Today was my 3 facility caravan day.  18 units up for sale between the 3 places.  Was heavy on the regulars today.  Of the 30 people (12-15 bidders) we had 3 noobies.  Think they more watched then do anything.  All of the units went to regulars.  Nothing of great interest this run.

Nice acman.  I must of pissed of Lady Luck and Murphy is screwing with me.   I'm coming up short so far on units.  Starting to have inventory overload here soon.

Keep up the runnint tally.  Love to read what others find when I'm in a slump.

Was you at this auction by yourself or something?  Even a auction where was only 5 of us the lowest unit sold was $25 that had anything in it.

Well my first silent auction is now logged in the books.  Two different places had silent auctions starting at 10am.  So saw only a few regulars at my location but still a large crowd.  This one had the most units as of Thursday but most people paid friday.  Crowd was about 50 people with I'd say 30 bidders.  Two heavy hitting regulars, another regular that deals in smalls, two of us "noobie" regulars, a few non-regulars in my area but you do see them at auctions, and a bunch of noobies.  I'd say 1/2 the crowd was new people.  I expected this with a saturday auction.  However, most all of the units went to people I either know by name or sight.  I picked up two units for $128 ($27 and $101).  I really didn't want the $101 unit but I got stuck with it.  May be kicking myself in the butt later for putting such a bid down on the last unit of the day.

Ah - I wondered if that was it.  I have my first silent auction Saturday morning.  Should be an interesting day.

Today was nice.  Took a long lunch to hit a auction.  Glad I did.  Had 22 units listed in paper and 18 up for bid.  Compared to yesterday the crowed was AWSOME.  Only 5 of us to start with and then a 6th person showed up 1/3 of the way in.  So we had 3 regulars, then myself, and a lady from california.  The sixth person I've seen around so not sure if he is a regular or noob like myself.  I think the lady is the same one the regulars were just talking about that dropped a grand on a locker to buy it, then rented it for a month, and is just going to cherry pick it and leave everything else.  We all pitched in to squeeze her out.  Don't think she won anything.

This place is rumored to cherry pick items.  All the units but the first two already had locks cut off and no tabs or anything on them.  So I looked at everything with caution.  Since the crowd was small the prices were small also.  A number of units went for $150 - $200, with a number going for under $100.  I purchased a unit for $70 that has some paintings in it, two dryers, weights, and a few odds and ends.  Had it at $35 till the lady jumped in.  Really wanted the painting as years ago I paid $65 for a smaller painting and know my wife will love it.  Plus I "offered" to clean out the unit next to it that no one wanted.  It had a metal shelf (which I wanted), some bags of prob trash, and 4-5 couch type cushions.  All in all a productive afternoon.

Nice Teacher - sounds like some nice units but funky prices.  Today for me was backwards.  Today was the 7 facility place where I purchased 2 nice units for myself back in June.  Well this day finds only 10 units, with 2 places with 0 units.  First facility of the morning has about 20 bidders which is pretty normal.  A few new faces but mostly regulars.  Both units here look pretty good with tools and such and go for $500 plus.  Second facility has 1 unit and all of a sudden we have 50+ people running around.  A few of the regulars headed out 1/2 way.  By the time we got to the last facility I swear we had 50-75 people.  In face one of the so-so units went for over $700 to one of the noobies.  Most of us was asking each other "who is this guy?"

Friday I have an auction that sounds like the company cherry picks stuff before the auction.  I'll go if work permits just to see.  Saturday I found out both auction locations are silent bids.  So I'm trying to figure out should I go to the 20 unit one or the 3 facility 42 unit place with one of the units near a high income community.  Both are at the same time

Dang - got to love when you can get a unit that cheap.  Alot easier to make money back when you get stuff that cheap.

I'm glad none of my auctions to date have been like that.  Of course I was warned away from one of the late evening auctions by a few different regulars one week.  They said the place normally has plants in the crowd to drive up the price and the people running it don't know jack.  I even have one place that lets you go in the units to look around.

Fayettenam Man - I love $1 and $5 units.  It's easy to pick up a few nice items if you don't mind taking out the trash so to speak.  I would think your furniture could get $50-$100 easy.  Of course I know jack about furniture.  Good luck.

Caravan in the morning so I'm a little excited.  Is the same caravan I picked up 2 units in June.  While I've not made much real money back on the units both units were purchased for personal stuff and not really for re-sale.