Given time, VSA will grow and it will be a true player in the online storage auction environment. I have no doubt about that fact!

I don't know about all the SEO stuff as I have no need too as I am not trying to grow a business on the internet, but I do feel  that having  multiple "test" auctions is excessive....one yes, more, no. Again just an opinion.

If it's going to grow, it will grow and one has to try things, but in the long run it is the buying public (us) who will determine if any of these virtual auctions will succeed. Personally I don't think they will succeed...I have real doubts about that. Hey Steve Jobs had failures too...very few people on this forum will even know about his "Next" computer or the "Lisa" but they preceeded any iPad, iPhone, etc. 

On the other side of the coin....Thomas Edison is famously quoted (and perhaps misquoted) as saying when asked about 2,000 failures until finally inventing the light bulb...."I didn't fail. I found 2,000 ways NOT to invent the light bulb."

Edison, Jobs, ....... ?

If you go to any large number of auctions over time you will see one of these lockers.

They are characterized by:

1) some kind of sleeping space
2) shelving next to the bed
3) a hot plate
4) wiring from the overhead bulb to the hotplate
5) maybe a tv or radio
6) bucket of foul smelling something or other
7) random bicycle parts

..... you get the idea

So, would you buy it (depending on price and other factors of course)?

If you HAVE bought one, what was the deciding factor?  Was it the 6,000 pound statue of DAVID in the middle of the "living room" that did it for you ? 

Let say the storage door opens and there is a extremely heavy object inside. Like so heavy you need a forklift to move it. Let's also say you could make a good profit on the item. Would you buy the unit? Why or why not?

A 6,000 pound generator on a pallet or a 6,000 pound marble statue on a pallet would have me turning around pretty fast.

The generator .... why was something that "valuable" left there?  It's one thing to get a 25 pound Harbor Freight generator in a locker compared to that one.  It would take a lot of guys from Home Depot and a good sized forklift to move it, and then where would it move to and with what kind of truck to move it.  When it got there, what would it take to test it, repair it, sell it.  I think my fast exit would be justified.

The above ignores part of your question above which is "Let's also say you could make a good profit on the item."  The fact is ...as you should know...when we buy these lockers there is really no way to say with any certainty.... "I'll make a good profit on that".  On a locker FULL OF STUFF the odds go up, but on a single item, no certainty. Buying price would affect it too, but buying a 6,000 pound generator for $100 is still no guarantee of a positive return and the work involved would have to be considered as well.

All of those thoughts take longer to type than they do to think about when the door goes up.  Six K of heavy marble "art" is a loser too in my mind, but what the heck....it's just an opinion.

Mine says "Choose File"? I see nothing that says Browse.

When I choose reply or quote this screen comes up that I am typing in, and below this white area there is a plus button that (when clicked on) shows attachments and other options.

Those are:

notify me of replies.  Don't use smileys, return to this topic.

Below that is an attach area (with a white box to its right and a browse button. 

I'll post this and then do a second post with a screen print of this in it so you can see what I'm talking about.  Again, this is when replying to or quoting someone else's post.

Whoa, limits on giving karma. You have to wait ONE WHOLE HOUR before you can repeat a karma action here on the forum. That means if one stayed up all night one could give 24 positive or 24 negative karma badges a day.

Let the competition begin....or "my karma button pushing ability is bigger than your karma button pushing ability" or "I can turn up the volume on my rap song louder than you can" or "I have a bigger (whatever) than you do."   

Sounds like someone has a chip on their shoulder.

Care to knock it off?  JUST KIDDING remember? 

Maybe they're new items and are drop shipped.

The 5,000 items lister (who is a member here) is selling used clothing and books and assorted other articles. They are not new, not drop shipped. They are the stuff most of us buy and sell, but in QUANTITY. And as mentioned, of the 5,000 plus listed (each month) only about 10 to 15 sell, but as you have said, if it's all automatic once listed it's not such a drag to let it keep repeating.  BUT at some point that listing work had to have been done and the 5,000 items have to be stored, cataloged and asscessible.  Too much for me !

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You know, the kind you used to picture and talk about freely before you owned this website and it became more "family oriented". Have been meaning to thank you for protecting the sensibilities of all the children who monitor this site on a regular basis.