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Stories about Storage Auctions / Won Two units last week..
« on: April 21, 2014, 09:49:10 AM »
Competition was tough...  going for a lot more than they were worth..  I got two low ball units, one for $70 one for 10$ - The 70$ unit was nothing much but clothes, Couple purses, An obama bobble head, a Time warner cable remote control,  it was at least a small unit.. 5x5 

The 10$ unit was a 5x15 unit, looked like total junk...  Found tubs of really classy gentleman's shoes... A stereo, New crock pot, new dishes, new kitchen container (for flour/sugar/etc) all matching in red.  A set of really nice speaker, an old school entertainment system, Dresser,  some sports bobble heads, couple nice pocket knives..  the tubs were not the typical rubber maid tubs, but nice sturdy tubs too.  also got a very unique bed with a couple tall things they go beside each side of the bed, with a overheard lighting attachment (vintage).  and a nice Microfiber suede couch. and some heavy solid brass planters.    not a fortune this week but should triple my money after taking into account my time..

What do you guys value your time at?? I figure my time is worth 25$ an hour so when I calculate my profits on it, that's what I deduct.. more so for my own records just to get an idea of what I am actually making.

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Stories about Storage Auctions / Furniture ... Hidden in locker
« on: April 01, 2014, 01:58:39 PM »
Got a Good locker online.. surprised me.. When they opened the door, I saw a HUGE couch (great I thought) a mattress, huge old school tv.. I thought Great.. Time for trash duty..   Well moved the mattress aside, 2 NEWish Flat screen tv's still had the protective film on the frame of them.. 39" hisense and 46" Samsung    Sold them to a buddy for double what I paid.. Onto the couch.. I unburried it.. It was a 2 piece sectional, brown leather, in great shape(dusty)  Sold it on craigs list for a good profit.  so now 3 items gone turned 150$ into $600 without really getting sweaty..   The Mattress was new king size with matching set of box springs, still in factor wrapped plastic with tags.  Would have been a couple hundred there at least, except the far end was against the wall and somehow had water damage.  Someone wanted the box springs, so told them hauld away the mattress and they are yours and poof cleared out.

Still has 6 speaker enclosures, A Technic receiver, couple CD players, nice pots and pans,  a baby swing, car seat, some leaded Crystal glasses, Lot of yard sale stuff.  And a bunch of clothes, some name brand jeans that I am donating.

Oh and a nice bakers rack that found a home in my kitchen.   All in all about a 1000$ unit I guess.  I went ahead and rented this one as it is close to me and I buy a lot from this facility.  One before this I spend 60$ on (same place) and tripled that on a play station 3 and some ebay items..

This last on did not have my most common item to find in it.. not a single Acholics Annomyous book.. not a one... (don't laugh I sold a 1st printing of the second edition on ebay for 60+$)

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Online Storage Auctions / I've been doing this for a while now.. about 2 months really
« on: February 27, 2014, 02:13:56 PM »
I know no time at all but I've done other things almost like it before.  In the last month I was watching 5 auctions going on at the same facility on an online site. Anyway, they were all ending like 10 minutes apart.. Good I thought.. Well that being said, I bid on them as they were getting close.  The same person kept winning the units over and over on me. The last one was garbage.. you could tell, bags of used coke cans, trash on the floor, matresses, well it was the same bidder. I bid up stupid on it..at 50$ it was more than I wanted, but I put a 200$ bid on it. It sold to them for 210.00 no great loss, well this week I happened to seem a couple of the other units BACK up for auction and the same bidder winning on them.   Anyone thing that just maybe they are just doing this to drive prices up at their facility?  Or is it just me?? 

There is another facility here in town I won't buy from, bough one unit, looked good, everything was broken, dirty, nasty matresses, I found someone to take it all away for free giving them the couple thing that were not trash. I've watched their units even from others in the chain, they talk them up big time, listing stuff as if it was GOLD, you know "Nice flat screen tv" when its a CRT flat screen tube..

Most of the places are really nice to helpful.. Wish there was a rating for facilities doing this junk.  I mean sure people do leave behind trash.. but not like this. 4 different sets of family pictures, an eldery potty chair.  I've came out ahead on all my units so far, only one that was more work than it was worth out of 9 units.

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