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Welcome to the Online Storage Auctions Forum / Re: Alias
« on: January 23, 2012, 12:15:10 PM »
Holy crap, talk about making a ok living. Dude should get a coffee can and double his money, pan for scrap and big for scrap. Dude could net 100k a year. Lol

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Maybe you should ask this lance guy on here, sounds like he has all the answers to ST, maybe he can set you up a date to have Barry, Moe, Dave or the Bubba guys buy your item.haha

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General Storage Auction Talk / Re: ST site
« on: January 23, 2012, 11:52:12 AM »
Why should tenants benefit from increased popularity?  How much a unit goes for should be dictated by content of locker showing. Not by foot traffic or hyping up crap units.  You pay to store **** that ain't worth anything, tough luck this shouldn't be a tenant bail out session or a take my **** I don't want session.

If you spent time telling people to think before bidding(rather then giving readers allusions of grander) sane and old time bidders wouldn't have as much of a problem with you or yor website.

I may be new to this but I see the problems others also see in you.  Free advertising, laziness, and protecting your interests all under the guse of protecting tenant who don't need to be protected.

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Reality Shows about Storage Auctions / Re: Storage Wars: Dallas
« on: January 23, 2012, 10:18:38 AM »
We have an application portal up on our website: StorageTreasures.com

It would be cool to have someone from this site make it on the show. I know there are lots of people who dont like the idea of the show, but knowing all the buyers personally I can tell you they are happy to be on SW.

What do you have to loose? ...and if you are one of those non believers and you are not truly involved in some way that makes you eligible...sign up and see if they see through your game. Then report back.

Lance


Geez I wonder why they're happy to be on storage wars let it be perhaps that you pay them? I'm thinking so! But sure let's see the next storage wars you come out with maybe I'll put my name and I don't expect anything because you're looking for people who are as fake as the Shows are.

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General Storage Auction Talk / Re: ST site
« on: January 23, 2012, 09:26:37 AM »
acman,

You have not spent one second looking at who is behind ST. Sure there are ties to the show, however the owners of the site are the top storage operators in the country and the top lien law attorneys in the storage industry. ST has not sensationalized anything and is still in its early development. The main goal of the site is to make an equal playing field for all.

If you are a true auction hunter you know how the industry works, or more accurately does not work regarding storage auctions. We will have systems in place soon to maximize accuracy, however you are well aware that sometimes just getting a storage facility to answer a phone is challenging, much less update auction hunters.

The site will continue to get better and there are many new tools and resources close to release.

We will continue to work hard for the Auction Hunters,  Auctioneers, Storage Facilities and the Tenant who in in lien. We work to protect all.

ST

Lance Watkins

I haven't? Funny enough I believe Don Dotson is one of the creators of the website, so no I haven't done my homework at all. I also find it funny enough that a lot of the top auctioneers seem to be staging the units, this has been told to me by people who have been in the auction scene longer than me and not just in my area. Probably isn't it odd that I hear about it's mostly the top auctioneers sites around. Yeah that's $3000 bid we'll get yeah a nice commission. The only playing field  you're leveling is padding your auctioneers commission. your emails from your site telling people what they might find one In every 100 lockers is pretty funny, but also rather pathetic. maybe one of these days you could tell people what this is really like that it's hard work and that you're not always going to find great stuff. Let me see an email like that.

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Stories about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Scene #1...January, 2012
« on: January 20, 2012, 09:58:40 AM »
Going to one auction today; 12 units; haven't had auction for a year ..... what's up with that?
Will report later on crowd and prices....not very optimistic about either.


So some of these tenants are charged for a year of rent even after being locked out?

If so each units gonna need a grand to pay up past due rent.

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Stories about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Scene #1...January, 2012
« on: January 20, 2012, 09:06:10 AM »
Will agree with you there.

Hope it works on selling though.  ;D Why we have so much at the Thrift. Adult Christmas.  ;D

I may do the Blair auctions in March and April just for the shuts and giggles of seeing what fools will bid up to.

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I stay away from the ones that have obvious signs of black mold and rips and tears.  I actually am lucky that because times are so hard, mission houses are buying beds as long as they aren't bad.  I'd say I have passed up on the winning bid T least 5 times because of mattresses or mattress volume.

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Like in my state its in the newspaper and online telling people not to support those that buy from storage auctions. They state before you buy online ask the person if this was bought at a storage auction and if so tell them you dont support people that buy from these types of people. Its stupid and you lose out on sales because of it.
Sounds like a former locker owner who lost their locker. That or it's somebody who always says we need to play nice in the sandbox or your taking advantage of people person. Wish someone would punch that writer in the face.

Sounds like one of those damn Occupier people.

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If I remember correctly you're somewhere in the northwest, and some months ago some new buyer was complaining she couldn't get rid of mattresses and I think she was in the same area.

SO, my question is....

...given those high costs for disposing of mattresses, what do people in your area do with them?  I guess if one lived in a rural area they could be burned or buried on private property, but for those who can't do that, what do they do...abandon them along country roads ?

Just curious as they go straight to the county dump in my area and are not extra cost, but in some metro areas in California they are billed at extra prices when taken to dumps.
I'd imagine if people don't dump on roadsides and such they illegally dump in big apartment places where the extra junk won't be noticed.  Why do I say this, see it all  the time at the apartment complex I work at.

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Reality Shows about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Hunters is FAKE!!!
« on: January 19, 2012, 10:38:18 AM »
All you have to do is take $30,000 worth of inventory to the flea market and you will sell it for $3,000 in 6 hours! LOL

Lol, speakin the truth!

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Stories about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Scene #1...January, 2012
« on: January 19, 2012, 10:33:01 AM »
I think it just amazes me how these prices are still going for so much! I know that a fool and his money are soon parted, but this is outrageous.

 I mean I can see what you guys paid for units pre and post SW because of my Sealed bid auction and hitting public storage places. I just wish I had done this 3 or 4 years ago when I originally heard about this. My only hope is that one day SW will at least put something at the begining of the show saying that lockers don't always hold antiques and that this is not a get rich quick method. But I realize that this will never be the case.

Question to everyone else here.  Do you guys try to inform people who are looking into getting into this or newbs at the auction hoping to get a locker no matter what?  I just wonder if it would have an impact on prices?

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So I just watched the first SW ever(never have before oddly enough), and damn you can tell everyone is getting payed.

Last year Hester had 2 old beater type cube trucks, now has a whole damn fleet of trucks and trailers.  Jarrod goes from a chrysler 300 to a lifted tricked out truck and Darrell goes from a 99 ram to a 2010 lifted truck also tricked out and a Vette. Damn!  Are people sure on the amounts these guys get paid per episode? It's gotta be well over someone's original estimate of 11k an episode.

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Best moment of the night:

After ripping a box apart to get at a sewing machine, Barry says "It's new... in the box"

Pan down to said destroyed box.   :D

Mehhhh, still can say NIB, just so long as the box wasn't where the money was. Styrofoam helps his cause in reselling it. Now if he was selling on eBay, that's another story.

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Where the heck is Jarrod?

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