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.
I watched the show twice and thought the same thing, how was it that the same 4 to 6 people out of a crowd of 20 win bid after bid?
answer: they were the only ones there bidding, the rest of the people in the crowd were planted and getting a fee from the show to stand there and look real.
the whole show was set up, fake.. all those shows are complete fake, with fights and arguments all set up as part of a script.
The worst thing that can happen to any auction is when the dealers come by.
If you are there you may as well go home.
My Dad dabbled in buying storage units, when he retired. He sometimes rented a booth in a flea market, and he made connections with other people there, who had booths full time, so he made a few bucks. It also helped that he had a portable building of his own, to store things in. You can't give away strands Christmas lights 47 weeks out of the year, but from the middle of November to the third week of December the sell like hot cakes.
These TV shows are about rivalry, but when he got to know some of the other regulars at the auctions, who were looking for particular categories of items, like construction equipment, or auto parts, he could sometimes make his money back right at a large unit, by selling air compressors, ladders or rims to guys who wanted them, but who were not prepared to buy a whole unit just to get those things.