Last auction had very nice tool locker and was sold for $1500, and it sucks I didn't bring that much money with me, cuz I would bought it all day long. Very nice learning experience

It's better to have too many jackets on when it's cold; you can always take some off.

It's better to take more money than you think you'll need; you might need it.

Have I ever posted a link to my eBay account?

No.

Sets of four have sold for $100 to $125. Singles have sold for $25 to $40.

Sorry it took so long to respond, I spent the day with my daughter.

http://virtualstorageauction.com/auctions/non-lien-sale-private-seller/killeen-texas-2/

Thanks for the link; next time I look at one I'll copy the url if I want to see it again.

Considering there are over 50,000 storage facilities in the USA there are at least as many answers to your question, but GENERALLY most places will conduct an auction if there are at least 3 people in attendance. I have seen it happen with just 2 buyers there.

It's more likely the auctions would be cancelled "due to weather" (which might or might not cut down on attendance).

A standard thought is "I'll go because no one else will". Many people have that thought and then many show up.

Here's a view of several auctions on VSA. Some of them were test auctions but I think the one at the top was a live auction which expired early on Sunday, Jan 5, 2014. I'm pretty sure this was a real auction because I remember going into it and seeing  a list of several people who had bid on it. I think one of those people was StorageBuyer.



I know the other auctions were test auctions as I drilled down through one of them and it said something to the effect of "do not bid...this is a test auction."

Anyway, is there anyway we can see the outcome of a real auction on VSA whether we were a bidder on that auction or not?  I would think this would be an important feature so that bidders (OR non-bidders) could see if they had won or not and in the case of non-bidders if they had rightly decided NOT to bid based on what they had seen in the photos.

So, is it possible to see an auction's outcome and if so how (especially if one doesn't have the auction # to reference in a search ?

Not the first time this has been done I'm sure, (or the last), but it does have some interesting twists.

http://blog.selfstorage.com/storage-news/storage-unit-love-nest-3451

Live auctions are overrated.

Yet they have succeded for three decades or more, and granted the tech world wasn't ready for them during 20 or so of those years, but the internet has been around since the late 90s in pretty good strength and yet no-one jumped on the idea.

Now there are a number of online auction sites (and probably more regionally) but they still haven't taken hold.

Exploring this here in the forum a few months ago I was very surprised to find how few there were in the Dallas-Ft Worth area and that is one of a half dozen major markets in the USA.

Nope, I'm a die-hard "it won't replace" regular auctions person and I doubt it will ever be a big supplement to the live auctions either.

I think there may be a misunderstanding. I'm not expanding the auction schedule to 50 states, I meant that we're going to be contacting every storage facility in the U.S. about VSA, by phone or email. To save some time, I'm trying to work out a deal with a major storage aggregator to send out a mass email advertisement to storage facilities in their database. Not very personal, but the alternative would cost tens of thousands of dollars and take months to complete.

Yes, I have been buying more units than usual and it has overwhelmed me. I hire people to move the stuff but the time sorting, posting ads on Craigslist, meeting customers, really ads up. Now add in a full time job and I've had very little time for anything else. Yes, I should probably quit buying units for a while and focus on VSA full time, but I love buying storage units. What can I say? That's like telling a dog to quit chasing a cat.

OK, got it. Letting all 56K facilities know about the vsa service.

Now, so I don't again get the wrong idea, do I understand from the last paragraph quoted above that you are doing the following:

1) auction lists for Texas
2) vsa site and development
3) buying lockers
4) "now add in a full-time job" (is this in addition to the 3 other things in this list? If so, what is the nature of the work?