Obviously we all have things we look for in units and we look for clues. Part of this is basically stereotyping units. Just thought it would be fun to say what the best units we have found or tend to find are.

Two of my top two categories of peoples units to buy have to be Phillipinos and Gays. Phillipinos units in my experience always have designer clothes TONS of expensive handbags, lots of good toys, etc.

Gay dudes tend to have nice clothes, nice home furnishings, electronics, chrome barwear type stuff just overal nice stuff.

Any other stereotypes that help you pick units?

Sam if your looking for a new source of merch check out police auctions, freight auctions, and other things like that. Pods is no different from storage auctions and it's typically the same type of merchandise as your average storage auction.

The crowds are worse as well. I can't speak for all areas but in my area there's one mian pods facility outside of Chicago where they auction the stuff at and they seem to not do them all that frequently so when they do have them it tends to be people from all over chicagoland comming out for this one auction that doesn't happen often as opposed to your average storage facility who has auctions weekly if not monthly and it's not as big of a deal to make it out to one.

just to clarify are we talking about actual silverware as in silver or are we talking about cheap ikea forks, knives, spoons?

tax return money back? i wish lol. I owe $2500 bucks. Im kinda pissed I just had a nice check comming from my business and its all going to the IRS 

lesson to everyone that i learned im no tax expert but was running my business last year with my partner under his social so our income together got combined with him and his wife and bumped us up into a higher tax bracket. we finally smartened up and started an llc and i think we'll be in a better position next year tax wise.

alias, good luck to you with your surgery i hate to see people having medical issues along with the expenses that come along with them best of luck to you.

I've always had a tough time moving silverware as well as China. Silverware is obviously easier as if nothing else at least you have the silver content which is pretty worthwhile.

I've had some nice China, some relatively rare china. Have tried ebay no luck, have tried selling to sites like replacements but are picky about what they take and don't pay much even though they sell single plates for like $30 or more.

I've taken them to pawn shops not interseted resale shops not intersted. Tough part about shipping china is it breaks so easily and properly packing will make shipping box huge and full of packiing materials and expensive to ship. I wound up selling most of my china at garage sales for garage sale prices.

As for silverware unless you have a full set or unless it's a rare set most people probably won't buy it to use as actual silverware most people will be interested in buying it for scrap. I've had pretty good luck on ebay with scrap however most buyers of scrap are probably pretty saavy and realize shipping costs eat into their profit when they take it to their scrap dealer plus ebay is hitting you with 13% fees so already they are paying 13% more than they would in a local sale.

I would say maybe relist on ebay maybe you'll get someone who wants to buy silver but isn't smart enough to really do the calculations of what its worth in scrap and would pay a higher price. I generally look at silverware as junk silver unless it's a full set or very rare silverware

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Just make sure you categorize your accounts so use one account for clothes, purses, etc and use the other for electronics and jewelry. Your doing it for categorization purposes they can't say you are doing it to raise your limits.

I bid on what I want REGARDLESS of who wants it.....If they get what I want then they pay for it....

Every man for themselves cause Im not there to make friends. I only see them at auctions its not like we hang out and sing Koom Ba Ya at night. Its a business and nothing should be personal cause if you take it that way then your in the wrong line of work.

Just my Opinion.

I'm kind of split. Part of me says every man for himeself may the best man win. That said I personally think it's not necessarily good business to buy everything even if you are the whale as it's a way to turn everyone against you and cause yourself to pay higher prices at every auction moving forward b/c everyone hates you.

Of course business is not about being friends but that's not to say there's not some etiquete and common courtesy and unwritten rules.

If everything were cutthroat in other types of business companies would do anything to win people may badmouth competitors, file complaints with regulators or government just to make your competitors deal with headaches and take away from their business, etc, etc, etc. This type of behavior would spread and everyone would do less business so by people following some of these unspoken rules things move more smoothly for everyone

Generally even in business where people aren't out to make friends there are often courtesies you extend to your competitors or unwritten rules people follow. Not saying your wrong just kind of playing devils advotage and stir up discussion.

PayPal is the way to go only if he ships with tracking. Without tracking the buyers can initiate a charge back and will get a full refund unless proof of delivery is shown.

The problem that I see with shipping is that Craigslist is regional. That means anyone viewing his ads is within driving distance and might not be inclined to pay for shipping, nor will they pay for an item they can't see with their own eyes.

This was my point exactly CL is regional meaning people will want to meet up in person. Like someone said in another post they had someone drive 2 hours to buy a $25 dresser, some people just like meeting in person seeing what they are buying and handing over cash money.

I agree Paypal protects the buyer sometimes to a fault none the less I don't think people trust shipping especially with craigslist and craigslist also puts disclaimers up all over the place about dont go for shipping.