Do you offer the big stuff to other bidders right there on the spot, or do you go thru it all and offer it to them later?

Yep, that would be good!  Gold/silver ad money especially easy to convert...to money !

Guns...a problem to sell in some states. Safes....mostly empty or just "important" papers.

Safes if they are older models can be gold, i have a locksmith that buys tem from me. I once cleaned out an estate, and found a safe from 1934, it sold for 600 dollars. So safes made before 1950 will bring good cash.

I do agree that a lot of the new people will weed them selves out. For example, I have been a paranormal investigator for years. When Ghost Hunters came out, the field was FLOODED with people who thought it was just going into somebodys house and finding ghosts.

What they quickly learned that you have a ton of work to do, let alone all the people who have legitimate mental problems as well. The number of ghost groups in the last year or so here in gettysburg has started to drop.

I think this may be the same way with the storage auction scene. People are going to spend a lot of money, and realize that not every locker has a stash of rare gold coins in it.

I can see your point, but there is one huge difference. People do not do ghost hunting for a living, they do not depend on that as they way of income. Alot of the regulars/old guys, they do this because it is their way of income. When you then have 40-50 IDIOTS running around not knowing better, and just causing hell, then thats a huge problem.

I want to see Gold/silver, money, guns, safes.
Since i have a buyers network built up around these items.

Eveything else is way more labor and costly to sell.

and Jarrod and his wife actually found $712 worth of casino chips, but they spent $200 on the unit so they profited $512

It was about Barry, he found a new "friend" a much younger "friend"  that was what they ment. lol get it??? lol

The problem is not the newbies it self.

Of course do they want new players into th game, of course do they want as much they can for the locker.
Thats not what the problem is all about.

The problem is the ones who only show up just to hang out, and watch the auctions, because they have seen it on tv. These are the people who have increased the processing times at each unit with 300% or more. And when you have 75 to 100 units a day that becomes a problem.

Then on top of that they cause problems for the ones who really want to bid any buy a locker, because they get fed up and moves on to another auction. Then you start to lose your regulars as well. And that is bad for business.

Newbies who intend to become a part of the game and be an active bidder is not the problem in this game. The problem is all the passive people who takes it as a sunday trip to the park.


The second problem is that many newbies, when they win a locker, they do not clean it out, tht means that the management has to clean out the locker them self, and spend time taking it to the dump. This costs alot of money for the storage places.

To many of these newbies who don't clean out their unit and we all in the future would have to pay more to rent lockers.

Another thing is, if this goes on, the auctioneer might say that the starting price on a locker is what is owed. In many cases that is 400-600 dollars. Do we really want that to happend???

State law in Tennesse says everyone have to register.

And the new practice of a attendence fee started today, i am glad to report that 15-20 people ( newbies / onlookers ) turned around and left. Suddenly the crowd was down to 20 people. Nice to see "waste of time" people are gone.