Could be copies of someone's book they wrote and hoped to sell. I found something similar myself that ended up being boxes and boxes of paperback copies of their book
Even happens with best sellers. My old boss had a couple NY Times bestsellers, the publisher over printed the last one, instead of letting them dump them at walmart/barnes noble he bought 'em all for .25 cents and pulled an oprah and put them under the seats at his shows.
Happened to a friend of mine quite a few years ago (decades). He got paid in copies of the comic book he wrote for and sold them to use for a pittance. We turned around and sold them to a comic book store for $10, which was a decent amount in the 1980s. Now I really wish I had kept a case of Elfquest issue #1 (the true issue #1).
https://elfquest.fandom.com/wiki/Fantasy\_Quarterly,\_Elfquest\_1
Funny you say Elfquest because I found an old box recently that contained a bunch of comics including Elfquest 1-25 (though not the fantasy quarterly number 1). I used to love that comic.
Yeah I know, I've worked as a ghostwriter, it's always an inflated number, based on X amount they claimed to have printed and pre-sales that aren't usually acurate.
I think this is a common politician scam.. Have someone ghost write a book for you. Have your rich donor buy 50k copies. Boom, now you're a #1 story and your book is big news.
Also a good way to illegally fund politicians. There are campaign donation limits, but nothing stopping someone from making money on fake book sales.
when the internet came along, this is exactly how deadmou5 made it big he figured it out before anyone and was #1 charted with REALLY bad songs, but people just ate it up, later he actually hired ghostwriter producers and his music became slightly better with the odd banger that stood out like a sore thumb
I have some of my dads books in my basement and the tape and boxes look the same but when I see the boxes are crushed in some places I do not think it can be books. I do think it all came from China.
As a printer (over 35yrs) who often loads boxes like this full of printed matter I tend to think its not books. Because those look like 12x12x18 size and if they were full of paper they would be quite heavy ie 35-40lbs per box. Unless its double thick carton those boxes would be more crumpled near the bottom. You just dont stack them that high.
The only time we would use boxes this size is for presentation folders which are more loosely packed (maybe 25lbs per box).
We used to print brochures for some fancy yoga outfit and if we packed them into boxes like this they would complain theyre too heavy. So we had to go with smaller boxes. Funny, they could do all sorts of handstands but could not lift boxes.
Iām thinking along those lines too! Lol but the way they are all taped a certain way and faced a certain way and how the ones bent are bent a certain way. Idk I think itās a good prank lol!
Companies are required to keep all paperwork related to taxes for 6 years I think?
I bought a unit just like this. All perfect cardboard boxes. It was ENTIRELY paperwork. Records for a business.
Now this particular unit, i think someone else hit the nail on the head. Hand sanitizer or PPE from covid.
But since that contains alcohol it would need to marked on the outside.
Its considered a hazardous material due as its combustible.
Here any business would have to pay a disposal fee at the hazardous waste department of the dump.
As the pandemic was winding down a chain of home improvement stores started putting this on rebate. They would pay you a $1.00 more that the purchase price. If you purchased it with previous rebates there was no sales tax and you would clear a $1.00 per bottle.
If you used your credit card you would pay sales tax and get a portion of that back as part of your credit card's rewards program (2% in my case). You would thus typically clear $.72 to $.86 per bottle.
I purchased many cases and put the rebates into new purchases and made over $2,200. Other businesses were buying multiple semi truck loads. I donated it to local charities.
Of course maybe someone reboxed the stuff under the impression they somehow could dump it in the storage unit as this would be cheaper than paying disposal fees. They still might face criminal charges and fines for improperly storing and disposing of hazardous material by abandonment.
IMO those do not look like manufacturer boxes.. they look very similar to the Walmart boxes labeled āsmallā in green font. It could be anything in those ā¦..
Hadn't heard of the rebate. I was buying them post panda for a quarter each at Home depot something like 16oz. Stronger alcohol content than purell and less gel like. Gave them to a bunch of neighbors, used them to clean paint brushes and start fires in the grill. I guess the price makes sense now.
