Awesome, sounds like you have a lot of sorting to do lol hopefully make some decent money.

This wasn't the case with your auction since the units for the most part were things nobody wanted but just wanted to make a point about buying every unit at an auction or even every unit on the circuit for the day.

Some people may disagree with me and say may the best man win but in my area there's kind of an unspoken rule that once you get 2, 3, 4  units go home for the day. It's kind of bad form to buy up everything the whole day. In m y area you do that and get people pissed off and then you have no just one but several people running prices up on you from then on and it becomes the crowd against you.

Your situation was not like this but it reminded me of this scenario and figured I'd mention it.

jross intersting topic. I was thinking the same thing recently. I love that show gallery 64 or auction kings or whatever its called.

In my area, Chicago, I property is so expensive that I don't think you coudl justify having a business thats open maybe 3 nights a week and the rest of the time is essentially just a storage space thats sitting idle.

I suppose there's ways you could open other revenue streams like being a we sell your stuff on ebay store, doing construction or restaurant liquidation sales during weekday business hours and doing the auction house stuff in the evenings a few days and a weekend night a week but still it would be tough.

The other thing most auction houses are in smaller towns where its actually as much a social event as it is an auction. In bigger cities there's so much other stuff to do bars, clubs, shows, concerts, etc I dont know if people would come out to an auction on a Friday or Saturday night.

I love the concept though. I would love to have an auction house with unique items, serve drinks,et cand have it be a social event as well as auction.

Once you've been to a few auctiosn they probably won't make you pay the cleaning deposit but for a while they will. I've never paid a cleaning deposit as they didn't charge them back when I started but seeing others cleaning out units while I'm cleaning out mine basically the manager will do a walk through with you and if its satisfactory you get your money back.

As for registering show up a few minuts early there will be a sign in sheet on the counter, you really wont have any trouble finding it as the storage workers are normally nonstop asking if everyone has signed in.

There's normally a general sign in sheet and then at many places each person has to sign off on an individual sheet as well I guess saying you've read and understand the rules and everything I've never really read it that closely.

I was just curious if you guys put tags on items at your garage sale?  normally I do tags but was thinking about not doing tags and just saying make me an offer on what you like

I was thinking this for several reasons. A. maybe someone will offer me more money than I would have taken item 4. B. sheer laziness is save me the trouble of tagging. C. most people tend to haggle with you even if an item is tagged so why not skip the tags in just a go anyways.

I'm hoping to do a lot of bulk deals and bundling of items so thought this made more sense

just curious if anyone has had garage sales both ways in which worked out better

jross i think you may be trying to post in casual encounters lol for sale generally doesn't care if you have an account or make you verify.

just kidding i know some sections do like gigs and a i think certain subcategories of the for sale section. for verification it normally just has you put in a phone number and then texts you a new verification code no?

I'm always collecting more stuff than I can possibly sell myself and am trying to clear out some space as well as just get rid of a lot of stuff I've been hanging onto to sell myself at flea markets and such. Just don't have time now and weathers going to be going downhill not that long from now.

Was thinking about putting an ad on craigslist trying to sell "lots" of merchandise at highly discounted prices to other flea market sellers and or ebay sellers. Anyone had any luck doing something like this?

ryedales are cool but unless yoursorting hundreds of dollars a week and selling your sort on ebay its not really worth buying one. I forget what I worked out but its a HUGE amount you'd have to sort just to makeyour money back. plus like you said hand sorting is fun and that way you dont miss out on steel pennies, wheaties, indian heads, etc. i like my machine because i can quickly sort pre82 from post 82 and then i have a smaller amoun to hand sort from wheaties nad indian heads

some people sell some cool home foundry kits and melt old copper pots and pans and scrap copper. if your burning wood nad making your own charcoal costs are probably not terrible but most people seem to use propane and your fuel costs are going to outweight any metal profits. if its just a cool hobby cool but if your looking at it as an investment or to sell the ingots you probably wont be profitable

they are awesome but they are also $500 and $800 depending on model. They also sell one called the sniper or ace which is a lil over $100 but it has no hopper so really no better than my machine aside from having a nice slide and looking more finished.