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Too bad that's a a one in a million find. For a storage facility owner, storage auctions are as much of a problem as they are an opportunity. Some of them just consider the whole thing a headache:
Interesting, I was talking to an "old timer" today, whose children "helped" him clean out his house...he told me that they threw away all this "valuable" stuff...who knows...maybe they did?! He had lived in the same house for 94 years. Imagine that!
You may find valuable object, but they are most likely stolen. In this case, I think the comic book was stolen from Nicholas Cage.
You have absolutely no basis for what you are saying? Have you ever even been to a storage auction? What makes you think most likely valuable items are stolen? Anything to back up anything you have said?
I'm assuming you say it's stolen b/c why would somene leave something valuable right?
If someone falls behind on their storage bills and doesn't have family support or friends to loan them money they lose their unit, yes even if it has something really valuable in it.
Could be an older person died and their family didn't know they had a unit. Could be someoen went to jail and could no longer pay on a unit. Could be any number of things.
I bought a unit for $400. Had a 50" Phillips Plasma tv, pottery barn furniture, an antique bamboo chair worth about $500, bins and totes full of Thomas the Train toys about $500 worth even at used prices. About $200 worth of Pokemon cards. Sporting goods equip high end tennis rackets, etc. Basically a whole house worth of stuff.
From what I could gather it was a pretty well to do family because they obviously owned a very successful business, had tons of awarsds, etc. From what I could gather from the unit they moved to the phillipines and either forgot about or just deserted the unit.
If you've seen storage wars or auction hunters those shows are totally fake/staged. The real thing is nothing like that. 99% of the time you find average household crap, garbage cans, boxy old computer monitors, maybe a heavy old 27" tv, clothes, maybe a mattress or two.
There's defiantely money to be made but its more money you'd make at a fela market selling small dollar items. Its not like the shows where you buy unit with silver or some valuable antique and take it to your expert who quickly gives you 10k for it.
What a find! I remember listening to a program a couple years ago that talked about the people who make a hobby out of buying off the stuff from abandoned storage units. Apparently there are a bunch of people that do it, but most of the time they don't get anything of much value.
What a find! I remember listening to a program a couple years ago that talked about the people who make a hobby out of buying off the stuff from abandoned storage units. Apparently there are a bunch of people that do it, but most of the time they don't get anything of much value.
Shows like storage wars are completely fake/staged. I have bought over 200 units and have never found a piece of history, rare antique, etc.
That's not to say I havn't made some money and bought some great stuff but its tends to be your average household stuff, at the most maybe some gold or silver which is great but I'm not finding John Wilkes Booth origional wanted posteres or anything crazy like that.
Also your completely right, mmost of it is your average household stuff. You can make some great money but you gotta spend weekends at flea markets, have garage sales, etc. Its not quite as easy as hey I found a vase lets take it to my expert and he offers me 10k for it.
What I find so incredible is that someone would pay $1,000,000 for a comic book.
I wonder the same but there are many people out there who have money to throw away.
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