The Secrets Behind Storage Wars

SECRETS BEHIND THE STORACE WARS AGE'S STORAGE WARS THE 2ND SEASON 5.1 MILLION THE MOST IN A&E HISTORY AT LATER PREMIERE SURPASSED BY ATTRACTED VIEWERS THE TIME DUCK DYNASTY BIDS ON UNITS HAVE THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASED - UNITS INCREASE IN AUCTION THAT TYPICALLY ATTENDANCE, WENT FOR $75-$125 REPORTEDLY UP TO ARE NOW BEING QUADRUPLE OR MORE FOR $500 OR MORE OTHER • STORAGE FACILITIES ARE MORE AUCTION-FRIENDLY • STORAGE AUCTIONS HAVE ATTRACTED BUYERS WHO TRY IT OUT FOR THE EXPERIENCE/SPORT RATHER THAN IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE MONEY IMPACTS OF THE SHOW INCLUDE • STORAGE FACILITIES HAVE BEEN APPEALING TO NEW DEMOGRAPHICS AND ALSO ENCOURAGING RENTERS TO STAY CURRENT ON PAYMENT • STORAGE FACILITIES MAY BE RECOUPING COSTS ON THE DEFAULTED UNITS WHEREAS BEFORE IT HAD BEEN IN THEIR INTEREST TO KEEP RENTING THE UNIT IF POSSIBLE * INTRO TO STORAGE AUCTIONS* STORAGE AUCTION LAWS OR OTHER RESTRICTIONS VARY BY LOCATIONS AND STATE SOME STORAGE WHEN OWNERS OF LOCATIONS ALLOW STORAGE UNITS DEFAULT OWNERS TO PAY OFF ON THEIR PAYMENT, THE THEIR PAST DUE STORAGE UNIT – AND ALL PAYMENTS THE DAY OF CONTENTS WITHIN – CAN AUCTION TO PREVENT BE AUCTIONED OFF TO THE THEIR UNIT FROM BEING HIGHEST BIDDER SOLD PICKING GOOD UNITS LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION DO RESEARCH BEFORE ATTENDING THE AUCTION TO EVALUATE THE VALUE OF HOMES IN THE AREA WHERE THE STORAGE AUCTION IS LOCATED STORAGE UNITS LOCATED IN TRENDY, UPSCALE NEIGHBORHOODS WITH YOUNG, WEALTHIER NEIGHBORHOODS THE LOCATION OF THE STORAGE OR NEIGHBORHOODS WITH AN UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE UNIT IS MENTIONED AT THE OLDER POPULATION CAN BE WITH DISPOSABLE INCOME, ESPECIALLY COUPLES, CAN START OF EACH STORAGE WARS MORE LIKELY TO HAVE VALUABLE EPISODE OR COLLECTIBLE ITEMS ALSO LEAD TO GREAT FINDS GOOD CONDITION UNITS THAT ARE NEATLY ORGANIZED, CLEAN, OR APPEAR TO BE IN BETTER CONDITIONS TEND TO BE GOOD UNITS WHEN A UNIT HAS BEEN TAKEN CARE SIMILARLY, STURDY OF, IT IMPLIES THE PREVIOUS OWNER CARED ABOUT THE ITEMS AND CONTAINERS CAN IMPLY BETTER CONTENTS OVER FLIMSY MAY BE VALUABLE OR AT LEAST CARDBOARD BOXES IN DECENT SELLABLE CONDITION OWNER TYPE GUESSING THE TYPE OF OWNER THAT HAD THE UNIT CAN BE HELPFUL BACHELORS ARE GREAT AT HAVING DECENT, VALUABLE ITEMS THAT WILL COMPARED TO A YOUNG FAMILY UNIT SELL BUT ALSO FORGETFUL ENOUGH TO THAT IS JUST A PLACE TO STORE END UP WITH THE STORAGE UNIT BEING EXTRANEOUS JUNK AUCTIONED OFF BEST STORAGE UNIT FINDS ★ NEAR-MINT IST TREASURE ORIGINAL ART A '66 SHELBY EDITION COPY CHEST OF BY