Very un-scientific feeling is that over the last month or so there have been 5 to 10 posts a day.

This could bode well for our business though it has always been true that of the over 2000 members only 10 to 25 have posted with any regularity and even those who are frequent contributors often bail after about 3 months or so.

I too have little to contribute.
Close auctions are every other month now. And very few units. So many facilities aren't at capacity and are working with delinquent locker owners.
 Branch out and to hit a lot it's an easy $100/wk in gas.  Then I can only bid on specific locker cause of injury......

I've been sticking to estate sales.  Seems a lot of people die in my area.  Always 5-6 with in 10 mile radius every weekend.  Been doing $150-200/wk in sales (profit) with no lifting, dirt, dump runs....very little gas.

Good estate sale picks today.
John lee hooker cd SIGNED for a buck.  Not worth all that much but i love John lee hooker....maybe....um....$20-ish to a real fan?

Hamilton beach '40s mixer with original bowls in box for $15.  Will try for $50 but looks good on my counter so won't go less than $40.

Few old vices. Been moving those lately pretty easy. These were $5/ea and not your standard vice but made for certain purposes (wht those purposes are I haven't researched yet).  Been getting $20-75...

Then some 1oz silver bars for a buck below spot. Nothing special.

Rest of picks we're just stuff people asked me to look for or called and asked if they wanted. Crock pot, carry on luggage, gamers books....marked each up a buck or two just to cover gas.

Was a bit disappointed cause I drove all the way out to the boonedocks to and estate that had a recording studio. Ton's of mixers, guitar pedals, mic's.....
Everything was way, way overpriced. Double eBay BIN price or guitar center.   A mixer that sells new for $219 was $225. $75 guitar pedals for $90.  Total waste of gas. 

Im submitting and article. Look for it in your local news......

"Talking to the manager of xyz storage about the impact of Storage Wars on his business. He states that turn out is less now than after but still more than before. Bids are tending to be higher but lower than before, after, but still higher than before.  Some guy standing outside the facility agree's"

Well, if every time he staged an event he kept a bunch of mock ups.....I guess he'd has quite a bit to stage lockers.      And not that hard to get free crap to make a locker look good.....


And the dollar amount could happen.  Remember back in mid '80s that my friends dad paid $5000 for a locker.  Unit was being used to build/repair a race car and there was five engine crates in corner, tool boxes, race car parts......


 I don't don't doubt the story COULD have happened.....but from the source I don't know if it DID happen. 


And anyway.....it's a freakin story.   I don't break down the inconsistencies of your Harry Potter books!   

This was really interesting. I was totally unaware that Alabama had laws.....   




...oh don't hate, people. It a joke.   

I had a nice talk with an antique dealer at an estate sale today.
We started on a '40's tin toy in box for $20.  I wanted it for $5. Showed him eBay buy-it-now for $7-10.
He said five years ago it would have been $100. But eBay has saturated the market with antiques. Where as people couldn't find stuff before, now things aren't so rare.

Said he doesn't even sell furniture anymore from past he '60s. The people of buying age want the stuff that their grand parents had. That's old to them.

And china is dead.  Again, eBay has it saturated so it's easy to ind that broken piece of grandmas fine china.  That and no one does formal dinners.  And it's to easy to go get quality, nice looking  cheap.

Baby boomers dieing off so lots of stuff around. Ease of Internet buying......

He too said that a lot of his best selling stuff is from the 60s & 70s. It's all buried in peoples attic and it was the age of throw stuff out and thus hasn't it the Internet as hard. 

Anyway, why he runs estate sales now. Cause people don't research things as much.



Think thats why I've sold well on Craigslist over eBay.   People get instant gratification.  See it, buy it.  get to touch and look at.  They don't have 30 others to look at. Bit more 'rare'
 Dont Think to themselves "oh I can get it anytime"

I already grabbed the one thing I really . Was pissed cause there were a few items I wanted that disappeared.  Some old tools and fishing gear.  Some had only value to me, some were very valuable but I would never have sold them.

What gets me is no one on that side of the family sells so they grab but then let it sit in there garage!
If your going to use it, no matter the value, take it! It's yours, enjoy.   And if your going to take it cause it's worth money, great. Make a buck.  But don't let it just sit when someone else could either use it or make money. 

At least I have one thing over them.  They dont know the value of things.  My dad said the gold tableware is suddenly gone.  Told him good!  Only place to get a decent amount for that is eBay and no way do I want to try and ship it.  I could never carry that thing upstairs without flatware going everywhere! lol

Soon whoever took it will realize that gold flatware is just electroplated stainless steal. Gold buyers won't even take it (unless it's silver underneath, which this set is not)

I'm looking at the furniture, old board games, misc dishes and kitchen stuff.......pretty sure everything I'm looking at, in their mind is goodwill or dump items. 

But who knows what will be left when my cousin moves out.


(my cousin is a girl cheesehead.....and No, not even close to her size. She's got a good 50lbs on me and a country girl thru-n-thru.   She' d kick my......      ).    . lol