On Sunday, March 8, 2011 there were about 1,940 members at this forum.

Today, Monday, March 9, 2011 that number is DOWN to about 1,640.

Quite a drop and it looks like Drew did quite a house cleaning on "members" whose
only goal was to spam in one way or another.

A look at the member's list shows those with websites, and that's one way to spot
these no-good-niks.

Thanks Drew ! Vigilance will pay off.

If there is such a problem with spam, why not just set the filters to require moderation for any post which contains a link?

If you know how to do that and can pass that information along to Drew that would be a truly positive contribution to the forums.

If I knew how to do it (and if I had the access to do it), I would, but I don't, so I can't.

That would be my fault, but all I was stating is that I originally thought he was fake.

Not a problem for me jross....nor the others that followed up. Threads have a life of their own, and are like
one-on-one (or small group) conversations people have in person. They often go off on tangents. That's just the way
interaction is.

The only real problems I see with either live or written communications is mis-understanding because of the
definitions we have of different concepts and our individual ideas of what a word or a concept represents.
That may be too deep to investigate in a written thread, and as I said elsewhere, I'll never participate in a "live" chatroom  if it ever develops here.

Now did anyone notice how I hijacked this thread to even a different area of discussion...to heck with Dave Hester ! 

I never said the Auctions or Bidding was faked or staged. I was saying that after the units are bought and are in the the hands of the buyers.

How would Laura and Don be involved If I pay for a locker and when everyone moves on to the next locker I throw something valuable in the locker I just bought and say "Hey look what I found in this locker"?

THAT is certainly possible. It could also be true of Auction Hunters. The last half dozen posts or so kind of went off on a tangent from the original intent of this thread which was to  simply show the Dave Hester website, but sometimes threads take on a life of their own.

There are 3 or 4 threads about either or both of the shows being fake, but that's OK, continue on troopers !  

Storage Wars threads:

http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=866.0

Auction Hunter threads:

http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=574.0

When it rains, it pours.
Got one yesterday and 3 today.

Crowd and prices good today.

The auction today was one of the major auctioneers, but the bulk of the big buyers were out of town..thanks guys!
Only 10 bidders and if it hadn't been for one big bidder I would have done really well.

Got one 10 x 30 but only 1/4 full....price was good...$50...it'll make some money.
Got one 5 x 10 maybe 2/3 full........$170. It'll do OK.

Got one 10 x 20 with maybe 30 really clean totes, 20 boxes, small furn, two bikes, etc. This one I could have had for about $450 but the other big bidder thought she could outbid me (she's fairly new). So, when I got it for $675 I was happy and she now has (hopefully) a lingering impression of what I might go for. This lkr will come out quite nicely I think. I looked in 8 totes and found 3 with clothing (nicely folded) and the other 5 with usual household, but quality stuff; hopefully the 22 other totes and boxes will bear out the quality I'm looking for.

So, now to work....and posting here only at night for the next 5 days or so....4 total lkrs to clean out including yesterday's with the motorcycle.

Coyote near Black Diamond Mine, Antioch, CA

Lake New Hogan near Valley Springs, Ca