I'm toying with a small shop idea. Here's how it goes. Our local attic storage facilities have the usual inside the fence units but they also have outside the fence business units that have a 10x20 wharehouse with a rollup door facing the parking lot and it includes an attached 10x12 office bathroom and closet. All that space for $450 a month including utilities. I'm currently paying 89 a month for a small locker just for storage and anytime I have a yard sale which is once a month I have to bring the stuff home so here's my thought. Rent this space, drop the storage unit. Put display shelves along the wharehouse walls for general merchandise and in the office for 'better' stuff. Put larger pieces in the middle for display also. Hold yardsales inside and bring some stuff outside but do it twice a month as a minimum. This gives me storage and display space along with sorting and storeage thats not at my home. Also, when I advertise on CL I'd have a place to take someone that is not my home and while they are there they might browse the shop and buy other items. And it could be done rain or shine warm or cold. A space at a flea market is another obvious idea but that is not as flexible and more restrictive but then you do have the walk by traffic and have to do it every weekend. What does everyone think of that kind of an idea?

Maybe it's just me but over the last two weeks about half the auctions I attend seem to have half the newbies and lookey loos as there were even a month ago. Only one auction I went to this week had any new and totally out of the way bidders. 3 older retired guys must have pooled their money to bid and got a 5x10 for 700 that had busted dining table, no chairs, two black painted end tables and a bunch of mixed boxes. The old timer pros either didnt bid or stopped around 300 like I did. Maybe the shows, crowds, and tax money are running out. BTW, the three elderly gents were all wearing plaid Burmuda shorts, socks, sandals and button up short sleeve collared shirts and dark sunglasses. Only thing missing were golf hats...ROTFLMAO.

Yeah I agree, it may have looked good but tying up 1500 actually more than that cuz you don't know how high the other guy was going, at any rate, tying your money up and hoping to make 20% profit on the 1500 just doesn't cut the mustard for me.

Absolutely the show is a load of crap. Any semblance of reality just flew out the roll up door even with their disclaimer at the beginning of each show. They travel across country (in that old beat up box truck -aaa bull****) and then of the three lockers being sold, they buy two and there is hot **** in both of them. At least storeage wars is showing some reality in some less than winning lockers. All this is going to do is get the newbie lookey loos all excited about spending 500 of income tax refund and making 5000 on one locker. Total friggan crap and nothing but Hollywood bull**** called entertainment (yeah right).

SAG sponsered this and it was a huge success! We set up at 7 a.m. and closed down at 5 p.m. Took up six parking spaces for us to show all the smalls and stuff from units that didn't sell on CL and we did good. All that small stuff netted out to $1234.00 not bad for a bunch of odd ball stuff from sewing baskets to gym bags. Nothing big just 1 to 20 dollar items. Thought I was going to get stuck taking 4 stereos and 5 cameras (35mm) back to storage when all of a sudden there was a run and all but one small stereo sold!! Out of all of it we sold out 85% of what we took..............a very very good day.

Great one day flea.........

I have to agree, the best way on these smalls like DVD and CD's is to group and bundle by genre, artist age etc and sell them off as a bundle like ten reggae cd's all together for one money..... I've done best that way if you want to turn over your money, make a bit of profit and buy more. I've always found that sitting on something that you are only ging to make another dollar on is worse than selling it for two dollars and moving on. Especially with CD' DVD's Tape's books etc as they lose value as they age versus what they are worth today with few exceptions.

Thats the nature of this beast nowadays. I stopped going to Saturday auctions as of last week. Every Sat auction is more like a family outing to the circus than a business. Then the money these ninnies pay for the crappiest of lockers hoping the TV shows are right and that gold bullion is just laying in a sock drawer waiting for them...... Stick with weekday auctions, watch for the regulars, watch what they bid on and how much.....use that as a learning tool and you probably won't get burned too bad...........good hunting!!!

Tell it all brother 'A'! Tell it all................