I missed the first 10 minutes of the 2nd half hour of SW, but it's looking interesting anyway....

Barry got into a bidding war with a guy on two lockers...he got one of them and has just found an interesting box of vials of.....something... and an old penny arcade machine.

Meanwhile Dave lays out $9K for a lkr with maybe 90 or so boxes of ..... some kind of light show boxes (maybe disco type). All new in boxes from China....end of show will give us an idea of his outrageous profit.

Darrel....leaves saying he's not here to be in a "p....." contest.

Jarrod and Brandi....paid $2,800 for a lkr .... not full at all. Knott's Berry Farm ...will it be the key to a fortune.

Just starting this "storage war" stuff .... Just loving it ..... This situation is disappointing, but will not stop future auctions....will just have to take my taser with meeee (jk)
Good luck in your future auction adventures....

Yes, it is fun....especially in the beginning....later the fun is still there but it becomes more like work when you do it on a regular, on-going basis.

People who carry large sums of money to these auctions often have some kind of defense mechanism along with them whether it's legal in their state or not.

First, for you:

If it's already becoming a problem, let the police know this guy is bugging you. The earlier you do that the better; then if things start heating up you will have let them know ahead of time and a history of his contacts can be built.

Whether you let HIM know you have done that (or will do that) you will have to figure out for yourself. Depending on his personality and how you let  him know, it could stop it dead in its tracks or could make it worse.

Second, for everyone else:

Let anyone you know from the auctions that the prop mgr did this bad thing. Let the auctioneer know as well. When this happens, all those who know will bring pressure to bear and you can bet it won't happen again to someone else.

I have found that for the most part the prop mgrs are not the brightest bulbs in the box, though of course some are great and some are in the middle when thinking things through. Any mgrs who read this, don't get upset....YOU are the exception.

Never mind, I found your source:

http://buyingatauctionsforprofit.blogspot.com/2011/02/storage-wars-fake.html

Everything is clearer now.  That blog was posted in February, 2011 and written by a fellow named Chad Wesley.


Some of the comments in the latter part of Post #1 above appear to be cut and paste from this link:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=943570565094

Both of the videos in this post are only 30 seconds long, so not too much of your lives wasted ! 

There are many of these videos on YouTube: Here's one that given the price and the product received seems somewhat typical. How he paid that much I don't know; even in my area from the view I think we would have had I can't imagine more than $300 for it.

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The next one is entitled "Jackpot find from a storage locker"....what an idiot. Read the comments too, they're funny as well.

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Sorry your mover didn't show up. I don't know why people don't follow through on committments...money out of his pocket too.

Would it make sense to have TWO of those folks show up (explaining to them that there will be 2 movers there, and the reason you are doing that)?

Meanwhile, I see you have deleted the CL post that had larger pictures. Don't understand that, but guess you have your reasons.

Hey JohnnyG...

Assuming you're still selling Hondas, but what's your latest news on storage auctions ?

Don't drop out on us !

Travis did contact me and I did add links to the signatures fake member names of post he originated as a courtesy.

That was nice of you !

These types of techniques are common, although unethical, it's not illegal.

Only unethical...in that case it's all right !