Help!

In my army locker i found a thing that i am not sure what is worth. And when trying to google or ebay it for something close to it, nothing shows up.

Take a look at the pic, i have never seen anything like it before. Can anyone help out here?
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=153418191388301&set=a.138258676237586.26293.124251090971678&theater

When I follow your link it takes me to a photo of a metal man on a metal motorcycle. Is that the one you mean you need help with. When looking at the five photos in the album I see the yellow lensed item which you have pictured and asked about before in a different thread.

What should be be looking at....?  A brief descripition in words would help us narrow it down to the photo to examine.

rfr .... in response to your post #13 in this thread.

This is (I think) hijacking the POD thread, so I'll keep it brief, and my response only relates to my experience with the quad.

Honda Finance (in Georgia) told me that they had archived the account 5 years before I started talking with them on the phone. They said they would need something from California DMV showing DMV would be OK with me getting a release of interest from Honda.

DMV said they could provide nothing to Honda, that Honda would need to contact them releasing the interest. It went on like this for about 3 months, back and forth written communication. This was after I had spent about 6 months just dealing with 3 different depts at DMV until it got to the right one. (also docs were lost in the DMV mailroom !).

Finally, after a couple of more months of these two not talking to each other, I got ahold of a VP of fianance at Honda in California and faxed him copies of all my docs to DMV and the Honda Georgia office. The NEXT day I had a FedEX in my hands from Georgia with the release of interest.

After that it was easy with DMV. Eleven months of red tape; listed the quad on eBay classified. It ran, expired in 10 days and THEN I got a call from a prospective buyer. Sold it ! Thanks, eBay!

You could start a thread asking the question you asked. Basic answer is...it will vary on state DMVs, whether there were back taxes owed, stolen vehicle, etc. It's complicated !

The Harley look-alike I got I told DMV it was in crates when I got it (as parts). I put it together, etc. What the story was with its old owner I don't know, but there were no past dues on it, and it went through smoothly. The bike in the quad locker had no money owed on it and hadn't been active for years, so they let me have it with the receipt from the auction.

rfr....

The keys were in the ignitions with plastic tie-wraps making a big loop as a key-chain. This of course was great as re-keying or getting new locks with new keys would have hurt the profit.

Several years before that I got a Harley lookalike (3/4 size) in a locker; auctioneer went in to look at it and found the keys and paperwork in a baggie on the seat. The locker was sold with the bike "as parts" so that way they didn't have to do any lien work on it and postpone that part for a later sale date.

I went to dmv and they showed it was clear (no bank owed on it) and it had no back taxes. They signed it over to me with no problems. Lkr cost $600, I sold the bike for $500 to the property manager at MY permanent storage and the rest of the lkr did really well too. It was one of the 8 or so MEMORABLE lockers I have gotten in 7 years doing this.

I think I read about this approach somewhere else in this forum. Might do a search for sealed bid and see what other threads come up.
 
I agree with the others. Run away fast...too many chances for mischief.

You COULD be in the last group to go through though; at least that way you would be able to wait for the outcome, but the idea that the other bids are not told to you is BAD ! But if in the last group you could pay for it and lock it up....unless they just were firm and said "we'll call you".

I think I would just pass on that facility.

Edit: How many people were there that they had to take them through in groups? What size were groups?

Went to one today with 5 units. Crowd not bad....maybe 25 people.

Lkr #4 was good, good, good ! It was a 5 x 15 packed with tools from front to back.
Several red roll-aways, smaller tool boxes, tools hanging from ceiling (new torch head and heavy yellow tubes) and at the back floor to ceiling wall to wall banker boxes, marked with typical household.

The overall impression of this one was how Neat or Clean it was...to me that always says a lot, but also means a high price. I was the last one to look at it and the auctioneer asked me what I thought it would go for. I said 1,500 to 2 (K) but tempered it with "but since there are only half the number of heavy hitters today, maybe less".

Bided my time and thought I would go to 1200 or so but thought it would go higher and it did...$1500 even.
At that price it will probably break even (I think) but another guy said he didn't think it would and he would have paid $500....even 8 months ago it wouldn't have gone that cheap. Anyway, a nice clean tool lkr and I would loved to have had it, but working for free on the chance of a few hundred profit just doesn't make sense to me (though I've done it before !). The red roll-aways were not Snap-On or anything, but even Craftsman sells, and at 500 pieces at $3 each would clear the lkr.  

Is no one reading my posts? haha. Im asking HOW? And what does SPS stand for? How do you report taxes monthly ect...

Thanks

My guess is that people who are not responding don't wish to share how they handle their finances.

What the heck happen!?!?!?!?! Did we get hijacked by another forum or something??

The other forum in question is designed primarily for auctioneers and storage property managers and provides their
view of what is happening in this industry. Some interesting stories there from the property managers.