Well, the string of facilities with "low quality" lockers continued in my area today. The good news is the crowd was down,only about 8 bidders, but the units were not good. Mostly garbage bags, broken furniture, and empty boxes. (Hey, at least they weren't staged!!
) Six lockers up for bid, with prices ranging from $5 -$275 - with one locker not getting a bid. Most expensive unit had a nice desk, several bins, a couple old tools, and three worn mattresses - and the winning bidder has an auction house, so they were happy to get it.
Bad thing is the low quality has also spilled over to my local garage sales. Went picking after the auction, and stuff was either junk, or anything good was priced at ABOVE retail. No joke, I went to about 10-12 places and people were really in love with their stuff. For instance, found a really nice coffee table-size Beatles Anthology book - priced at $60 on the dust cover and priced at $75 by the seller!! And it was beat up a little! I offered her $10 and she laughed - said if was a collector's item that was selling for over $100 on eBay.......last time I checked we weren't on eBay, we were in your driveway........and so it went......
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Beatles-Anthology-Book-/320916863868?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item4ab822bb7c($100.....$30......hey, she was close!!)