"with power comes great responsibility" abuse it, shall not I.

That sentence structure barely floated with a little green alien using it !

And it seems one of our main players is missing.

Where has member StorMe disappeared to? 

His last post seems to be around mid to late August, 2013 as shown (in one instance) in the link below:

http://storageauctionforums.com/ebay/ebay-now-has-some-ways-for-sellers-to-get-negative-feedback-removed/msg29273/#msg29273

He is quoted in that and several other responses in a variety of threads, but his original posts in those and any other threads are gone. Also he does not appear in the member list.

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Perhaps our fearless leader can share some insight. I have a few ideas myself, but they aren't fact-based like Travis' response might be. 

I have visited the forum from the iPad.. I don't think there's a need to change the format for mobile tablet users. Smartphone users maybe.. but how large of a market is that? I'd think pretty small..

I have looked at the forum on my iPad and it looks fine just using Safari. Don't know about how a smartphone sees it.

I think what HGP might have meant was how many smartphone users are members (or would-be members) of this forum? Sure, smartphones are the latest development in technology but it sounds like your concern is mostly about getting dinged by Google...I assume that means they lower your ratings or something.

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As to an "app" for your other websites.....I use the genuine eBay app for the iPad, but of course I could use the regular Safari approach to grabbing it as well. The app for that has a really useable, clean look and is worth using. On the otherhand, I have a Craigslist app which I need to take off. I'd rather just use the Safari browswer approach to looking at my listings on cList. So it might be a toss-up for any company's app vs. regular approach.

So, one of my thoughts is that two HUGE companies like eBay and Clist might need it, but do you ? We're talking millions of users countrywide for the first two mentioned.

When does Auction Scene #10 begin?

Well, it will begin on October 1, 2013 since October is the 10th month of 2013.

Put the Karma back! Dont be intimated by people that cant handle it. Now the ones that Complained are in the new club called " Big Babys' and that is how they should be addressed

Boo Hoo ! 

This thread is in regard to the recently deceased Karma feature here on the forum.

If you have read the threads here at all over the last week or so (especially, Wednesday, September 11, 2013) you know what this is about.

I have placed this in the “forum suggestions” section as it doesn’t really fit anywhere else except maybe the “dump” section; several threads were hijacked big-time with Karma notations but there’s no reason to add this to any of those threads.

Here is the link to Travis’ original thread on the Karma premier:

http://storageauctionforums.com/suggestion-center/karma-added/msg29970/#msg29970

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Here are some interesting (to me at least) statistics in regard to the people who could actually click on the Karma buttons:

There are 102 possible people out of over 3,000 who were capable of giving Karma; this is based on the fact that one had to have 25 or more posts before being allowed to give Karma.

The names below shown in red (in 5 pics) are people I have eliminated as being possible Karma givers; this was based on what I know about their recent visitation history here. Sure, I might have made a mistake here or there, but by and large, the ones who are shown in red are probably not people who gave Karma even though they could have due to their 25 + post history.

There are 75 members highlighted in red in the list here. Many of those atained their 25+ posts over a year ago.

Subtract 75 members from 102 possible Karma givers and you have 27 members who were more likely to have given Karma and it’s possible all of them did give Karma but unlikely just from a common sense standpoint; it’s more likely a handful or two actually gave Karma (that’s 5 to 10 people) and…..

....any given Karma giving member could give one Karma an hour to the same other member. In a 16 hour day one could have given 16 positive, negative (or combination) to another member. One was not limited to how many members one could give Karma to in any given day. If you wanted to give 102 positive Karmas to 102 members you could have.

The total number of Karma given was on the order of 40 (both ways for me), 30 (both ways for Travis), 20 or so (both ways for Alloro) and maybe 5 or so (both ways) for another 10 (generous guess-timate) which is a total of 50 for that group. Total of the Karma given (in my rough estimation) was about 140 (give or take…both ways).

These are just numbers (and subject to + or – “x” percent error). You can make anything you want of them…. including nothing at all.

So far for the month of September crowds seem to be falling off. Of course we haven't had any of our big caravan runs yet so i'm sure the crowds will return for those. Prices seem to be coming down on certain units. It looks like the crowd has finally figured out to not bid up the common garbage, flea market, trash bag units. Those types have been getting bid down the last couple of weeks. On the other hand, any unit that looks like a potential "jackpot" are still being bid up.

Recent auction looked like this.

Unit #1 $50
Unit #2 $20
Unit #3 $100
Unit #4 no bid
Unit #5 $1500 

Can't say this is a trend, but it looks like most of the current auction bidders have had their taste of losing money or working for nothing on the low end units, but the crowd isn't ready to "let" somebody else get a good unit at a good price yet, so when a nice one comes up, many go "all in".

Your usual "spot on" analysis !  That is to say, it pretty much sums up what my area is like as well...and you said it well.

Here's a smile for you !