I won’t use it, but maybe someone here will !

Now that you've sold the chair, are you going to upgrade to a nicer model?   

Paid $120 at a thrift store on a Monday. Monday next sold it for $700 on Craigslist. Guy drove 90 miles to get it; mine was in better shape than the $400 one that was only 30 miles from him.

I shoot photos at 640 x 480 pixels and post them that way on eBay and Craigslist.

Size on disc is 72 kb.

Here's an example; posted here with a simple html statement referring to the pic's location.

So far half the battle has been identifying what I have.

And researching the unknown items can result in better profits than just turning it over to someone who
already knows about it and wants to reap the real profits.

Research takes time but can pay off and if something truly isn't worth a lot, that's good to know too.

I have learned about new, profitable items through research and once I have sold something for many times what I paid for it I look for it again.  I have bought 6 specialized tools based on one great sale from the first two I bought.

First tool I paid $45 and sold for around $300. Second one bought new (at same source as first one and at same time) I paid $75 and sold for $1,000.  If that wasn't valuable research I don't know what was. Buying from unknowlegeable sellers (for whatever reason they don't know about the product) is still true....buy low, sell high.

It's in the terms of service in bold red letters. Don't pay, manipulate the bids, etc. and your IP address is permanently blocked.

At at an "in person" auction the auctioneer and facility manager can truly prevent a person from bidding on a unit if they have been a problem in the past. However, that "bad person's friend" or relative could bid for them probably.

In an online situation where the bidder's ip address would be blocked, I would think it wouldn't be too much of a problem to use a new bidder's name and a new ip address to get around any "security".

I do love soup!

Can anyone loan me money?   I'm a few million short.......

The news feature I saw on our local station had a rep from the auction company who talked about the "lots" they had on pallets and I think there were 3K to 4K individual items.  You don't have to buy the whole company...but I know a few people in the auction/web business who could help you out with a loan. 

Of course, the highest bidder should win and in most cases the storage facility is going to accept the winning bid. I'm just saying that, if they wanted to, they could refuse the highest bid (if that bidder had zero or negative feedback) to go with a bidder with positive feedback. Probably won't happen that often, but just like at an in-person sale, the storage facility reserves the right to reject any bid.

Uh...I think that MIGHT happen if they didn't receive a bid that was as high as they would like, but I think they would have a REALLY HARD TIME justifying not letting someone bid because they didn't like the way someone "looked" which might be the equivalent of not having good "feedback".

If they didn't accept person "A"s bid because it wasn't high enough that is one thing, but then they would probably not accept person "B"s that was only $5 higher.

IMO, one can't compare the situation of a live auction with one online. The online auction has hidden aspects not apparent to the bidders...aspects such as you project here.

Nope I don't see the logic in that at all.

Just checking......anybody see their craigslist pick up yet?  Up here in my area, it died about two weeks into January, and except for an occasional item here and there, it is still dead!  I've been hearing that from other regulars around the area too....

Same here in central California. I think I've sold two items in the last 6 to 7 weeks. Fortunately, one of them was pricey !