FRANK MUSTANG OF ACTION PIRATE BOOTY GUTIEREZ VALUE: COMICS # 1, $200,000 VALUE VALUE: WHICH APPROXIMATELY APPROXIMATELY STORY: $500,000 $300,000 INTRODUCES • THE MUSTANG WAS ONE OF ONLY 1,100 SUPERMAN STORY: STORY: MADE • DARRELL SHEETS OF STORAGE WARS PUR- • NEWBIE STORAGE VALUE: BIDDER BOUGHT 2 $2,161,000 • THE CAR HAD TO BE UNITS OWNED BY THE CHASED THE UNIT FOR $3,600 SOLD AT A SEPARATE SAME PERSON FOR STORY: CAR-SPECIFIC AUCTION $1,700 • THE 1938 COMIC IS • DESPITE SOME OF THE ONE OF TWO • INSIDE A DUSTY BLUE ARTWORK BEING BEST-PRESERVED RUBBERMAID SLIGHTLY DAMAGED, COPIES KNOWN TO CONTAINER THAT THE ART APPRAISER EXPERTS REQUIRED 3 PEOPLE TO SAID THE SHEER CARRY WERE 16 GOLD AMOUNT OF GUTIEREZ' • IT HAD BEEN WORK DISCOVERED WAS DOUBLOONS, SOME PURCHASED BY SILVER SPANISH QUITE VALUABLE NICOLAS CAGE IN 1997 DOLLARS, AND 40 FOR $150,000, WHO SEVERAL GOLD AND SILVER BARS LATER REPORTED IT 50 STOLEN IN 2000 20 • THE COMIC LEGALLY HAD TO BE RETURNED 10 30 TO CAGE WHO IN TURN SOLD IT FOR THE $2.16 MILLION • THE STORY IS GETTING TURNED INTO A MOVIE BY LIONSGATE ANTIQUES WITH GUNS AND CLASSIC 1969 HISTORICAL ANTIQUES CHEVELLE IN SIGNIFICANCE PRISTINE VALUE: VALUE: APPROXIMATELY CONDITION AROUND $100,000 $20,000 VALUE: STORY: • THIS UNIT APPEARED ON SPIKE'S AUCTION STORY: $90,500 • THE TWO HIGH-VALUE STORY UNITS WERE BOUGHT FOR A COMBINED HUNTERS AS PART OF •ANOTHER UNIT $27,000 THE LARGEST STORAGE FEATURED ON AUCTION 10 HUNTERS, IN ADDITION TO VARIOUS VINTAGE AUCTION IN • THE OPENING BID WAS THE COUNTRY WITH $10,000 DUE TO HOW OVER 800 UNITS KNICK-KNACKS, THE LOCKER CONTAINED OBVIOUSLY VALUABLE THE CONTENTS WERE • INSIDE WERE VARIOUS THE CLASSIC CAR ANTIQUES FROM GUNS UNDER A PLASTIC • THE PREVIOUS OWNER TO ANTIQUE SLOT CARS COVER WAS A WWII GENERAL AND THE UNITS 20 INCLUDED SUCH ITEMS AS DOCUMENTS 70 30 FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (INCLUDING ITEMS SIGNED BY FORMER U.S. 40 PRESIDENTS), A CANE 60 50 BELONGING TO HARRY TRUMAN, RARE ARTWORK, AND OTHER ANTIQUES * WINNING BIDDING STRATEGIES* 900 RUNNING UP THE BID BIDDING LATE THIS IS WHEN A BIDDER WHO HAS NO INTEREST IN A UNIT PLACES BIDS WITH THE INTENTION OF INCREASING THE WHEN MULTIPLE BIDDERS ARE FIGHTING FOR A UNIT, A NEW BIDDER CAN MAKE A AMOUNT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY LATE BID AFTER SOME HAVE DROPPED OUT YOU CAN SHOW SOME DOUBT OR APPEAR UNSURE AND THE FEW REMAINING BIDDERS BELIEVE ABOUT CONTINUING TO FORCE THE OTHER PERSON THEY WILL WIN TO BOW OUT BEFORE THEY ACCIDENTALLY THIS CAN SHAKE THE CONFIDENCE OF THE REMAINING BIDDER, ESPECIALLY IF YOU BID WITH WIN THE BID CONFIDENCE AND IF THEY HAD BEEN GROWING SECURE IN THINKING THE UNIT WAS THEIRS $1,000! 