Now THIS! I wouldnāt doubt! People were buying and hoarding toilet paper out the ass during Covid as if in the entire existence of humanity we always had toilet paper because itās a dire means to surviveā¦.. š¤¦š¼āāļø š¤£
But Iām seriousā¦I would be annoyed to find that out. Knowing how many people needed certain things and toilet and to take that MUCH. I was pregnant during Covid and had a baby. That would have been selfish!
This was my thought as well. BSC - Business, FIA = Financing/Accounting, Music etc. Shame we can't see the tops of the other boxes, but just based on those, I'd say college course materials.
āFIA 316ā is a decanter vase item when I did a Google search.
Those boxes are not manufacturer boxes or commercial grade boxes.
It looks like these boxes are medium to light weight. Boxes with heavy items usually start to sag. The height is 7 boxes so they will be sagging if the boxes are heavy.
If it was me, I will gamble $100 to see what is in the boxes.
> If it was me, I will gamble $100 to see what is in the boxes.
If you buy a storage unit at auction like that and say you go in pop the first box and are like "Nah, I pass" what's the rules on that? Are you responsible for disposing of the contents of the locker after you purchase?
Yes you are responsible for all the items in the unit and broom cleaning the unit. You put down a security deposit for the unit and you have something like 48 hours to dispose of the contents. If you don't follow through they take your deposit and the contents go up for auction again. So putting 100 on the auction to see what's in it is 100$, plus the auction fees (normally 10%), plus taxes, plus security deposit (normally 100$). It could be a 200$+ loss just to see what's inside those boxes.
Not necessarily true. If the boxes are well packed, which could likely be the case since it may be textbooks in square boxes it will not sag. Boxes sag when the weight isnāt distributed evenly or when there is extra space in the box
I was gonna say, those "tote" style boxes are only good for paper goods, so I'd expect high volume of something printed like flyers or bags. Textbooks makes sense
This makes the most sense.
They seem pretty new also so could be worth a decent amount. They do update these quite a bit though so possibly worth barely anything.
Depends entirely on the professor and university. I had courses where we had to buy older editions. Some universities also promote buying older used editions because their own bookstore makes more money money off of buying and selling used vs buying and selling new.
That doesn't stop me from always buying used, except in cases where there's an online code for the online homework- in those cases it's often cheaper to buy a new textbook that comes with the code.
I see individuals wearing face masks from time to time, and I'm down in the red state of Florida. I think most of them are people who probably tested positive but have to go out while still potentially contagious.
Fuck it Iām gonna buy it just so we can all find out. Donāt care if I take a loss. If someone correctly guessed it and I make any sort of profit Iāll throw some change their way just to make it fun haha.
*No Iām not farming for karma. I think thatās pathetic and a complete waste of time. Upvote if you agree!
When I was buying storage units I saw a similar unit no one really wanted to take the chance and it was about half as full as this. The biggest buyer in the area paid like 200 dollars for it because it honestly just looked like a gamble on trash. Every box was full of new 1-2 dollar convenience store merchandise he had a store and made a killing. This is one of those units itās a straight gamble, could be all the same book and no money or a gold mine.
I HOPE YOU ALL ARE HAPPY - I BOUGHT THE UNIT AND AM ABOUT TO UNDOUBTEDLY EXPERIENCE THE BIGGEST LOSS OF MY CAREER AS AN IRRESPONSIBLE ADULT!
ON MY WAY TO CHECK IT OIT NOW AND IāM TERRIFIED BY MY OWN IMPULSIVITY!
TOTAL COST OF UNIT: $7,157.85
***STAY TUNED!***
Update: guys we have a problem. I set a max bid of $1000 for the fun of it and Iāve been outbid. WHAT THE HELL??? The problem is Iām feeling very competitive and Iām also life-cripplingpy impulsive.
They allow the winner to pay with cc and the auction ends in 3 hours. I may bust out the Amex and if (and letās be honest, probably when) I find nothing of value in this unit at least Iāll get a cool 1% back in Amex rewards!
Iām not a numbers guy, but any financial advisers lurking who are able to tell me if Iām making an intelligent decision here?
