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Stories about Storage Auctions / Heres one for the books
« on: August 03, 2011, 09:47:10 PM »
I went to and auction on the second. had 5 lockers 3 had paid up so 2 went up for auction. first unit had some ford rims an angel statue car speakers and trashbags, box's. the auctioneer tried to start the unit at $50 no takers so she said ok someone start it so it started at $5 a lady that never looked at the locker bought it for $50 was easy to keep track with 6 of us there.
 We went to the next lkr a 10x30 well it was full of old well used beat up furnitur some had been band aided with duck tape. I mean it look like an epaleptic had a siezure with the blunt end of an axe on this stuff. one old lady there with her husband said OH look at the felt pads on the feet of that old tabel that was it HAHAHA. well the bidding started same thing $5 here $5 there I'm like WTH I jumped the bid from $25 to $100 the auctioneer seemed confused LMAO well it was just three of us left in so she started going down the line $5 a wack so when she got back to me I said $200 she was confused even more and ask you want it for $200 I said yep she started back in the line $5 again im like WTF so she came back to me I held up 3 fingers she was like ok buddy how much this time I said $300 read em and weap. she started back in at $5 incraments I just shook my head and turned around leaving the two bidders after about 5 min an $50 dollars later I turned around as she started speeding up. the guy just had his hand up not looking and she was taking bids off the wall against him the lady had quit bidding she ran him to $500 when he went to look who was bidding she jumped him to $535 and closed on him before he even looked back I was Laughing my Arse off.. there wasnt $200 worth of stuff in there.
 Him and his wife sell the stuff at yard sales. all I can say is if your going to bid pay attention..The lady that was the other bidder looked at me and asked was that what I thaught I saw I smiled and said yea it was what he asked for LMAO.
       The Auctioneer was talking the locker up as we walked off, makeing out like he stole it HAHAHAHAHA...

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General Storage Auction Talk / Re: small town or big cities?
« on: July 31, 2011, 06:43:28 PM »
ok if your a rancher or farmer then how much land do you have ? lets talk "barns". so why the hell would they need a storage shed HAHAHAHA.. its mostly those that work at the dairy queen or live on welfair, run a cash register at a store some farm labor perhaps. but bottom line is in my parts anyhow small towns do not have good stuff. I have to goto the bigger city's. now if mr banker dies perhaps if he wrapped and stored it corectly odds of 1 in 100.
 Also this is desert so dust holy hell dust get's a hard crusted 1/4" thick on stuff easy and at over 150 degrees in them lockers in summer time plastic and rubber starts to melt and put off oils that stick this dust to it even plastic cloths hangers etc. in 30 days are trash. baby stroller handels yuck..sticky mess so its funny to watch noobies grab that stuff after a buy HAHAHAHA... so yes it limites what you can resell unlike up north or back east. a fishing rod handel can be mush on a new $200 fishing pole never used making it junk fishing worms melt and they have some bad oils as well eating luers etc so if stuff was just thrown in the locker worms are everywhere in that tackel box = trash.
 also in bigger cities pavement and lots of it = less dust but more heat. so you dont have to beat all that damn dirt out of the fabric in furnature. them oils from hangers and rubber stuff arn't quite as bad when melted onto the wooden or what ever they are sitting on etc. without the dust to crust it up like cement or J.B. weld but its still there.
them neat plastic storage containers turn black on top and there is no getting the dust off its melted into the plastic bonded by the oils in it. if they have been in there over a year they start cracking and have dried out and started to rott. cardboard is better.
Anyrate this is my neck of the woods anyhow im sure its different other places.

I'm 90 miles from walmart and 150 from a mall. dump runs are free if my dump dont take it I have lots of land it can rot on car batteries etc.. LOL so thats how I manage to offset my fuel price and drive these distance's no dump fees. and going to the big city is like a hollywood auction to small town country folks here just because the unites are clean when the door opens less spiders and rodents etc. also.


UV is so bad here you could fill a gallon milk jug with water sit it in the yard this time of year full sun in 60 days you goto pick it up and the handel comes off in your hand it has rotted that fast. without water 30 days its brittle and rotted. its a real game changer that the tv shows dont show.

I'll say it once again this is how it is in southern New Mexico ,AZ to Elpaso TX. come on out and give it a wirl hahahaha..

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The Lounge / Aluminum being hoarded
« on: July 31, 2011, 01:06:58 PM »
from the looks of it aluminum could be takeing a nice price hike soon.

deathandtaxesmag.com/125638/goldman-sachs-hoarding-aluminum-why/

"Goldman Sachs owns several aluminum storage warehouse. In fact, Goldman is hoarding more than a million tonnes of the stuff. Goldman’s warehoused industrial metal aluminum accounts for roughly a quarter of the estimated global inventories."

Thats a sheet load of aluminum.

