Yeah, I actually had to start a new ebay account a couple months ago after having one of those buy everything in the store types. The guy left me a mountain of bad feedback claiming he never got anything. Aside from knowing no one was going to buy from that ebay account again after seeing all this guy's feedback, I had to dispute it with paypal who ruled in favor of me and my list of tracking numbers. Then, I get charged back, paypal tells me there is nothing they can do as it was done by the customers bank. The whole thing ended so badly I made a new ebay account and now only use it as a last resort.

My biggest problem isn't even the CRT's. It's those damn rear projector tv's. One would think you could have a garage sale, wheel out a dozen 55-60" tv's that have hdmi hookups and be able to sell them for $25 a pop. One would be wrong. A few years back they flew out the door and you could always find them because no one wanted to move the big honkin things. Now they are a plague like mattresses taking up a lot of space and I cant get rid of them to save my life. Plus, unlike the endless parade of dingy and discolored mattresses, I cant burn them...

well 300 sq foot is too small. A couple couches and your shop would be feeling really small. Maybe your best bet is to try and split a corner of the store for a couple hundred a month to a business that does not need much space. A ups and fedex vendor,  a cable or satellite provider kiosk, maybe have an extra draw and rent floor space to a vending or arcade company. If you look in areas where business is suffering low traffic you can likely find someone willing to gamble a few hundred a month for better exposure. Put out some feelers, some of those ideas may be odd pairings, but they aren't competition and every extra set of feet that comes in will see your wares.

 Back when I was a young-in, my first vehicle was a beat up old pickup. Every Saturday morning it was my ritual to hit all of the new tire stores in my area. I'd sometimes pay $2-3 as a token for each used tire they had replaced, some places would just give them to me for free to avoid paying to dispose of them. In the afternoon when my truck was overflowing, I'd drive 30 miles up to a used tire shop in the city where I was paid $5-8 each for them.

I wish I could take credit for the idea but it was my aunt's. Maybe it was something people did back in the day. Regardless, as gas prices went up and I found ways of making better money on the weekends, I stopped doing it. Just curious if anyone else does something like this, recycling one shops junk and selling it to another.

Sure, it was here
ebay(dot)com/itm/261229020295

I think bmoney there just gave us the perfect example of why Saturdays are ruined. Bidding more than she even had to play pissing match like she saw on tv. Even when I started, I've never viewed other auction goers as anything but an additional resource, and if I couldn't unload something they were always just a finders fee away. It's this screw the other guy mentality that makes dealing with the Saturday crowd not worth dealing with.

In my area some of the more annoying auctioneers even put up ad's for Saturday auctions that feature wording like "just like on tv". They bring out hot dog carts and allow the 100 plus people that show up to bring their kids. You get to wade through grade schoolers and stroller moms to see the contents of a locker. The auctioneers know most of these people wont bid so they are happy making money selling them soda, chips and burgers.  When you see things go that direction, and auctioneers feeding off of it, no, you are not going to ever reclaim Saturdays.

In my early days of storage lockers I found what I thought were 5 1780's large cents in a locker. Back before the in god we trust when the motto was "mind your business." I marched into the coin shop with a puffed out chest and a smile on my face, then the fellow behind the counter promptly showed the the side of the coins where the faint word copy was lightly engraved. Still haven't found a good coin other than the occasional wheat pennies. .........one day