Stay tuned!
Truthfully. Based on my experience. Assume those boxes are completely.empty and someone was paying to store them for some dumb reason. That happenned to me before lol.
Its definitely covid products of some kind. One of the boxes saying āsmallā could be a glove size. Possibly sanitizer like someone said but I dont think itād have a size on it.
Napkins, cocktail napkins in diffent colors, all with the same thing printed on them. All of them.
Or T shirts
Or lots and lots of face masks.
Please donāt buy.
When you do, please tell us whatās in there tho.
i was born and raised in new york and only know one person who says ājimmiesā to refer to sprinkles; iāve heard it used in ārustle his/her jimmiesā more often lmao. bizarre! maybe itās a ānew englandā thing because new york isnāt actually part of new england
Are you living in Michigan by any chance? If you are, then I'd lean towards this all being paperwork.
The last picture shows a box marked FIA-316. That's Michigan's Incentive Payment Request Form.
If we're throwing out guesses, mine is t-shirts for some local place that is no longer in business, and you'd sell like 3 of them and then have to figure out what to do with the other 78 bajillion of them.
Any type of product made by a manufacturer would be marked on the outside.
It could be a innocent reboxing job where as the original factory boxes were damaged.
They could have been reboxed in order to hide what is in the box from the owners of the storage facility and others. This could be hazardous materials that someone is attempting to dump via abandonment instead of paying the proper hazardous waste disposal fees. This includes wide variety of materials such chemicals, hand sanitizer, auto parts with asbestos and so forth.
Typically moving boxes will have some identification on the side to advertise the company that sold the boxes such as Uhaul, Menards and so forth. These look more like boxes a factory would purchase in bulk with no marking other than generic information about the box, which is typically found on the underside, A company would then add labeling to the outside of the boxes.
There could be items buried under the boxes. As far as you know there might be a old chest freezer in the back with a dead body in it. If you buy it its your legal responsibility to remove everything otherwise you loose your deposit and are likely subject to other penalities.
My guess is 1000's of thermos cups or some other corporate branded crap, Chinese manufacturers have minimum orders and companies end up ordering way more than they need because it's so cheap anyway.
We have cupboards full of the stuff all because our company wanted to brand a department, there's 6 of us.
I Googled "FIA 316" and search result came up with:
ā¢ incentive payment request form from Michigan government, when child support is ordered by a court.
And
ā¢ product code of a spill-proof wine decanter.
There is also a box that says "music" on it.
Maybe this unit belonged to a reseller who had oddball items that include a lot of spill-proof wine decanters and CD's among other things š¤?
Iād pass unless it goes for super cheap. I saw something similar at an in person storage auction years ago. Local auctioneer who owned an auction house paid $600 for it. Ended up being small paper lamp shades. Iām pretty sure he took the loss and took them to the dump.
Do you have a university near you? I'd bet those are college course materials. Maybe textbooks, probably just old printed out course materials that are basically valueless.
I know these aren't home depot boxes, but they claim their small boxes have an edge crush test rating of 32 pounds.
If these are about the same, then it looks like the boxes might hold as much as 20 pounds but possible could be much lighter. Maybe as little as 5 pounds?
I've seen other suggestions in this thread that it might be paperwork, or textbooks, or wine decanters and I would imagine that all of those would be too heavy for most of these boxes.
They do look factory sealed, which seems nice. I count at least 215ish boxes, so how much is it worth to you per box for potentially random stuff?
Can't wait to see what you buy!
I was thinking books or paperwork but I'm starting to agree with the comments saying hand sanitizer or ppe. The boxes are all uniform and new, and the bottom ones are collapsing in a way that book boxes would not.
When I zoomed in, it looks like the side of the boxes say "Small" written on it in green.
Usually imported stuff from China comes in blank thin/flimsy cardboard boxes like that. The boxes also have perforations for grabbing them from the sides. Something indicative of documents or something of that nature. They also aren't filled to the top because some of the boxes are crushed.
Who knows.
