Yep! In fact, I advertise that I will buy select yard sale leftovers.. Part of the deal is, I come in, if I see something I like or I can make money on, I'll buy the whole lot. Keep what I can sell, put free ads up for the rest. People come to my store for the free stuff, I see that as free advertising and I try to make money on the remaining.. Keeps my Saturday busy.

Another type of yo-yo.. The guy who buys lockers without the knowledge, or sticktooitivness to sell the items. So it takes several months to sell the contents of a week or 2 of buying.

Well, I was going to post something today.. Now I'll wait..

I've been stepping up my eBay activity in the past week, and I have been looking at the store option. I would only need the entry level store at this point I think, but I'm wondering if the $20/mo. is worth it... Any thoughts?

No one has suggested Travis has done anything illegal, just actions that are shady and leave him open to criticism. Movieman makes some valid points however.

Of course I'm sure we all have done things in our lives that others would look down on, but not from his position. IE representing himself as a big wig in the storage industry, I would expect Travis deals with shots on his character every day.

I hear you.. Maybe I haven't been on the forum long enough, but with these 2 examples presented, I don't see anything shady.. In fact, I believe these things happen routinely. It's not like there's tons of empty boxes in the locker resale..

One of the advantages to buying a locker through an online auction is that you can line up buyers for the contents before you purchase. It's not that you are selling the contents, but just putting feelers out there for potential inventory. I don't see anything wrong with putting a forklift up on craigslist with the expectation that one MAY purchase a unit with a forklift in it, as long as the buyer clearly understands that the equipment is not in the seller's hands and that a deal of any kind will not fall through.

It's not like Travis took money from anybody. He's just putting feelers out there. It's like looking down on a person who calls their "cable guy" when a cable installer unit comes up. If I know that I've got a good shot at selling a piece of heavy equipment going into a sale knowing that said equipment is present, it just helps set the budget for that auction.

As far as reselling a combed through locker.. As long as the ad is abundantly clear, which Travis says it was, and any potential buyer fully understands that they are buying the contents listed only, I don't see a problem with it. Nobody needs to know what was in the locker previously or even that the particular locker had been through an auction and you had purchased it. It's just a bulk sale.

So don't renew the post; instead delete, then repost it. This will post it as a new ad with a new assigned number and a new url.

Also, keep in mind that since you have business type of information in an "Owner" type of ad, then you're violating the TOS and your ad is subject to removal by CL.

Yesterday was a slow day at the shop, so I went in and removed all my store info on my ads. Have already gotten 3 responses for different products and no new removals.