Just really strange that this entire crowd would go to war with one another over old TVs and dirty rugs and bit those units up to 600 or 700 but walk away cold from high end office stuff....bizzare  haha
  

First of all congrats on getting some lockers...yesterday you were ready to quit !

As to the office furniture, either they didn't want to do the work (or didn't have truck and manpower) OR maybe it's like it is in my area....almost all of us pass on it. It's a glut on the market here where business furn is plentiful.

I saw an architect unit with really nice industrial shelving that I would have liked, an old plotter, etc. (boxes of old douments and plans) I would have liked it (for the shelving mainly) at around $275 and let it go at $300. I saw the guy put the plotter on eBay and it didn't sell at the $200 he was asking. He hasn't been back to an auction since (been 8 weeks since he got it) and he hasn't had another item on eBay. Guess he is on vacation.

Meanwhile let us know how it goes.

Bottom line, when I was asked to provide our company's sample list of the auctions in the Houston area, I did, and it was so large that it crashed the server. I think that speaks for itself.

HA !  I guess I should have put a smiley face after my comment that your list crashed the server.

The server managed to survive your list...now if we all can survive the spam. I don't think you can argue that aspect of what we have been talking about here today.

You are not a paying sponsor.
You post your Houston link often.

I think that might qualify you as a spammer.

Heres the crowd a lot of us would like to see:

And this one is even better:

Well, we can DREAM anyway.

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I feel like MC HAMMER "you can't touch this"!

All kidding aside, if you think this list is impressive you should check out the sample list at storageauctions.com, they cover California Auctions but it looks like they do a good job as well.

They charge $84 a year (only available by the year) and their data is often incorrect. Personally (as you might guess) I don't subscribe to it but I know people who do.  Some of those subscribers then take the weekly "update" they receive in email and "sub-let" (that is resell the data) to other poor schlubs thus depriving the original provider of income.  How about it Houston ?

After seeing the Houston link come up untold numbers of times I decided to look at it even though I live in California.

Some interesting and some straightforward info there, but of course some self-serving info too.

My favorite part though is this:



It's a picture of a crowd at what I assume is an auction in the greater Houston and surrounding area.
It will be up to readers here to decide if that is a SMALL, MEDIUM or LARGE crowd.

Now maybe if it had a cutline under it that said...."avoid crowds like this" I would have found it more legit, but...it didn't.

Hey you know what, I started doing a search again, and now I was able to find a whole lot more of auctions... .....maybe I dont need to buy a list.
Thanks and sorry tclane
but maybe I'll get the 10 day trial since its only 4.99.

You can send a postal money order to Mr. A and to me....I at least will not refuse it ! 

Aside from giving forum SPONSORS threads (??) the other thing I see is SPAM from 2 or 3 (or more) people who are members but on a regular basis push off their services on anyone reading a post from them. Some of these are more aggregious than others, but still....

It's like going to a movie at a theatre (where you pay as much as $10 depending on your area) and then being assaulted with something that is supposed to be entertainment but has COMMERICALS in it.  At the theatre, "First Look" is a half hour long set of "features" interspersed with promos for upcoming TV shows, commercials for acne cream and you name it.  This isn't a strictly parallel comparison, but I think you get my drift.

I know it is fairly lax here in regard to being "off topic" in any given thread and a certain amount of lattitude is always nice in several areas (including spam), but I would also think that the half dozen or so PAYING sponsors would have a complaint about text based (not banner ads) populating the threads where discussion takes place.

Just throwing this out there. Don't know what (or if) anything should be done about it.

Well, it certainly is possible to find all these auctions no matter what state you're in however, most people won't go to this much trouble...and yes, I know increased success might demand it, but how sucessful do we have to be ?

If you've got a place to live, a way to get around and food and water (and an internet connection) what more do you need? MAYBE MORE OF EVERYTHING ?