Back home in California after spending 12 days in New Mexico and Colorado. While my main reason for being there was to see my brother in Santa Fe and then my two daughters in Denver, I of course had to conduct some business as well, if nothing but research.

I went to 3 flea markets in Santa Fe. Here are pics of the first one which was just down the road from an Indian puelo (reservation) and was run by the tribe. Note the camera requirements in pic one.



Nope, no photos allowed...so I didn't take any inside.



This shot was right at the parking lot before walking inside.

See next post for details about the vendors at this flea.

I'm on vacation in NM and Colorado and hitting a few fleas. Only have the iPad with me so will post observations and pics after June 22, 2013. Basically stuff is stuff, but in NM at least some differences.

Meanwhile, any NM people around to offer thoughts?

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Any electronics I can't sell, I'm piling up to eventually scrap.  I don't bother hunting for gold in them though.  Stuff like cpu chips and memory can be sold at a higher rate, but pretty much all your circuit boards can be sold by the pound.  Just have to find the right scrap yard.

Member craiglstauction did a lot of this..he hasn't posted for about 3 months, but look him up in the member's list and drop him a private mail. I think I spelled it right but maybe not.

Yeah, but lets say someone wanted to rent a unit after business hours. Who wants to wait until the next day to get access to the unit.

This is like saying "I want to buy tires at wal-mart after business hours. Who wants to wait until the next day?"

This is comparing apples and oranges. Original post was about paying late fees, not renting a locker after hours.

Are there more reasons a kiosk won't work?

  My guess, Zero. 

I'm sure you're wrong about that as I know Alloro obeys all laws...except for the occasional breaking of the speed limit ....    "but officer, I was only keeping the flow of traffic going."

Tracking overall profit has been easy...ZERO! In last three years NADA.

Will get to that quoted statement above in just a minute, but meanwhile...

I can't believe you haven't done a more accurate analysis of your profitability since all your other assesments seem so spot on as to approach to buying, selling, etc.  I would have thought that you would have closely figured in expenses such as gasoline, storage, dump runs, purchase price, etc and would have balanced those off against the money coming in.

Now to that ZERO profit statement. Are you saying that you just BROKE EVEN on all the locker work you've done...or worse, LOST some money during the total time you've been doing it?  I know it's fun to at least search for the goodies and anticipate the goodies, but if you truly haven't made ANY profit over the long haul, how could you have kept it up for so long?

I track mine month by month, include all expenses (even data purchase for the iPad, entry fee to some auctions, gasoline, etc) and know what the monthly and yearly ratio is on a running basis. I couldn't just go with a ballpark figure.

I have one friend who buys a fair number of lockers on a regular on-going basis; he stated the other day (after about 1.5 years (to 2) of doing this that "I started with $5,000 and I have $5,000 now". To me that's a lot of work for staying "even".

This fellow has a store that he admits after about 8 months of operation is "breaking even" so at least he is tracking that a bit more diligently. He does better at his 6 times a year yard sales saying he does between $2K and $3K each time, (frankly I don't believe that) but even if true, remember he buys lockers regularly for which he pays $800 to $1,500.

Anxious to hear your response on the ZERO profit statement.

Now that I have a store....

How did I miss the announcement that you getting into a store ?  If I missed a thread can you give me a link, or otherwise fill me (us) in.  With only 10 or so posts a day of late on the forum almost ANY news is good news !

Craigslstauction hasn't been active for about 3 months here, rockintheretro and the gal from Florida have been absent for what seems like a year.....pretty DULL around here.