It's nearly impossible to give away bars of gold on CL. People blow my mind.

Yep, sometimes cList is as dead as a doornail. Weeks can go by with no sale. Other times they come quickly.

Here's my accounting of Craigslist sales for July:

The land of fruits and nuts....that sounds about right. 

All kidding aside, I spent 3 years in Orange County and I can honestly say, Californians are probably some of the nicest and most open minded people I have ever meet.

I don't know if I have the right state pictured below or not, but.....

"Texas....home of steers and queers"

I lived in Dallas for a year (after migrating from Kansas) and really don't have much to say about it one way or the other, but I DO remember moving to California after that.

Talked to a couple of other sellers the other day and we all agreed that spring and fall are the logical best times to sell due to moderate temps, etc, but that doesn't stop us throughout the year.

In the central valley of California this week is COOL with highs only about 90 or so the last couple of weekends.
It's also not humid here so that helps too.

How about your area ?  Any special summer concerns or trends due to weather?

Folks, It's just NOT going to ever get back to the days of making 4-10 times or more your money on most units.

My best year was 2.68 times the money. Last year was 1.59 times the money. The first 7 months of 2013 I am sitting at 2.23 times the money....and that's from buying 2 lockers in 7 months with the rest from PICKING !

Maybe they got tired of being tracked - LOL!

Just Kidding - .....

Most likely are the following (though there are many other reasons):

1) Lost job.

2) Lost loved one (death/separation/divorce).

3) Lost life.

4) Lost interest in storage auctions or in talking about them on a forum.

I think number 4 is the most common.

For both eBay and cList I put a yardstick with large numbers with the item whether a bread-box size or larger and take a broad shot and then a close-up clearly showing the dimension. Depending on the piece I might do this with each of the dimensions.

I also put the dimensions in as text, but you can still count on someone asking what the size is or asking "Do you think I can get this in the trunk of my 'xyz' car?"

Did no good at a piece-by-piece auction on Thursday, July 25, 2013 but I did make a good buy at another auction of that type.

I bought a 4x4x4 container (open on the top) of miscellaneous items. I saw one item I was interested in…the rest was mystery items and they were not visible. The whole box cost $10.

The place provides a dumpster and I was filling it up pretty quickly. I got about 12 total items I thought were sellable.  One in particulare (buried in the middle of the box) came out well.

It was a plastic ziplock type bag about 9 x 12 with visible USA postage stamps (new) showing. Bag was thick too, so if the rest were like that I knew there would be some value there.

Got it home, spent maybe an hour sorting by denomination. Most pieces were 3s, 4s or 8s of a single stamp, but there were a fair number of singles too. Anyway, after putting the quantities and denominations into a spreadsheet the total came out to $130 and some cents!  Not bad for the $10 investment, plus the other items to sell too....and a lot of junk thrown away.

I have a friend who mails to Canada on a regular basis (they need postage with numbers on them, not “forever” stamps) so I may discount some of that to her, but still $100 plus is ok with me.

What's with all the secrecy anyway?

You have the edit and/or DELETE button....I have the WITH-HOLD button !

What would you do with the information anyway?  Alias has provided it for you.  Have at it !