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eBay / Re: Typical Ebay Dispute with a Buyer..
« on: September 23, 2014, 10:12:06 AM »
I have to wait 30 days before I can close this case, buyer has not escalated it yet..

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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Storage Battles Raising Buyer's Premium To 15%
« on: September 22, 2014, 05:44:30 PM »
You know me, always full of analogies.  ;)  Just for the record though, Jim didn't pioneer online storage auctions, sites have been around for 10+ years, they just never gained traction. Kevin Gorzny, who founded Sealed Online Bids, was the first to develop a following. Jim bought Kevin out. Jim bought Storage Treasures out. Jim's money has allowed him to scale quickly; however, other players with deep pockets want in and the playing field is about to be leveled.

And what makes you think the other players who want in, won't just buy out JIM?  If they buy him out, how does that level the playing field?

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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Storage Battles Raising Buyer's Premium To 15%
« on: September 22, 2014, 05:42:32 PM »
This sure is an interesting thread.  I like Travis's Easy Button analogy.  What we are building at ebidstorageauctions.com is much more an Easy Button than a BMW.  It will be interesting to see how well received it is among buyers.  I do think some of these comments represent some really good insight into the online storage auction space.  But doesn't Jim deserve some respect for growing the market leader and pioneering the online storage auction trend?  He wouldn't be doing 5000 auctions a month if he was the Kramer of OSA's, would he?


I like the look of your site, but here are my suggestions..

1) Making users sign up to see auctions is stupid - Notice how I didn't sign up?

2) Remove the buyers premium, read my comment to JIM, it's retarded. You might think in your head, it's a way to dope to buyer out of more money, but it's not.

 

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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Storage Battles Raising Buyer's Premium To 15%
« on: September 22, 2014, 03:56:40 PM »
Travis:

I agree the new site is more difficult than the old one, but we are moving from a Yuga to a BMW.  Many more options and benefits.  It's like getting a new cel phone, it will take a few weeks to get the hang of using it.  But when you do, you will wonder how you ever lived without it and never want to go back.

As for the posts, most of them were very old, before we took over the StorageTreasure's site, and tried to simplify it.  I think in time, people will like it.  Hopefully, but what do I know.  Feedback from sites like this tell me more.

As for George's suggestions last week, most were in development currently, but one was not which we have added to our development list.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Are you sure you're the person that owns Storagebattles? Cause you sound like a complete idiot.  I just find it hard to believe a person that built a decent company, is so out of touch. Who's feeding you that information, it's not the customer and why are you listening to them.

1) Does Amazon, Ebay, or any other marketplace charge the "BUYER" a "FEE" to "BUY"?  They all charge the "SELLER", there is a reason for that, do you think you're smarter then those companies?

2) You overpaid for StorageTreasures, people already know the current goto place for auctions is "StorageBattles.com" You already built up brand recognition.  Don't be silly and change that - All the facilities already know what to put in the Public Notices. 

3) Retire the StorageTreasures site and gimmicks - Cut your losses, it didn't work for them, that's why they were eager to sell.

4) Just make some minor enhancements to "Storage Battles" - Stop using Javascript to re-redirect the post back and allow users to right click on a link and select "Open in new tab" (Should take any coder, like 10 mins)

5) Stop randomizing the order of the auctions - It makes me lose track of what auctions I seen and didn't see. This way I don't miss something I didn't see. (Should take any coder, like 10 mins)

6) That's it, that's all you need to do, 20 minutes of work, everything else is simple and easy. Then all you need to do is get more facilities signed up and grow that business and get 10% from the facilities. All you do is invoice them once a month and collect a check.

7) You then only need a website admin, a billing person, a developer, and a sales team. Everything else just get rid of. 








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Storage Facilities / Re: What's more important?
« on: September 20, 2014, 07:09:50 AM »
I think getting the unit cleaned out free of charge is the most important thing.

I went to a facility that did their own auctions this week, they didn't care what the price went for..  They were so quick to end the bidding and just get it over with.. 10x30 rooms going for $5. While others pondering about bidding, the auctioneer (an employee) that worked at the facility, had no delay. Just wanted to sell it and move on.  12 units sold in less then 30 mins, didn't even give people time to look.




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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Storage Battles Raising Buyer's Premium To 15%
« on: September 18, 2014, 10:14:57 PM »
Storagetreasures was a bad investment, you bought complete trash. Just shut that site down lay off all those idiots and focus on your real business storagebattles. Also fix the ****ty interface on it.