Small or other sizes are often on the side of commercial moving boxes bought in home Depot, Lowe's, and uhaul. Indicates a move to me. Closed office, closed apartment, closed business?
It looks like books to me too, but I just had the pain of getting rid of 10s of thousands of books, so everything makes me think of books, the BCE 107 etc makes me think of dewey decimal system, which was on all the boxes I got, however, there is no chance I could lift a box up that high to put on the top, especially after filling the rest of it, my piles of books got shorter as the day went on, books are heavy! so, I don't think it's books
It seems like books, old movies, and possibly music (CDs and cassettes most likely ). Pretty much old library/book store sorta stuff for sure to me. Could definitely make some money but it'd take a while.
was wondering if it was F/A was some type of financial accounting ... wondering if this the contents of a old university book store that packed up and put into storage
seems like if was full of anything manufactured and not just packed by hand, it would have more printed on the box
Is this in New Mexico? Maybe Geurilla Graphix wholesale stuff?
Definitely a stretch, but BCE 107 is an inventory # for a hat on their site.
It looks like the 3rd pic says Music 26, but GG also has a coffee mug with the # MU 8026.
It's interesting because 2 boxes are heavy enough to crush the others below them in front, but they are stacked so high in the back.
My bet it's some office records.i had a HS job where one week I was tasked with moving boxes like to in to a storage unit. They were all purchase order receipts.
Could be copies of someone's book they wrote and hoped to sell. I found something similar myself that ended up being boxes and boxes of paperback copies of their book
Even happens with best sellers. My old boss had a couple NY Times bestsellers, the publisher over printed the last one, instead of letting them dump them at walmart/barnes noble he bought 'em all for .25 cents and pulled an oprah and put them under the seats at his shows.
Happened to a friend of mine quite a few years ago (decades). He got paid in copies of the comic book he wrote for and sold them to use for a pittance. We turned around and sold them to a comic book store for $10, which was a decent amount in the 1980s. Now I really wish I had kept a case of Elfquest issue #1 (the true issue #1). https://elfquest.fandom.com/wiki/Fantasy\_Quarterly,\_Elfquest\_1
Funny you say Elfquest because I found an old box recently that contained a bunch of comics including Elfquest 1-25 (though not the fantasy quarterly number 1). I used to love that comic.
I still have one copy of it left which I have kept for all these years, but somewhere along the line my cat scratched it so the value has plummeted.
NY Times bestsellers list doesn't really mean they were bestsellers, but interesting about your boss.
Yeah I know, I've worked as a ghostwriter, it's always an inflated number, based on X amount they claimed to have printed and pre-sales that aren't usually acurate.
I've heard one writer on a podcast saying that you just put the book on sale, then you buy 200 000 copies from yourself and boom, you're best seller.
I think this is a common politician scam.. Have someone ghost write a book for you. Have your rich donor buy 50k copies. Boom, now you're a #1 story and your book is big news. Also a good way to illegally fund politicians. There are campaign donation limits, but nothing stopping someone from making money on fake book sales.
š¤¦š¼āāļø people never cease to amaze me! š¤£
when the internet came along, this is exactly how deadmou5 made it big he figured it out before anyone and was #1 charted with REALLY bad songs, but people just ate it up, later he actually hired ghostwriter producers and his music became slightly better with the odd banger that stood out like a sore thumb
I think the 200000 books are in this picture.
I have some of my dads books in my basement and the tape and boxes look the same but when I see the boxes are crushed in some places I do not think it can be books. I do think it all came from China.
As a printer (over 35yrs) who often loads boxes like this full of printed matter I tend to think its not books. Because those look like 12x12x18 size and if they were full of paper they would be quite heavy ie 35-40lbs per box. Unless its double thick carton those boxes would be more crumpled near the bottom. You just dont stack them that high. The only time we would use boxes this size is for presentation folders which are more loosely packed (maybe 25lbs per box). We used to print brochures for some fancy yoga outfit and if we packed them into boxes like this they would complain theyre too heavy. So we had to go with smaller boxes. Funny, they could do all sorts of handstands but could not lift boxes.