400 300 START WITH AN OPENING BID IF YOU ARE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN A UNIT, YOU CAN PLACE THE STARTING RAISING BIG BY LARGE MARGIN BID BEFORE THE AUCTIONEER PLACING A HIGH OPENING BID CAN DETER OTHERS FROM TRYING TO PURSUE THE SAME UNIT INCREASING THE BID BY A LARGE AMOUNT IN A SINGLE BID THIS STRATEGY IS USEFUL WHEN A UNIT IS BIDDING LOWER THAN YOU THINK IT COULD EVENTUALLY GO FOR AND YOU RAISE THE BID TO THE MUCH HIGHER NUMBER THIS EXPRESSES A LOT OF CONFIDENCE AND IMPLIES YOU HAVE A LOT OF MONEY TO SPEND, WHICH CAN DETER OTHER BIDDERS, AS WELL AS LAST MINUTE BID CATCH OTHERS OFF GUARD AND CAUSE UNCERTAINTY LET OTHER BIDDERS FIGHT IT OUT BEFORE JUMPING IN RIGHT BEFORE IT'S SOLD T0 PLACE YOUR BID THIS STRATEGY CATCHES THE BIDDER DIRTY! OFF-GUARD AND IS ESPECIALLY USEFUL WHEN USED RIGHT BEFORE THEIR BID LIMIT (BUT STILL BELOW YOURS) REDUCE THE AUCTIONEER'S BID INCREMENTS TALKING A UNIT DOWN REDUCE THE AUCTIONEER'S BID INCREMENTS-TRY TO REDUCE THE BID INCREMENTS TO A SMALLER AMOUNT, E.G. BEFORE BIDDING BEGINS, SOUND INSTEAD OF INCREASING BIDS BY $100, UNINTERESTED IN PURCHASING IT AND INCREASE THEM BY $50 POINT OUT THE NEGATIVES, SUCH AS THE POOR CONDITION OR LACK OF VALUE OF THIS MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE WITH ALL AUCTIONEERS ITEMS WITHIN OR HOW DIRTY IT IS CONCLUSION ! BE REALISTIC - WITH SOME RESEARCH, WHAT YOU SEE ON TV IS PEOPLE LEARNING WHICH STRATEGIES WORK WITH A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WHO BEST FOR YOU, AND RECOGNIZING A ARE PUTTING IN A LOT OF WORK GOOD UNIT AT THE RIGHT PRICE, YOU TO FIND THE OCCASIONAL BIG CAN ALSO BANK ON WINNING IN WIN THE STORAGE WARS SOURCES SELF STRAGE SSFFINDERS HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=B67NLISUT6K HTTP://AUCTIONSTX.COM/STORAGE-AUCTION-BIDDING-TACTICS/ Fasies' Growing Ser Srye Es'ory un las n'erne HTTP://WWW.PRWEB.COM/RELEASES/2011/12/PRWEB9064066.HTM HTTP://STORAGE-AUCTIONS-GUIDE.COM/STORAGE-AUCTION-BIDDING-TIPS/ HTTP://WWW.THEWRAP.COM/TV/COLUMN-POST/STORAGE-WARS-SEASON-TwO-RATINGS HTTP://WWW.GUARDIAN.CO.UK/FILM/2012/MAR/09/NICHOLAS-CAGE-STOLEN-SUPERMAN-COMIC-FILM HTTP://WWw.SFGATE.COM/BAYAREA/ARTICLE/PIRATE-BOOTY-TURNS-UP- IN-EAST-BAY-STORAGE-UNIT-2289420.PHP HTTP://wWW.HUFFINGTONPOST.COM/2012/12/19/STORAGE-WARS- BIGGEST-PAYOUT-EVER-VIDEO_N_2328407.HTML HTTP://WWw.STORAGEAUCTIONSYSTEM.COM/1/POST/2011/4/STORAGE- AUCTIONS-HOW-TO-FIND-THE-BESTAUCTIONS.HTML HTTP://WWW.STORAGEAUCTIONSKINGS.COM/STORAGEAUCTIONSTIPSANDTRICKS/WHAT-EFFECT-IS-STORA GE-WARS-HAVINGON-LOCAL-AUCTIONS/406 700 %24