1) it really sucks that you cant click on an auction and have it pop up in a new tab.
2) stop displaying auctions in a random order, its annoying.
3) get rid of the buyers premium and just charge the facility 10% of the sales price, instead of the member.
4) storing credit card information is just stupid to begin with. Major companies get hacked, what makes you think you are safe you have a fraction of the resources.

Hopefully, travis will be kind to leave this measage up too, he normally deletes all my cranky replies.



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General Storage Auction Talk / Re: Canned Goods
« on: September 17, 2014, 08:08:55 PM »
How is it any different from people storing canned foods in their garages?

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Come to think of it, if you want to fix it, it's just a percentage game.

You can list 20 auctions for digital pictures, I can buy them all at .01 cents and scale the percentage down to get the top rated back.


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This happened to me also..

"Cancel's are ok" as long as you do not select "Out of Stock" or "Sold to Someone Else"

The one that got me was, people will open an "Item Not recieved" case and then get the package the next day.
Then people marking "Item Not as described" for items that was damaged in transit.

I never really payed attention like you did and then I went over that 2% threshold and got zapped.  I called eBay and complained and the first person, couldn't help, then their Supervisor couldn't help, now I'm waiting on a call back from the 2nd person's manager.

They issue comes in that they can't fix anything over 120 old, they tell me (It's their policy). So when a bogus case comes in you have to call them and then fix it immediately, to prevent it counting against you. I'm sure someone at eBay can correct it, but you have to work your way up the chain to make that happen..



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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Storage Battles Raising Buyer's Premium To 15%
« on: September 13, 2014, 12:00:21 PM »
Everyone has a price... you're no different.

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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Storage Battles Raising Buyer's Premium To 15%
« on: September 13, 2014, 10:20:02 AM »
I didn't say they were stupid; however, a lot of them assume that they're only paying a 10% fee to sell. Most don't realize that buyers are reducing their bids to compensate for the buyer's premium. As the industry grows, more storage operators will become aware of the high fees Storage Battles charges. Storage Battles is getting away with it now, but eventually the industry will get tired of it and look for cost effective alternatives (like us.) ;D

Why wait? Make some phone calls and talk to those facilities, you know who they are. Become a big enough pain, then maybe they will buy out this site :/

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Or do women collect more junk then men?

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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Storage Battles Raising Buyer's Premium To 15%
« on: September 12, 2014, 02:01:27 PM »
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That wouldn't matter because storage facilities are actually (unknowingly) paying the buyers premium. Buyers reduce their bids to compensate for the buyer's premium resulting in lower bids and a lower recovery rate for the facility.

I really don't think facilities are stupid, I'm sure they know what's going on..

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Actually, Storage Battles bought out Storage Treasures. It was a strategic move to eliminate a competitor. Storage Battles is shutting down and reorganizing under the Storage Treasures name. Lance & his staff are gone and Storage Battles' staff has taken over the site. Hence, why productivity at Storage Treasures has come to a standstill.

That makes more since, because ST couldn't execute - but they had brand recognition from the TV Series which gave their property a little value.  That's the first thing I would of done is eliminate the entire ST Staff within a year (Worthless people normally stay worthless)

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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Storage Battles Raising Buyer's Premium To 15%
« on: September 12, 2014, 01:01:10 PM »
Let's think about this logically..

   A) They are trying to milk an extra $120 a year from their member base..
   B) Some members will just use the same account to bid on stuff, instead of separate.
   C) We don't know what type of deals they might of worked out with the facilities.. Because higher premium translate into lower bids, so perhaps they charge 15% to the buyer, but the facility gets Price + 5% (No one really knows what kind of incentives are being offered to the facilities, if any) Or pehaps it' on a scale, or just straight up.
   D) StorageTreasues don't have the ability to execute successfully, StorageBattles did, hence is whey they bought them out, before it was to late. Hopefully, they left SB staff in place and eliminated the non-executing ST Staff.
   E) Their are some synergies savings

In theory they should just eliminate "Premiums" and just take a cut of the final sale (Much like ebay does)


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Online Storage Auctions / Re: Storage Battles Raising Buyer's Premium To 15%
« on: September 11, 2014, 08:05:22 PM »
They way I understood it auctions on storage Treasures have the 15% fee and has nothing to do with auctions on storage battles.


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