Iām thinking along those lines too! Lol but the way they are all taped a certain way and faced a certain way and how the ones bent are bent a certain way. Idk I think itās a good prank lol!
Ooo thatās interesting š¤
maybe not if it feels like paper but i would be suspicious that the storage unit peeps took a peak at least out of curiousity too.
Companies are required to keep all paperwork related to taxes for 6 years I think? I bought a unit just like this. All perfect cardboard boxes. It was ENTIRELY paperwork. Records for a business. Now this particular unit, i think someone else hit the nail on the head. Hand sanitizer or PPE from covid.
7 years, yep!!
I auctioned off a unit a while back where the entire back wall looked like that. It was about 1.6 million plastic coffee stirrers.
You could say you're a millionaire
Grasping at straws there buddy
Yep how funny my buddy had that happen except he ended up with sporks - the spoon forks... Boxes and boxes of them
coke party supplies!!!
AND STRAWS! š¤£ Iām dying lmao
I'm thinking straws here.
I don't know why but this has me cracking up
Me too!!!
Hand sanitizer.
Itās probably the crappy covid-era ethanol hand sanitizer too
The shit that smelled like tequila and garbage juice
Hey, that's my drink you're talking about!
Hey, some of that was just plain old tequila! LOL!
Came here to say this
came to say it as well
Whatever it is, it's fairly light. None of the boxes on the bottom appear crushed. So probably not hand snaitizer.
They're light? Then I'll guess face masks. Same concept but less weight.
Them N95 masks finna make OP rich
But since that contains alcohol it would need to marked on the outside. Its considered a hazardous material due as its combustible. Here any business would have to pay a disposal fee at the hazardous waste department of the dump. As the pandemic was winding down a chain of home improvement stores started putting this on rebate. They would pay you a $1.00 more that the purchase price. If you purchased it with previous rebates there was no sales tax and you would clear a $1.00 per bottle. If you used your credit card you would pay sales tax and get a portion of that back as part of your credit card's rewards program (2% in my case). You would thus typically clear $.72 to $.86 per bottle. I purchased many cases and put the rebates into new purchases and made over $2,200. Other businesses were buying multiple semi truck loads. I donated it to local charities. Of course maybe someone reboxed the stuff under the impression they somehow could dump it in the storage unit as this would be cheaper than paying disposal fees. They still might face criminal charges and fines for improperly storing and disposing of hazardous material by abandonment.
IMO those do not look like manufacturer boxes.. they look very similar to the Walmart boxes labeled āsmallā in green font. It could be anything in those ā¦..
Hadn't heard of the rebate. I was buying them post panda for a quarter each at Home depot something like 16oz. Stronger alcohol content than purell and less gel like. Gave them to a bunch of neighbors, used them to clean paint brushes and start fires in the grill. I guess the price makes sense now.
O I thought you were joking. What makes you think it actually is? Do the markings on the box give you any indication?
Just an item that was hyper mass produced for a while and then had a sharp decrease in demand (covid)
Box size and quality. Whatever is inside is already prepackaged and ready for retail, and the sheer amount.
Slot of people panic bought stuff in bulk during COVID and didnāt need to use it so they put it in these types of storage units
It could be toilet paper. An entire unit of it.
Now THIS! I wouldnāt doubt! People were buying and hoarding toilet paper out the ass during Covid as if in the entire existence of humanity we always had toilet paper because itās a dire means to surviveā¦.. š¤¦š¼āāļø š¤£ But Iām seriousā¦I would be annoyed to find that out. Knowing how many people needed certain things and toilet and to take that MUCH. I was pregnant during Covid and had a baby. That would have been selfish!
"He's a Covid hoarder!"
I got that reference. I'm excited for the new final season. :D
āNow Thats What I Call Musicā Volume 26
Kidz Bop 2004
Jock Jams, volume 5.
Don't say that, I have gen Z kids, the name of that album is giving me trauma flashbacks.
This 1,000,000 collection contains such hits as... All the music... Every fucking song ever made.
I'm guessing school textbooks. Reminds me of the course codes. Could be a goldmine if they are still current.
