kane

Two basic reasons.

1. It is hard work. When you buy the unit you need to load it all up, haul it, unload it and deal with everything. It can be very time consuming and physically demanding.

This might be an average day where I would have two auctions to go to and I end up buying a unit at one of them: Say the auctions are at 10am and noon. I would get up around 8am, eat breakfast while checking ebay and answering any questions bidders may have. Also check email for other Craig's List or other responses. Leave the house at 9am to go to the first auction. After the second auction is over after noon I now have the unit I bought to deal with. I would drive my truck to the auction so I would immediately start my pre-sort and decide at the location what was clearly garbage and what I wanted to take home. It could easily take 3-4 hours to sort, load and transport the good stuff to my house and the junk to the dump. I would come home, do a little more sorting and try to get the obvious stuff I wanted to sell up on ebay that same day. I would also need to box up and get ready to ship anything that sold that day and was paid for. I would also need to research anything that I wasn't sure about to see if it had any real value or not. If I was fast and lucky I would be done by about 6pm. I would then shower, eat dinner and the go to work on my regular job (porn websites) by around 8pm and work until about 3 am then get up and do it again. Not every day was like that, but probably 2-3 per week were. Those days with no auctions had me doing a lot of shipping, researching, sorting and just generally dealing with all the stuff you accumulate.

2. I had to make a choice how I wanted to spend my time. I was trying to do the storage unit thing, run my porn stuff and write a book all at the same time. Eventually, it wasn't working out and I had to decide which one to cut back on. I was determined to finish the book so it had to be one of the others and I knew my income potential in porn was much higher and I didn't have to work nearly as hard for it.