I've put a whole lot of stuff in storage. Not too many gold doubloons or antique rifles, or whatever. Usually, it's crap that I should have thrown out anyway. :-)
Makes me wonder if the interesting stuff is 1) Planted or 2) They need to buy 100 units a week to find 1 or 2 worth talking about.
Either way, it looks like a long, boring physical job, with very little payout.
They need to buy 100 units a week to find 1 or 2 worth talking about.
Either way, it looks like a long, boring physical job, with very little payout.
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Unless you have a retail thrift outlet and plenty of business connections to unload the crap that makes up 99%+ of the items you’re wasting your time.
I used to attend auctions before these shows came out ... and only bid if I could get a unit for 50% or less of the value I could see from the door. These shows ruined it ... it used to be that I would skip auctions in March/April/May because all the Haitians and Mexicans would be there with their tax return money and bid things too high... Now it’s year round.
It is number two. The participants admit to going to lots of auctions not filmed, and other people buying lots of units.
The two guys on Auction Hunters openly admit they only discuss the units that have something cool. According to the lead-in, they go through hundred of units each year to make a living at it. Better show, too.
Irony... We had a job right near a set of units in Concord CA, and the week after we were out there a guy got a rubbermaid bin full of gold and silver ($500K+ worth) out of a unit after shelling ~$1000 for it.
The company that runs that show did the auctions, but they apparently didn’t think that facility was going to produce anything interesting...
Blows my mind that someone would put that type of stuff in a storage unit, I’d sooner bury it on my land, or in the sticks...