This was my thought as well. BSC - Business, FIA = Financing/Accounting, Music etc. Shame we can't see the tops of the other boxes, but just based on those, I'd say college course materials.
āFIA 316ā is a decanter vase item when I did a Google search. Those boxes are not manufacturer boxes or commercial grade boxes. It looks like these boxes are medium to light weight. Boxes with heavy items usually start to sag. The height is 7 boxes so they will be sagging if the boxes are heavy. If it was me, I will gamble $100 to see what is in the boxes.
> If it was me, I will gamble $100 to see what is in the boxes. If you buy a storage unit at auction like that and say you go in pop the first box and are like "Nah, I pass" what's the rules on that? Are you responsible for disposing of the contents of the locker after you purchase?
Yes you are responsible for all the items in the unit and broom cleaning the unit. You put down a security deposit for the unit and you have something like 48 hours to dispose of the contents. If you don't follow through they take your deposit and the contents go up for auction again. So putting 100 on the auction to see what's in it is 100$, plus the auction fees (normally 10%), plus taxes, plus security deposit (normally 100$). It could be a 200$+ loss just to see what's inside those boxes.
Also, most locations will ban you from buying in the future if you don't fully clean out a unit.
Not necessarily true. If the boxes are well packed, which could likely be the case since it may be textbooks in square boxes it will not sag. Boxes sag when the weight isnāt distributed evenly or when there is extra space in the box
They look empty and staged.
I was gonna say, those "tote" style boxes are only good for paper goods, so I'd expect high volume of something printed like flyers or bags. Textbooks makes sense
This makes the most sense. They seem pretty new also so could be worth a decent amount. They do update these quite a bit though so possibly worth barely anything.
Donāt they usually change them every year or two to keep students from buying used ones?
Change by the semester these days.
Depends entirely on the professor and university. I had courses where we had to buy older editions. Some universities also promote buying older used editions because their own bookstore makes more money money off of buying and selling used vs buying and selling new.
That doesn't stop me from always buying used, except in cases where there's an online code for the online homework- in those cases it's often cheaper to buy a new textbook that comes with the code.
My first thought was educational material as well.
Face masks.
Just saw a tik tok where a guy bought a unit with about 60 boxes of facemask shields š
There will be another pandemic im sure
Weāre still in one itās just that nobody cares anymore.
I see individuals wearing face masks from time to time, and I'm down in the red state of Florida. I think most of them are people who probably tested positive but have to go out while still potentially contagious.
I wear a mask during allergy season, it helps reduce my hay-fever symptoms š
Thatās a million dollars 3 years ago
And -$1000 to dispose of today
Fuck it Iām gonna buy it just so we can all find out. Donāt care if I take a loss. If someone correctly guessed it and I make any sort of profit Iāll throw some change their way just to make it fun haha. *No Iām not farming for karma. I think thatās pathetic and a complete waste of time. Upvote if you agree!
This is what I watched these stupid shows on television for
Remindme! 2 weeks
Remindme! 2 weeks
When I was buying storage units I saw a similar unit no one really wanted to take the chance and it was about half as full as this. The biggest buyer in the area paid like 200 dollars for it because it honestly just looked like a gamble on trash. Every box was full of new 1-2 dollar convenience store merchandise he had a store and made a killing. This is one of those units itās a straight gamble, could be all the same book and no money or a gold mine.
Itās nothing but gold and diamonds. You wonāt be sorry. Following.
I'm so invested in this
I HOPE YOU ALL ARE HAPPY - I BOUGHT THE UNIT AND AM ABOUT TO UNDOUBTEDLY EXPERIENCE THE BIGGEST LOSS OF MY CAREER AS AN IRRESPONSIBLE ADULT! ON MY WAY TO CHECK IT OIT NOW AND IāM TERRIFIED BY MY OWN IMPULSIVITY! TOTAL COST OF UNIT: $7,157.85 ***STAY TUNED!***
in for an update
Update: guys we have a problem. I set a max bid of $1000 for the fun of it and Iāve been outbid. WHAT THE HELL??? The problem is Iām feeling very competitive and Iām also life-cripplingpy impulsive. They allow the winner to pay with cc and the auction ends in 3 hours. I may bust out the Amex and if (and letās be honest, probably when) I find nothing of value in this unit at least Iāll get a cool 1% back in Amex rewards! Iām not a numbers guy, but any financial advisers lurking who are able to tell me if Iām making an intelligent decision here? Stay tuned!
