were over 26 units up for auction!  There were only about 40 bidders.  Some people bought several units and I stayed clear of the larger ones since I am not ready for those yet.  Anyways, what caught my eye was what appeared to be an antique clock.  I figured with one antique there would be more.  Unfortunately what I thought was an antique was not.  It had a battery that was corroded.  Hmmmm.  Also, it was packed with old stuffed animals with rat feces all over them.  What is up with the stuffed animals?  Why in the heck do people pay money to store that crap?  I like fuzzy cute things but after digging through bag after bag of stuffed dirty toys I have never hated them as much as I do now! The only good things in the locker were several Marine Corp uniforms, which I am trying to sell online, one WW2 Navy Crackerjack uniform (Might sell for some good money) and some china.  Any advice as to where to sell china?  I heard replacements LTD did not pay well?  I might go with them anyways since I am not sure what else to do with the china.  It is not a complete set just cups and saucers.  Sigh.  I guess some units are just better than others.  I kind of figured.

Have never gone in the snow, but here when its rainy out the crowds are the same if not more! Everyone thinks what you are thinking that maybe no one will come out because of the weather! Usually not true!

Blair Auction used to be one of my favorite auctioneers to follow on auction days. They were the first to run it as kind of a circuit all on the same day in my area. The auctioneer they used to have in Chicago was a cool guy too.

He wound up leaving the company and starting his own auction company, also took most of their clients as well. He's the guy who is now updating the auction route on twitter which I think is a cool idea.

The problem with blair is they have too big a following and do a good job of making their auctions known to people so auctions tend to have big crowds.

Yeah I hate those days when people are bidding like idiots. I saw a guy pay over a grand for a unit with 4 mattresses and nothing else at a blair auction. One I recently attended a guy paid $1400 for a unit that had a painters tarp strung across the frnot you coudlnt see a single thing in the unit. I'm all for taking chances and riskvsreward but thats just dumb in my opinion.

I love watching storage wars. The biggest thing I don't like about the show is when they rattle off the prices they can get for the stuff and I that point I begin yelling BS at my TV set. I also hate it when they calculate the profit at the end of the show and refuse to include labor costs, transportation costs, dump fees, etc.

I would also like to know how Barry, in his Jaguar or other non-realistic storage-buyer car, transports his locker finds. Does he hire someone to haul it all off? Does he cherry pick and give the rest to someone? How does he get it off the premises and where does he take it?

I ran into this auctioneer yesterday here in  northern California and he said they sold 26 units for a total of about $16,000. At his commission of 20% that's $3,200 into his account.

No doubt about it, the auctioneers are happy with the crowds and prices !