I was recently at a high school reunion a buddy of mine is a computer programer and has several apps on the apple market. Were working on comming out with a storage auction app that lists auctions nad gives turn by turn directions. There's a million location based apps so this would be easy to come up with just a twist on all the other location based apps programming is pretty basic for someone who does that for a living. Trying to decide whether to charge for the app or jut make money off advertising I'm leaning towards free as I rarely pay for apps.

The one thing about garage sales if your trying to get flea market or retail prices dont bother having one. I literally had people paying me in pennies for .50cent items.

I would have items brand new in packaging for cheap cheap prices and people would still try to haggle me down to a buck.

I accidentally had a pair of brand new coach shoes i hadn't planned on selling at the sale but on ebay. someone asked i told them $8 they wnated them for two these had never been worn. wound up getting like $55 plus shipping on ebay.

garage sales basically you have to just take whatever somnene is willing to pay usually under $2 or your wasting your time. I normally make my profit and then hav ea garage sale and am basically willing to take anytghing as otherwise its going to good will.

I made like $150 my last garage sale i think my highest priced single item was like $10. Sold an almost full set of noritake china for like $9 sites like replacements sell one piece for like $18-$26 but if you cant sel it on ebay or resale shop what else you going to do with it.

my best customers were the soccer mom types who werent totally cheap. i had TONS of name brand clothes limited, guess, forever 21, bebe, dkny, d&g and was basically telling theese moms who wnatd a bunch of stuff fill up a garbage bag and we'll come to a fair price.

Sounds like your one of the few people the post office is still making money off of lol.

Software, books, cd's, dvd's, etc should be shipped media mail. It's a bit slow but is by far the cheapest option. If you prefer to ship quicker consider doing first class mail with is anything under 13oz it will pretty much guranteed be under $4 and it will get there in 3 days.

Flat rate can ship upwards of like 70 or 80 pounds. I sell copper pennies and bars and ship them in those flat rate boxes and it costs me $5 to ship a 15 pound box its awesome. For lighter items its not smart to use flat rate boxes though.

Around the holidays use first class over media mail or media mail can take like a month

I don't think the show will affect renters behavior much. Even before the shows came on you'd come across certain units with like 6 locks on the floor, this is generally a bad sign and generally means the people have been locked out and threatened with an auciton paid up removed some good stuff, fell behind locked up again paid up took some more stuff, etc.

I quickly lost interest in these shows and won't watch them unless literally nothing else is on. Hell I'd probably watch certain infomercials over storage wars or auction hunters.

I don't run up the bid and think it's kind of a dumb thing to do. I have never been into doing this but at least in the past when crowds were small you could sort of justify or say your making smoeone else spend more money so they maybe will run out of money by the end of the day leaving a few units for you.

Today the crowds are so large there's no shortage of people with money so your accomplishing nothing by taking more of one persons money because there's 30 other people with a pocket full of money as opposed to 3 or 4 like it used to be.

Also I dont get why you were mad, because someone else was also itnerestd in a unit? That's not a reason to run someone up. The ONLY time I would consider running someone up is if soemoen is buying every single unit all day long. I know there's no rules every man for himself but I think there's kind of an unspoken rule take a few units and then let others bid aand get some units. If your buying everything your going to piss people off and have people running you up.

I agree with what a fwe others have said though. You don't want to pay more for a unit so why make soemoene else pay more for a unit your not interested in and for no reason? What goes around comes around if you run ohters up people will run you up so your hurting yourself.

I was all gunho to do this full time a few months back although I have to admit the high priced units and the grind of unloading old clothes and household crap has really taken it's toll on me and I've kind of taken a step back from this business.

I'm still buying a unit or two a week but not heading out to auctions every free minute I have.

Though I'm still buying units and still selling on ebay I've been opting for smaller profits and pretty much unloading everything on other resalers and taking a small cut for myself.

I've been kind of focusing on some other ventures and things I have going on. I did recenty learn of an opportunity for a very cheap retail space in a perfect area for a resale business and the best part no commitment as far as lease and being tied down for a year or anything like that.

FThis kind of has my interest peaked in once again looking into a store.