Went to one auction today by the same auctioneer who had a crowd of 200 a few days ago. This time one of his helpers was doing it and only about 30 people there with maybe 8 of us who are regulars.

Kind of forgot the details on most of the 7 lkrs, but I got a 10x10 for $425 which was lkr 2 of 2 owned next to each other by the same tenant. The other one sold for only $55 ! Knew we probably have some mixed furn pieces and we did. I sold the other buyer a few small peices for $25 so lkr only cost me $400 I guess.

Looks like its going to come out pretty good though nothing special...maybe $200 profit...I'll take it! 

Then we went on to three 5x10s. First one had about 6 cardboard boxes and 2 totes. Clean but sparse. I think it went for $85...total gamble.  Next was packed all the way 'round and went for $650....made my 10x10 look pretty good. Nothing in the $650 showed as special, just PACKED. Third 5 x 10 was pretty much nothing and went for $75.

So, it continues....I just STRUCK while the iron was hot for good quantity and OK quality at what anymore was a reasonable price. This was my first lkr of the new year and I think I attended 3 or 4 auctions and saw maybe 40 lkrs.

Here's some more on a lkr I mentioned a couple of post up from here. I left the auction before it sold, but a friend stayed for a while.

The 5th lkr was opened from both ends..a 10 x 20 with an aisle down the middle. One end was full of exercise equipment and the other nothing special. Auctioneer let people walk through and look at stuff. I left before bidding started.

My friend watched this thing progress, but he LEFT when it hit $1,200 and was still going.  The madness continues with a new batch of crazies.

went to one of my regular auctions spots and was surprised the turnout wasn't horrendous.  3 Units up for auction all 10X10s:

 Looks like i'm going to be lucky to break even with this damn thing.

They can throw you for a loop no matter how closely you think you have looked...that's just part of the biz.

Haven't watched AH since SW started on the same night about 3 weeks ago. Be interesting to see if AH numbers go down because of that programming move on the part of A&E.

The AH boys just find too many great things...I don't even care if they are re-enactments of things they have found in the past; a good disclaimer at the beginning of the show (assume that's still on), but show me one of the 80% that don't make 10K sometime...hell, I'd be happy to see them pawning the rest of the stuff off on some other buyers, or paying someone to make the dump run, but until that happens (and pigs fly) I'll go with the less fake (but still fake) SW episodes.

wait, youre paying 15 bucks a month for 250 GIGS or 250 MEGS?

i ask because i have an ATT DSL line and i pay 20 a month for 150 gigs... and i am seriously doubting that youre getting 250 gigs for that price. but if you are... thats.. awesome...

And you would be right !

It is 250 MEGS !   I'll go back and change it in the other posts above.  So far in the 2nd month I've only used 13 MB so the 250 MB looks like a winning amount for me. If it HAD BEEN GB, then I could have watched whole movies out in the middle of the wilderness, but when I'm there I'm not in a movie mode anyway !

Thanks for catching that...and stay away from those CANS !

Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012...

The "barracuda" is back....

Barry rides in on a scooter and sets up free donuts for the crowd....

No Brandi and Jarrod.

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First lkr...lot of stuff...quality ? Maybe not.
Dave bids Darrell up...Darrell gets it for $1.9K.

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Nabila.....gets the next one for $500 after Dave bid her up a couple of times.

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A 5x 10 with hardly anything in it. Barry gets it for $2.50....if all goes as usual it will have a $250 item in a drawer.

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Darrel's $1950 lkr has....collectibles, lawn mower...some special bear...worth $1500. That's a lot of beanie babies.
Estimate for value....$3800.

Barry's cheapie...drawer contains...glass containers for catching flies....valued...$1,550 to $2,000. Hell I was only off on my value guess by a factor of 10...I guessed $250 before I knew what was in the drawer.

Nibala....scores an estimated value of $???....with currency and coins all in plastic !  All money worth...about $1900 and she made about $1,200 profit.

Is there a re-run of shipping wars on anywhere?  I enjoyed that more this evening !


Darrel's bear...worth $800.

To: The Jerk

Sounds like you are well under way. Getting the locker may be your first stumble as things don't always go according to plan.

Other than that my only word of advice to someone who calls himself "The Jerk" is...."Stay away from the oil cans!"