Did you know that now is the perfect time to get into the storage auction business? The hype is over, and the hobbyists have decided to gracefully bow out. That's why now is the perfect time to buy Mike Milez' new book Storage Auction... more

If you haven’t the foggiest idea how to setup a website, you are not alone. With today’s technologies and website templates, building your very own, branded website, is much simpler than you can imagine. If you read on, I'll tell you... more

In the storage auction business you will come across quite a bit of jewelry and other odd items with hard to read hallmarks. It's a good idea to get yourself a jeweler's loupe so that you can magnify this tiny writing and make sense of... more

When an item sells, and you’re ready to ship, I HIGHLY recommend having a thermal printer, like the Zebra 2844. With a thermal printer, you’ll never have to buy ink! It also prints very fast, and directly onto standard size shipping... more

Did you know that you can get FREE USPS Flat Rate Boxes? Well, you do now! When selling items on eBay from my storage auction hauls, I would often sort items by size so that I could ship them in the small, medium, or large flat rate... more

Save yourself time and money and invest in a postal scale. When putting items up on eBay, I found that it was much more efficient if I packed them first so that I could provide accurate shipping measurements and weight. This allows you... more

Think for a second how you find items of interest on eBay. Do you browse to a category and manually scroll through everything hoping to find the item you are looking for? I didn’t think so. Like most people, you search for the item... more

If you want to have monthly markdowns, there's no better way than to use different colored price stickers for each month of your inventory. Here's a little system that I used, and these are the colored price stickers I used to do... more

The quickest way to price your storage auction inventory is to use this monarch 1136 price gun. It allows you to do 2 lines with 8 characters each. For example, I always put the month and year when I receive the item in the top left... more

If you don't have pop up tent canopy weights then you don't know what you're missing, unless of course it's your pop up tent! How many times have you been at the flea market or swap meet and seen someone's canopy take flight with an... more

Whether your out at the flea market, or you're loading your open utility trailer in the rain, you're going to wish you had a commercial pop up tent. Unlike standard pop up tents, a commercial pop up tent offers a lightweight steel frame,... more

The one thing I hate most about swap meets is being forced to load and unload the trailer constantly. After a few times doing things the hard way, I thought smarter, not harder, and came up with a system that impressed my competition as... more