Thanks for the great comments, hearing them is a great pick-me-up. I pretty much agree with everthing I read. I had not won a unit in a month and upped the risk factor and got burned a little. I think upping the risk is needed in the current environment but I won't get carried away like this one. I looked at it as a good learning experiance and I'm ready for the auction Monday after I get back from the beach. Good luck to everyone.

I passed on at least 40 units at several auctions before I bid and didn't win. A couple days later at a caravan I got my first 2. Have patience and a gameplan and you will do fine. I did not heed my own advice yesterday and learned a tough lesson about the storage auction business.

Got my first loser unit this weekend, and when I log in I'm back to noobie status. Wish I had been a looky loo yesterday, but it was just a matter of time I guess. 5 total hours of work cleaning out, 2 dump runs and a probable 40.00 loss. Oh well, it's fall break for the wife and kids and I'm on vacation for ten days. 

Wanted to give some numbers from this unit as I sold 90% of it in my recent yardsale. Bought this unit for 105.00, and made 208.00 so far. Used clothes-96.00, used coats and sweaters-40.00, misc. items-37.00, Avon products-35.00. So I doubled my money, got the 13 totes free and kept 40.00 worth of other stuff. Turned out to be a good little unit.

Not something I would do. I do bid on units I'm not interested in to break the boredom if the units are sucking, but I bail early enough not to run it up.

Congrats! You never forget your first.

Brand new human and synthetic hair extentions for black ladies. Not really weird, but a balding middle aged white guy selling them is.

Ok, day 1 is in the books. Started with rain this morning until 10am so i put all my hanging clothes just outside garage under tarps to make room to sell out of garage. Had sale from 6:30 till 4:00, brought in about 80-90 customers and did $500.00 in sales. Needless to say but I am very pleased. I know some of you have had a tough time with yardsales, but I live in a prime spot, great cul-de-sac neighborhood in a dense middle class population of a city of 125,000. I absolutely sold the hell out of clothing today. Volume is the key to clothing and I target units rented by women that are packed with clothes. When I sort units I toss any clothes that are not in excellant condition, I do not launder them, if they are really dirty they get tossed. All jeans, jackets, sweaters, skirts, dresses are hung and sold for 2.00 each. All other clothes are on tables sorted by womens/girls and mens/boys @ 50 cents. I put all used shoes under each clothes table and price at 1.00 each. Any really nice article in any category I price more with a tag. Brand new items are sold at 40% of retail price on tag. I had 75 pieces of new baby clothes on hangers with tags and sold 30 of them today. I individually priced all other items and only had about 10 people haggle with me for an extra buck or 2 off. My wife worked with me and we engaged every customer that walked up about what was available and at what prices. Some customers told us someone called them and said get to this sale just after they left our place, so that is exciting as I know what inventory at what price gets people out to buy. I advertised in newspaper, Craiglist and street signs. Weather looks good Sat so I hope to get rid of the rest of it. Will let everyone know how it finishes up.