Welcome to the boards. I think I almost went to the same auction your talking about today but couldn't sneak out of work. Was it the U Store It on Highland?

Sounds like I didn't miss much. though.

You mentioned your in the car business. I have a buddy looking for a 95 Jag XJ6, I think '96 as well if its the same body and model and everything. If you ever come across them at an auction I got a buyer for you shoot me a PM.

I thought you brought up another interesting point as well. The whole get rich quick aspect of some of the advertisements for books and programs.

Honetly the % of people who will get rich is probably 1% or less. Can you make a good living just doing storage auctions. Sure you can and its a great way to make a living being your own boss. I would venture to say majority of the people who regularly attend auctions at least from those I know and talk to and even on boards do it as a supplement to another job or another form of income.

Do some people get rich? Absolutely but how oftne are million dollar comic books or hundreds of thousands of dollars in precious metals found right.

Personally though this kind of made me think of MLM programs. I've been to many meetings and they are all the same. You hear about how much money can be made. Some guy talks about how he was working a respectable job but missing out on time with his family and is now rich beyond his wildest dreams vacationing with his family, etc.

I've heard of trolls but never heard of the flaming thing though I do recognize what they are describing.

I think a more simplified version of a troll is someone who goes on a forum and literally talks like an idiot five year old or just says outrageious and controversial stuff to get other people worked up. If you ignore them they have no fun and go away, if people get worked up it fees the fire so to speak.

As for the flaming thing. Their description is kind of odd and confusing but basically people who attack others and go totally off topic. Here's a good example of one...

city-data.com/forum/chicago-suburbs/1269321-naperville-subdivisions-tall-grass-white-eagle-2.html

Basically someone asked a question about a neighborhood they were considering moving to. About two pages into the thread the discussion somehow turned into a discussion fo what's middle class and the last 2-3 pages are just back nad forth insults and arguments that have absolutely nothign to do with the intended thread.

I think it's good that threads take detours assuming they are offshoots of the intended topic nad not just random discussions that have nothing to do with it.

So the fame has gone to Ton's head. Being in one episode of CSI and playing biker number two in some 1997 b-list movie must do that to ya...lol.

Brings up an interesting point though. Now that the characters from the show are recognized and Z list celebrities I think that affects the show negatively, makes it even less realistic, people hamming it up for camera time, etc.

I'll use Jersey Shore for example. Love it or hate it, it's like a car crash, Im addicted and cant stop watching. First season it was a bunch of idiot kids from Jersey acting like idiots but it was somewhat authentic. Second season they all started getting ego's, start to be minor celebrities, etc. Just changes the whole premise of hte show now that they are all making 5 mil a year with hydroxycut, and makeup lines and whatever else. Wondernig if the same thing is going to happen to storage wars.

Just wanted to add one more thing. TC, Checked otu the blog section of your site, you got some good articles on there. That's a great addition to your site. Not only is having a blog good for your search engine ranking but content is the reason people visit a site so that will get you repeat visitors.

I had a buddy who started a sports handicapping site I helped him set up. The site told about him, about the packages and you coudl buy the packages but that's all it was, no updates, no contnet, etc. He wanted to set up affiliate programs. I helped him out with it but it was pretty pointless. Just the nature of his site was once someone came and bought a package they got their picks emailed to them so they really had no reason to return until they needed to reup and buy another package amonth later or year later. I kept telling him to start a blog, write some articles, add some content both for SEO and to give people a reason to return to the site. He never did it and his affiliates never made him any money.

You got some interesting articles so it will help you in search engine rankings and give people a reason to check the site frequently. Your situation is a lil diff than my buddies in that I assume people come to your site and login to view auctions rather than have them emailed, at least that's what it looks like to me. Regardless though its still a great idea and good for your site ahving that blog.

hollywoodreporter (dot) com/review/pawn-queens-tv-review-185354

Another good article that's reviewing the show Pawn Queens. I think the comments are even funnier than the article. Basically they say the show is boring, the people who run the store are idiots and just b/c the new thing is shows about jobs ie. deadliest catch, dirty jobs, etc, etc, etc this is one they could have passed on.

I'm surprised it got picked up. Lastyear it was on green channel or some odd channel for a while and now got picked up by lifetime.

I've been to this shop several times. I have NEVER seen the lady's there except the one time they were filming. It's basically the odler guys business the ladies are just for the show. The shops is run poorly and is kind of a joke. The younger guy with the spiked blonde hair is a nice guy, gives fair prices, very friendly. The older guy is an ass. Crabby, an idiot and acts like your inconveniencing him by being in the store whether you are buying or selling.

Adsense is tough but imho I think its still better than most other affiliate programs where people have to actually buy something or sign up for something.

For example apple vacations has a good one $74 per vacation booked reguardless of where or how much. Sounds good but you have to get hundreds of visitors just to get someone to click the ad and even then who's to say they are going to book? If they dont or if the cookie goes away and they book or they book from another CPU you don't get paid. I like adsense in that you get paid per click and I think maybe even a little if you have high impression numbers.

I've heard Yahoo has something similar to adsense, I've never really looked into it though. Google also has google affiliates which doesn't have that good of choices of affiliates and you run into the same problem as my apple vacation example. I do however like it in the sense that you dont have to have a million diff accounts with diff passwords each hooked to a bank account, etc. Google affiliates and adsense are all through the same platform.