This was one of the dog days of a long Georgia summer and I was catching hell from the Ma Clampett, every location we hit she bid the shit out of me! I was getting good units, but I was paying through the ass for each unit! it went on like that all freaking day long! I never seen this woman before I started attending the storage auctions but it was clear I was her favorite whipping boy and others were glad I was the one in the cross fire as she left them alone. We arrived at the last location of that day a little after 6, the crowd was significantly smaller and poorer and just maybe I could get a killer unit for cheap.
However the storage auction gods had another plan in store for the kid. Unit after unit was nothing but dusty , stanky disappointment and that was the good stuff. I did not open my mouth to bid on anything as my hopes diminished and the junk scene widen it was nothing but junk from the first unit to the last or so I thought. The very last unit there was this 10 x 30 chock full of Iams dog food.
The guy that lost the storage auction unit was a manufacturers rep, for some reason he let the unit go , I am assuming he must have gotten fired, at that point they do not give a shit! Initially I was not interested and Ma Clampett had put her stamp of disapproval on it ( which is another reason to do your own work!) she announced to the crowd the dog food was expired and promptly slithered away. As I was back in the cut, I noticed everyone lost interest and was leaving. Some little voice inside of my soul whispered “get it” which shocked me.
The manager was getting ready to close the door and go collect the money. Slowly I went up to him and made this offer- “ If you give me 30 days I will clean it out for you and I need time on the other units I bought today….” before I could finish he said “ Give me a dollar to make legal and we have a deal!” with that I was in possession of my first dog food unit. Which I did not come back to inspect of clean out until the 30 days was almost over, procrastination can be a mother! I was poking around the unit, figuring out where I was going to dump this puppy and held high hopes there was something good in the back. The pallets were 3 across and two rows tall, not quite full from the Roota to The Toota but close.
After really checking out the packaging I noticed the dog food was not expired, sometimes the dot matrix printing can be hard to read Ma Clampett read it wrong the dog food was not expired. I wrote down some information and went back home to research it. This stuff was going from $35-65 dollars a bag on ebay! I quickly got my duck in line and set it up on ebay two bags for a $100 with free ship. I was selling two to three 2-bag deals a day for almost 2 months! There were other items in there , bowls, chew toys but the real meat was the dog food. One of my first jackpot units, when it was all over but the counting did $15,000 on a unit I got for free and almost did not get, which made me one lucky son of a gun! Storage auctions are a risky proposition there is no doubt about it, just like you can lose big you can win big. I made more money on that one unit than I did on all of the other units I bought that month combined. If you want to get in the game, buy my book it will save you more money that it will cost you!
