Have to say the show is boring. Can someone tell me where is the entertainment part of the show is, Its the same old same old stuff the novelty of the show has worn off.

I sure hope your right! 

Funny that you mention that. We had a unit go today for $5,500.. Had lots of real nice high end furniture, professionally packed. It was owned by a moving company for one of their customers who refused to pay for the move.

There were 2 main bidders, one of which said after the sale that she didn't even have that much money on her. I asked why she kept going.. She said "To make him pay.."     I asked, what if he stopped at $5,400? She said, "Oh well, if I don't got it, I don't got it. What can they do?" Yeah, real educated answer.. I was in total shock..

That's an interesting story. Makes me think how often that happens where I live if people are just bidding and don't have the money and don't care if they win because there is no real enforcement mechanism. All the facilty or auctioneer can do is ban them from their auctions. I wonder if instead of going to my limit on some of the nicer, more expensive units, if I should drop early, let others win, then watch to see if the actually pay up.

Anybody out there have experience with this scenario. Could I just claim I'm the back-up bidder and pay the winning bid or would the unit be re-auctioned? (probably not right away since the crowd would have left).

"What's your bottom dollar?" Not that the question is stupid per say, but the idea that I would give up all negotiating ground and let you get what I am selling for the cheapest possible price next to throwing it in the garbage just because you had the gall to ask the question.

I am really getting sick of this question, and it is used ALL the time now in my area. I try to be polite & not lose a potential sale, but I am really close to replying every time with "What's the most you would ever dream of paying? that's my bottom dollar!"

Or maybe I should say "I will sell it for a dollar but you gotta come mow my yard, clean my bathrooms, & make me dinner." 

Last couple of auctions were busts as well. $50-$150 units going for $250-$500! I guess that one auction this month was an anomaly, & the newbies & novices haven't run out of tax rebate money yet.

A Cadillac..piece by piece.

insideselfstorage.com/news/2013/02/self-storage-auction-buyer-discovers-1959-cadillac-in-pieces-inside-texas-unit.aspx

So how much to have it put all back together? Alias?

Ok, so far it's a mixed bag. Auction early this week, all garbage lockers except maybe two, ALL went WAY to high, especially the garbage lockers. 

 Auction yesterday, average units, good but nothing spectacular, just your bread n butter flea market lockers, prices were actually reasonable to slightly on the LOW side!    #crossingfingers

I don't know what percentage of people do it or with what regularity, but some of the "why" people do it is revealed in an article at the link below. Oh, and it happens here on the forum for sure !

realsimple.com/work-life/life-strategies/truth-about-lying-00000000012669/index.html

I already told you guys I lie all the time! Or did I just lie about that statement?