Well, you can if you live close by....or if you have a private jet.

Tuesday June 28th, 2011

120 units- 7:00 AM- Private Mini Storage- 20628 Santa Clara St, Canyon Country

Some units have been there for 10 years.
(661) 252-1100

This is in southern California.

The last was pretty funny, a small unit with just a press board desk( missing drawers) and a ripped recliner. The auctioneer offered to pay someone a dollar to take the stuff, lol.

Sounds like a J. Michael's auction. When no one bids on a junker lkr here in CA he says. "Does anyone want it for a dollar? I'll pay the dollar."  A winning situation for him as the property manager gets the lkr cleaned out but the poor slub who paid the $1 that's a question mark.   OK, SURE there may be some sellable stuff in there, but MY PERSONAL OPINION is that all the buyers who passed on getting that for FREE probably made the best deal; remember, in addition to the new buyers who were at that auction who didn't want it, there were undoubtedly some veteran buyers who didn't want it for free either.

Each person would have to make this decision for him/her self while factoring in TIME, EFFORT, DUMP RUN, possible INCOME, etc.

Oh, and welcome to the forum !

A friend recently had 4 of the heavy plastic, 6' tables piled with clothes at 25 cents each. To me it seemed a waste of space and I still think it could have been used more profitably; he sold $15 (ballpark he said) which worked out to 60 pieces.

To my way of thinking, I probably would have found enough small stuff (hard goods) to fill those 4 tables and I think I would have made that $15 with somewhere between 1 and 5 items. But that's just my take on it; other people's opinions are still respected.

You got the low quality part right.

Salvation Army does this too in my area. I went once 7 years ago and bought one big "basket" about 4 feet square and 5 feet high. Bought it because it had about 5 model boxes in it that looked like they might be complete. 3 of the 5 were sellable. I gave the rest of the basket to a guy I knew there. Since I only paid $10 for the basket, I pretty much came out even or made $10 or so.

The guy I sold to did it for awhile back then, but then started buying the $5 to $25 lkrs which IN MY AREA are the $75 to $125 lkrs now (with some exceptions).  Even he stopped going to the SA auctions, but I think he is going back to them now.

Two episodes were on while I was working on the computer. I paid attention to the 2nd episode which featured Lionel trains, matchbox cars (in boxes) etc.  The first 69 lots (maybe 10 items per lot) grossed $1,000 according to the narrator.

Son takes over the auction and is selling "blow molds" Xmas molded lawn figures....I think 3 Thanksgiving figures went for $150.  At my local flea a blow mold santa (at Xmas time) might bring $10 but maybe I'm not pushing them enough at $100 !

One guy bought 8 matchbox cars and his competitor bought about 150. The auctioneer said he thought the gross total on the matchbox cars was around $4,000.

Interesting show...I think it's worth watching; the dollars they get for an item at auction may not be what we get when we sell (where-ever we sell), but still...something to look at for ideas.

Not exactly storage auctions, but related in that you will see a lot of items that we WISH we would find
in lockers.

The auctioneers are Savo Auctioneers (a family business) in Olyphant, PA.

Maybe some of the PA members here have seen their auction house.


Auction Packed (producers play...I would guess...on the expression "action packed.")

Program is running on the National Geo channel on cable and satellite.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/series/auction-packed

Still hot in the central valley, but some cooling. I've gone to some auctions in the heat but didn't buy any lkrs.

What's happening up north?

....how come when you get to the bottom of the window for typing it goes all flaky?  is that just my computer or something? does anyone even know what I'm talking about? ugh, I'll just make shorter posts.  lol

Yes, that happens and it is (as you suggest) because of the length of the post. When it starts "jumping" just end that post and go immediately to a new post to continue the thought. It's very likely that your two posts will be one after the other as it is unlikely anyone else would be posting at the same time.