Agreed

I am a person who will bid people up and I admit it and have no trouble with the concept. People do it to me too.
While it's true that I GENERALLY still want a locker I bid on (at a certain amount) I sometimes regret having made a last bid that landed me the locker...we all make mistakes sbell. But the point HERE is that I was fortunate that I had left and didn't get the locker. I was happy to find that out AFTER the fact.

Let us know however if you NEVER get a locker  that stings you when you DO pay that last bid amount you were confident in. If you never get stung you ARE a rare buyer indeed.

Don't get me wrong, I completely understand what you are saying.  You recognize that had you bought the locker, you would have lost money.  

We've certainly all ended up making well-reasoned bids on a locker only to have it turn into a turkey.  If someone claims that they have never lost money on a locker, he/she is as big of a liar as the guy who has to pump himself up by spewing self-aggrandizing stories.  My point is only that until you are actually able to sort through the locker, you haven't lost any money, really.  Until that point, you are still the wise speculator, making things happen.

In the case of the locker that you 'lost' but is offered to you at the end because the 'winner' defaulted, your point of view is still where it was when you were standing in front of the door calculating your 'drop dead' bid.  Therefore, any one of us would likely still buy the locker if 1) we still have the cash in our pockets and 2) our last bid wasn't above that 'drop dead' price.  Like many of us, I NEVER bid above my 'drop dead' price, so for us, only #1 applies.

Given all this, my takeaway from your ealier post still applies.  It behooves us to stick around at the end because a locker that interests us just might once again become available.

Or, as in the last line of my post directly above yours, luck out because you left. If I had stayed I would have been the 2nd highest bidder and I probably would have said "great, I'll take it at my last bid." If I had done that it would have been me that worked for days for virtually nothing to sell.  The former lkr owner had been a druggie and hoarder all in one...it was a losing locker and while I felt badly for my friend who got it, I was happy for me who didn't get it.

I thought about that, but at the end of the day, we bid what we are willing to pay for lockers that we want (with the exception of a few of us who claim to bid more than they believe lockers are worth).  Therefore, I would generally still want to buy that locker, assuming I didn't exhaust cash on hand with later purchases.  The odds that the locker was a loser didn't change since I made my earlier bid, after all.

I guess the takeaway from this is that it can pay to stick around after teh auctions are done even if you didn't win any.

Rule #1:  Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

Another thing to consider is where the auctions are located.  Auctions that are farther from the metro area may be less crowded. 

Anyone that buys storage lockers likely has a little bit of voyeur in him, so feel free to post the pics.

Incidently, you described the kind of lockers that I prefer.  I like to sort through the boxes to find what's hidden inside.  It's rewarding to then squeeze every nickle of profit out of them.  I much prefer that to buying lockers full of big furniture (unless the furniture is awesome.)

really! must be why I can't remember the last time I got a tax refund.

You appear to be confusing sales tax with income tax.  Sales tax collected is not income, so would not affect whether or not you receive a tax refund.