Have a bang-up time today !

......Wednesday, July 20, 2011 and the preview showed the original buyers from earlier episodes.
Preview didn't indiate any city, state location.

Not that i have come across any, but what are the laws concerning finding firearms in a locker you bought?

Specifically in California.

Thanks!

1) Typically, if auctioneer sees gun case(s) in lkr, he opens it; if gun, pulls from locker and gives to prop manager.
What happens to it there depends on mgr. Supposed to turn in to police. Might keep for self.

2) If you buy a lkr and find a gun buried at the back you can 1) turn in to police who will check to see if it is stolen.
If it is stolen the police keep it. If not stolen you get it back and would register it (or not). 2) You could just keep it and not turn in to police; now you are the owner of  a possibly stolen gun, but you'll never know.

3) Lkr buyers who find guns sometimes keep them for themselves or they sell them to others whether they go the police route or not.

I have found (I think) 7 guns in as many years. I have found those 7 guns in just over 350 lkrs bought. That's roughly 1 gun per 50 lkrs bought (on average).

TO SEE MORE ON GUNS....use the search button above and search for threads about "guns".....several will pop up.

I've never had a previous owner contact me about a Clist item, though I have had them talk to me at the auction or at the flea market. So far no bad contacts I couldn't live with.

How would they know it was originally theirs and came from their lkr?  

If they did call on Clist, just treat them as any other customer; the item belongs to you, you are selling it. Typically it would just be some regular item and not something with emotional value anyway, and unless it had their name, ss# or some other id permanently attached, how would they distinguish it from any other same-type item?

Again, it belongs to you...not to them.

Frankly, I think the likelihood of this EVEN HAPPENING is next to none. Report back here IF it does happen (or happened) and how you handled it.


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Here are links to threads which talk about face-to-face contacts with former lkr owners:

http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=582.0

http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=563.0

http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=826.0

Welcome, Jeremy to you and your wife. I also read you got your first units. Keep us in touch with your
experiences.

I just bought one the other day. With no truck 10x30 by about 5-6' high. A really old unit (and 1/4" dirt on every thing) that appears to have been a hoarder handyman. $670 and even though the public storage auctioneer said $1 dollar special for the month- noone told me there has to be more than one available. $522 for the month. I loaded a 14' uhaul- looks like I need 3 or more. Now I will admit I might make my money back. An old "california land surfer" skateboard, a skeleton arm and leg, some old frames etc. But the actual coup de foi gras might be a small stack of movie b/w pics from a studio photographer named Louis Goldman. They stink, but still seem to be in great shape.

I'm confused about several things even though I read your post several times.

1) They told the crowd about the $1 special, but none were available (or only 1 was)?
2) A 10 x 30 there rents for $522 a month? Whoa ! One that size would rent for about $220 or so in my area.
3) You loaded a 14' Uhaul and need 3 more....is that 4 "loads" you're taking? And where is it all going?

May be some value in those old b/w stills if you can identify any of the "stars".

While from the storage auction buyer's point of view the TV shows have had a detrimental affect on our ability to buy units as cheaply as we would like, there is also the feeling that the TV shows have educated the public about the legal system in which the storage facilities operate. This seems to be leading to lkr renters actually paying their bills and reducing the number of units available to we the storage auction buyers.

Here's a partial cut and paste from a storage blog on the internet. Because the full site is obviously an ADVERTISEMENT for the blogger's storage properties and a variety of other ways they get money from storage auction buyer's I have chosen not to reveal the source. If you wanted to know, you could spend some time Google-ing and you could find it.

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"It’s not surprising that reality shows about storage auctions would have an affect on the storage auction industry itself, but what about the self-storage industry at large?  The popularity of the shows can definitely skew the public’s perspective on the self-storage industry in that they will think a unit being auctioned off is common place and something they might have to worry about if they ever decided to rent self-storage.

But considering the fact that, as we mentioned, only 1-2% of all the rented storage units in the country ever go to auction, this really isn’t the case.  In that way, Pimley suggests that the TV shows “are positive for the auction business but a negative for the storage facilities.”  But that blanket statement may be a little too simplistic since another surprising consequence has been that, according to Watkins, the television shows have increased awareness of the lien and auction process they have “educated America that the storage industry lives within a set of laws that govern how we do business and out only resolution for dealing with delinquent or abandoned units […] and therefore the public are paying their bills at a higher rather than they were before”.

In that way, the popularity of storage auctions could certainly be considered a boon to the industry since most facilities would much rather have every tenant pay his or her bill on time even if it means they never get to be on TV."

  I went to a facility today in Clearwater fl and 9am... Bam! 50 people. 2nd facility...Bam!  70 people. Unbelievable! Oh well I have enough from my first two to make about 300.00-400.00. Still having trouble selling my ebay and craigslist items.

Crowds that big still (or sometimes) !

Recently in my area (central California) crowds have been down.

Going to an auction today and the nearest other auction is 50 miles away and then a big one in southern CA which is supposed to have 120 lkrs. Of course that's a 400 mile drive from the Central Valley and I doubt VERY FEW of the buyers in my area will be going IF ANY. The number of buyers in southern CA who will be there would number in the 100 to 250 range I would guess. Will probably hear reports next week and will pass them on here.

Edit: went to the local auction; about 60 people there and 55 of them TOTALLY NEW..the TV shows are in re-runs now and these must be late-comer newbies !  Maybe 7 lkrs and none went above $200 and most in the $35 range. Not a single regular bought one of these, making me feel my instincts were OK on these lkrs not being worth the time or money.