Yes! they do well in my region.

Somewhat, but not as much as one would think. Apparently Medicare & Medicade do a fairly good job of providing those items for patients that need them, so getting top dollar in the re-sale market isn't gonna happen.

walkers $2-$50 range
wheelchairs $25-$150 range
haven't got an hospital bed, but have heard others have gotten them, one said sold in the $125 range, the other claimed $500.
Haven't gotten a mobility chair, every unit I have seen with one in it went way too high. I have seen guys at the flea market selling $750 mobility chairs like new for around $200.

Exercise equipment is only good for scrap metal around here. Guess that's why our obesity rate is like 40%.

you definately are right about people not reading when buying. i know what your talking about ive seen people selling pictures of iphones, xboxes, etc pretty much any new hot product that is out. ebay does give people their money back as they generally rule that the purpose of the listing was to be deceptive or something along those lines.

i think the main thing is shipping would make it not profitable for anyone buying for the most part and ebay doesnt have a big enough market for local pickup type stuff to make it worth doing. that said i could see ebay classifieds being used to advertise auctions

Yea, had a winning bidder after he won realize that the lot he was bidding on was EMPTY DVD cases, even though it said EMPTY in the title, EMPTY in the description! I just canceled the transaction with Ebay, and re-listed.

 Boy thats a tuff one! Personal descriptions written on boxes can be troublesome. When the box says "clothes" or "yard sale", I believe what it says. When the box says "Grannies collectibles", well that could mean anything. Are we talking fine antiques or Dollar Tree figurines? I usually try to compare what loose items are laying around the unit and perhaps sticking out of the box to make an educated guess as to what is in those boxes.

Now original merchandise boxes are a different story. When I see LG flatscreen LCD TV, or Playstation 3, or Dyson vacuum, etc. I never assume that the original product is still in those boxes. I assume they are filled with garbage, dirty clothes, or are just empty, unless they are close enough to the door to get a better look.

Only one time I took a chance on an original merchandise box. It was at a piece auction. They were pulling out boxes of personal items out of moving crates and making lots of 10 boxes or so. That day, the lots were being bid as high as the whole moving crate would have went for at a normal auction. One lot got put together and one of the boxes I recognized as labeled with the name of a medical device manufacturer. We were allowed to walk around the boxes/lots but not look inside the boxes. The box I was interested in looked factory sealed so I took a chance and won that lot. The box paid off, it was a piece of medical equipment that paid for the lot and then some, but if it hadn't been there I would have lost money on everything else left in the lot of boxes.

I'm newbie, so 2011 was my getting into the business year, or back in after a 15 year hiatus from helping my friend with his storage auction buying business. Anyway a bought more units in 2011 then 2012, primarily because I needed experience and information so I bought every type of unit available. 2012 I was more discerning about the types of units I bid on and won, and I also discovered the art of picking.

Prices came way down in December, so I bought a bunch of units of the kind I typically don't buy. So far they have turned out good, and as long as I can actually sell all the inventory for what it's worth I will make money on those units, but they are killing me with time and effort! For 2013, even if the prices for units come down/stay down I will probably stick to the method I developed in 2012 of buying only certain types of storage units and picking. That method seems to work best for me as far as maximizing profit margin and managing inventory and time.

I don't see myself as being the buy hundreds of storage units a year guy even if they become cheap enough to buy that many. 

So let's say I buy an item at the grocery store that is the regular price but it is marked buy one get one free. So are you saying that if I decide to keep the extra item instead of selling it, it means that it wasn't free? 

No it wasn't free, you bought the first item at 50% of advertised price, then you bought the second item at 50% of advertised price. You didn't get it free, you got it for a 50% discount.