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What's it Worth?? / Re: What is it (3)?
« on: July 30, 2011, 08:57:19 PM »
 It looks just like an old field sample testing case HAHAHA.. it holds vials of field samples and test chemicals etc. my dad used to have one for doing soil samples on the farm to test the minerals in it for fertalization etc. back in the 60's. good luck. To bad you didnt get the beaker and glass vials with the black plastic screw caps. you could play hairy potter LOL. as they had different types of acids in some of the vials, they made kewl smoke when introduced to water (sulpher). I never got my but paddeled as bad as I did when I got caught playing with it lol.

Any rate I can't tell for 100% sure but Thats what poped into my old head when I seen it.

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New to Storage Auctions? / ODDS
« on: July 28, 2011, 11:18:07 PM »
If I was a betting man I'd have to say a reality show about bubble gum machine venders getting rare coins should rate right up there with finding a fortune in a storage locker. simply put one could go in business with a realestate agency to clean homes that are put up for sale by siblings of older folks that have passed or were put in old folks homes and they wanted to sell the home but dont have time to clean it out to find old antiques. etc. the bottom line here is how many other ways can you think of to find rare antiques or coins etc. than storage lockers. I mean after all the bottom line is Odds are Odds and one place is just as good as another. but when your out numbered the odds go up.
Take them coin for $$ machines you see at the store "Coinstar" are set up to kick out rare coins or off size into a cup for the machines owner to inspect computer programing has come a long way.
I can see it now gamblers that are on a gambler a holic list in vegas sueing a locker company now because of a loss and they let them gambel on a locker and lose there $$ forced to eat dog food. lawsuit hitting the main stream any day now. I guess if they couldnt find it in a locker they will get it in court. Holly wood could be sued for baiting them wouldnt that be something to see.
yea its out of hand. LMAO I love it. so really why fight it when you could own it. when you get right down to it whats the odds become with the crowds? are the odds better somewhere else with less compotition? whats everyones thoughts here? is this something you would want newbies to really try?

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New to Storage Auctions? / Re: first auction need advice please
« on: July 28, 2011, 10:37:10 PM »
Dont let the excitement and pressure do the bidding. at the same time dont let it give you cold feet dont worry about looking like an idiot take a list of pointers with you and when you feel over whelmed refer to it and calm down. then its ok to pull the trigger when you feel right, and allways try to stay in sight of the auctioneer if you want him to see your bid and expect the crowd to chuckel but if you have to get the auctioneers attention its ok to yell YEP just once wile pointing to the stars like mikel jackson then when you win you can do the moon walk just so they will all remember you HAHAHAHA.A sure bet to get you a gig on tv if the film crew shows up. The idea is to have fun if your not having fun go home and hang it up.

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  Darn you almost got to bid on lockers filled with dimonds and barrels of oil..HAHAHA guess they couldn't get the BMW 745I into a locker. im sure those who were suposed to setup the lkrs with goodies overslept and are now selling tacos on a street corner again.
Anyhow Thanks for shareing I enjoyed it.

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I see this as a double edged sword this will also back fire as storage unites get built all over the U.S. just to scam people. also there will be new auctioneers coming out of the wood work. So I would say the whole damn industrie stands to get diluted from every angel. it's the next houseing boom lookout below when the bubble pops the industrie will be so raped, pillaged, and left so miss trusted that the winners will be those that build the new alternative to lockers or a new type of lkr that is more secure I'm sure lkr break ins and crime rate is at an all time high right now.

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Here I got one for you I went to an auction (circus) on monday that is under new management. well no personal locks allowed on there storage unites anymore thats right they provide the lock and that includes to leased lkr's. So they have a key to every lkr on site so they can enter long before a unite go's up for auction and cherry pick at anytime they wish. even write it off as theft if a tennant pays up and returns for there stuff. So yea if you win you dont get a key you have to goto the office and get them to unlock the locker for you. gate code holders get a copy of a none copyable key to the lkr when they lease a lkr.
So Hows that for an open house, free range policy for tennants to be robbed by management...

 So here is my theory if I can understand the flaw in this so will the people that lease lkrs there so the odd's of a good find there just went down since new management took over...

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New to Storage Auctions? / Re: I got an Auction coming up
« on: July 27, 2011, 11:52:02 PM »
I agree wile my area covers 300 miles and times are tough in these parts. I seen regulars still going for items that pertain to construction like a kid in a candy store just makes no sense to me, as building has stoped dead in its tracks so that stuff will be hard to move. I will be hitting another in that town tuesday then up north 45 miles of there for another same day and If I see how it plays with a lower number of lockers up. as I noticed folks there from a large city 50 miles away a few said they had been flushed out looking for deals and im talking folks with stores etc. being newbies them selfs in a small town just to find some relief from the big city crowds.

What gets me is these new managers catering to this promoteing it to keep the $$$ coming in they seem to be ready to take there facility auctions main stream like the tv show so with this its a god sighn it might take it longer to fade away at that facility just figured id see how it works with less lkrs up etc.

