Whatever it may be, we just can’t get enough of self-storage auctions and neither can Bid13.com Toronto Storage Auction!

The  battle ground for the Toronto Storage warriors is heating up on Bid13.com.

What we love about Bid13 is that they take you inside the storage units before you place your bid. Instead of the usual unclear storage photos we are used to seeing on online auction sites, Bid13 posts a hi-res video of every unit’s potential treasures.

The art collection in Unit 6115 and the mysterious piles of unopened boxes in Unit 2302 are already tingling the warriors’ spidey-senses (hopefully without any actual spiders).  Both units are currently bidding at  over $860 and $510 respectively and with less than a day left for each auction, we can’t wait to see how high the auctioneers will bid. With past auctions selling for as high as $3000, Bid13 has clearly caught the attention of  Toronto’s biggest storage auction hunters.

Get your credit cards and battle gear warriors!

Bid 13 is located at:
3715 Lake Shore Boulevard West
Toronto, M8W1P8
Ontario, Canada
(647) 427-2776

Happy bidding!

Location: Storwell Mississauga Self Storage 2525 Royal Windsor Dr. Mississauga, ON L5J 1K9

This Auction Ends On:08th Aug 2011 14:07

Location: Storwell Self Storage Scarborough 85 Executive Court, Scarborough, Ontario. Canada, M1S 5W9

This Auction Ends On:10th Aug 2011 15:03pm

Location: Storwell Self Storage Scarborough 85 Executive Court, Scarborough, Ontario. Canada, M1S 5W9

With operators battling over every rental dollar, discounting has become a widely used marketing strategy in the self-storage industry. But “one month free” doesn’t have to be your facility’s calling card. Instead, adopting an automatic credit card payment program can reduce collection time, and increase occupancy and profit. Here’s how.

In 1987, my company built its first self-storage facility in the west end of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As we were setting up the banking arrangements, I disagreed with our then bank manager over the legality of automatically charging customer credit cards.

In his opinion, transactions could be invalidated if there wasn’t a separate signature for each monthly charge. In weighing the pros and cons, we ultimately decided the risk of a customer trying to reverse the charges was far outweighed by the savings we’d achieve in collections. In the 23 years since, we’ve only had two such reversals out of the thousands of transactions we process monthly, both of which were resolved at minimal cost.

read more here:

http://www.insideselfstorage.com/articles/2011/03/automatic-billing-trumps-discounting-self-storage-operators-increase-profit-and-limit-delinquency.aspx

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That is really sad what is wrong with people these days?

SIMI VALLEY (KTLA) — A copy of a rare comic book stolen from Nicolas Cage more than a decade ago was discovered in a local storage locker.
The 1938 comic book, “Action Comics #1,” was stolen from Cage’s West Los Angeles home in 2000 and has an estimated value of $1 million.
According to the Ventura County Star, it was found last month when a man found it in a San Fernando Valley storage locker.
The man, who was not identified, bought the storage unit in an auction through Riverside-based American Auctioneers.
The DC comic book marks the print debut of Superman, and is regarded as one of the most important comic books ever published.
In the 1990s, Cage was slated to play Superman in a Tim Burton film, but the production fell through.

New York dealer Stephen Fishler, who sold the copy to Cage, was able to identify it as the original.
It’s not yet clear if the comic will be returned to Cage.

And here’s another with Auctioneer Forrest O’Brien conducting an auction at a Brentwood storage facility in California

It’s interesting to see what a storage auction is really like, very different from what you see in these tv shows! What do you think? are you up to it? Can you even understand half the words these auctioneers are saying? I certainly can’t!

We also found another company that advertises it’s self storage auctions online, their list of storage auctions can be found here.

There is also reinhart auctions which does some self storage auctions and some estate sales. They currently have six self storage auctions listed on their page! We will be adding these auctions to our self storage auction calendar very soon.

Do you know of any other self storage facilities currently doing public auctions in the Toronto area?  Let us know! We would love to hear from you!