Then head west if needed if it plays the same there these fools can have it I will hang it up for a wile and maybe try some luck at a old silver mine I bought a wile back at an auction for something to do between bus runs the rest of this year.

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New to Storage Auctions? / Re: I got an Auction coming up
« on: July 25, 2011, 06:50:46 PM »
OK I went and boy did I get a lesson. I was greeted by a large crowd new management and the auctioner was new. hell I felt like a newbie LOL.. didnt get any pics as they asked folks not to. anyhow I got there early and was in line to sighn up when here came a guy with a basket handing out pens and brochure's business cards and candy. he said there's soda and water on ice over there and on the other side were bar-b-qin hot dogs there all free help yourself it was about then the balloons flying all over the place sunk in I was like wheres the radio station I asked as he was handing the lady stuff behind me he just laughed. I felt like they shoulda had a clown handing out cotton candy or juggling out there LMAO. anyhow the prices matched the crowd the radio shack lkr had construction tools power saws exstension cords etc in it I had it pegged for $150 WRONG it went over $700 I was like look out lowes and home repo you have compotition now. all 9 lockers went sky high in price. the old lady unit $1,500 alot of hangers and OLD Trash old rod iron patio tabel took alot of room the wheelchair was a hover around but still WOW.... them folks got paid for the drinks and hot dogs they were only free to none bidders and I wont be back there for atleast 6 months.

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Went to one today small town but there were over 75 people there 9 lkr's the storage facility had balloons free botteled water on ice with the storage Co. name on the label,  and soda's even hotdogs I kept looking for the radio station or a clown to come around the corner handing out cotton candy. lined up to sighn in and here come a guy with a basket handing out candy, pens and business cards.  the prices matched the crowd High. seen some cheap plastic handeled silverware in a box with two used matress's go for $75 with no hidden suprise's unless someone stuffed a matress with money. I went there and I saw the WOW factor therefore I will not return to that place for atleast 6 months. 6 bidders in the crowd. if I hadnt driven 80 miles id of got in my truck and left first sight of the circus.

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General Storage Auction Talk / Re: Storage facilaty
« on: July 25, 2011, 05:52:35 PM »
depends on where you are at there are clues that will give that away dust on box's etc. in my area 90 days builds alot of dust in a lkr sometimes of year up to 1/4", so if someone touched it there would be hand prints or the dust dumped off the box also foot prints etc. spider webs are also a good indacation if you can tell one has been disturbed odds are the manager pulled something off top or out of the lkr that was not a large item.
But again this is why we bid only on what we see...

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General Storage Auction Talk / Re: small town or big cities?
« on: July 23, 2011, 11:44:59 PM »
In my experience as a small town guy. everyone knows everyone so if your Mr Money baggs with loker 115 everyone in town will fight for it. The local coffee shop full of old men will have beaten the subject to death before auction day in the big city its easy to hide amongst numbers etc. So its easyer for Mr Money baggs to hide.
 In small towns people are ranked according to how much gold you have etc. people make it a point to find out it's like a pecking order. and the crows will pick everyone apart that they think they can out wizzz...

 So in a small town unless they are sleeping your odds are lower I have a lkr coming up that is in this catagory im just hoping with the guy being from out of town that nothing sticks out when the door opens I can confirm its who I believe it is and steal it. as it's a 10x30 and the owner didnt live in this town but made a nice 6 figures a year. This is a once in ten year deal.

I'd wrather be in a big city crowd where no one knew Mr Money baggs. but this is just me.

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Stories about Storage Auctions / Re: Trashy unit =(
« on: July 23, 2011, 11:19:14 PM »
Makes one wonder about these folks that just take this stuff home and tossing it in there garage. the roach's and spiders must love there home not to mention stowed away rodents. Black widows are quite common here and carry a nasty bite.  I may travel 150 miles to an auction buy, load, and go I do have an out building the stuff go's in and it gets a few bug bombs and closed doors before I leave. I have found these blue bars of rodent bait for .10 a bar I just take as many as I want out of a 5 gallon bucket toss em in a bag at my feed store and they eat these up seems like $1.00 worth last me 6 months.
 Wile I've killed a few snakes in lkrs I dont think I've ever brought any back that I know of anyhow.
yea even if theres a trashy lkr next door the buggs spill over to the good lkr next door.

At the verry least bug bomb your garage as soon as you close the door, and use lots of rodent bait in there.
I have bought good looking lkrs just to get into them to find the rodents have had a field day with the stuffing of that $1500 leather couch that I knew was good from what I could see when I bought the locker. chewed holes in the drawers of cabonates to get at the trash left inside. so yea take these rodents home and lets see your home with chewed wireing in a year. etc. etc. etc. $1.00 every 6 months I see as good insurance and its cheap. The bug bombs are a bit more pricey but well worth it for the agravation they can cause as well.

Trashy lockers are a verry large problem period in my opinion. but thats just my 2 cents.

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