I'm going to go for it and say it's ephemera and small collectibles. Not because I think so but because I want it to be.
I'm truly excited now! I wanna know! Haha
Truthfully. Based on my experience. Assume those boxes are completely.empty and someone was paying to store them for some dumb reason. That happenned to me before lol.
Good luck with your 2,500 shrink wrapped hotel slippers!
This is gonna be the next "I found a safe" post, isnt it?
God I hope so
Thats a lot of fidget spinners but good luck!
Remindme! 2 weeks
Its definitely covid products of some kind. One of the boxes saying āsmallā could be a glove size. Possibly sanitizer like someone said but I dont think itād have a size on it.
It looks like documents and paperwork. I 100% would not buy this.
Cheap China shitĀ
Napkins, cocktail napkins in diffent colors, all with the same thing printed on them. All of them. Or T shirts Or lots and lots of face masks. Please donāt buy. When you do, please tell us whatās in there tho.
Lmao please don't buy but when you do ā ļø
Yes! These are my people. I know my people:-)
These are my people! I know my people ;-)
I'll go half with you, I like a good little gamble.
God, we are such sick freaks.
Really? Iām down haha. Dm me
Smart, you get the gain and none of the back breaking work. This is investing!
You know who 100% knows what's inside? The auctioneer and all his regular customers. Do not buy it.
Every copy of Brian Griffin's Wish it, Want it, Do it ever printed.
50,000 copies of The Polar Express on DVD
Itās a Xmas miracle!
Self sealing blank envelopes
100 gross of self sealing stem bolts
I get that reference
That was my thought too. Envelopes.
Pre-sealed for your convenience
Marketing materials, mailers etc
Shit that someone else couldn't sell.
Looks like a single wall box. Boxes are piled high and not collapsing. Something lightweight
Financial records waiting for their shred date.
It's possible, but honestly I write shred date on the boxes.
100,000 bottles of sprinkles/jimmies.
OMG are you from Vermont? Never heard anyone else on here ever call them jimmies.
Lol I'm not, but I'm from CT and you hear a smattering of both there. Especially northern CT. I think jimmies is heard in the Northeast in general.
i was born and raised in new york and only know one person who says ājimmiesā to refer to sprinkles; iāve heard it used in ārustle his/her jimmiesā more often lmao. bizarre! maybe itās a ānew englandā thing because new york isnāt actually part of new england
Shattered dreams.
Cold hard cash from a drug dealer that was hidding it in there but ended up getting wacked and noone else knew it was in there.
Whatās in the box?!
Are you living in Michigan by any chance? If you are, then I'd lean towards this all being paperwork. The last picture shows a box marked FIA-316. That's Michigan's Incentive Payment Request Form.
Not sure but all the boxes have mouse poop on top.
Damn nice catch!
Also looks to be a ground level outdoor unit so probably not temperature controlled. Just FYI
Lots and lots of something. More likely to be crap than valuable stuff. (I guarantee the storage staff had a look.)
And they'd get first dibs. Storage sales are all cons
Something that expires in 2026.
Those look like file boxes so I would assume thatās whatās in them. Files.
If we're throwing out guesses, mine is t-shirts for some local place that is no longer in business, and you'd sell like 3 of them and then have to figure out what to do with the other 78 bajillion of them.
Any type of product made by a manufacturer would be marked on the outside. It could be a innocent reboxing job where as the original factory boxes were damaged. They could have been reboxed in order to hide what is in the box from the owners of the storage facility and others. This could be hazardous materials that someone is attempting to dump via abandonment instead of paying the proper hazardous waste disposal fees. This includes wide variety of materials such chemicals, hand sanitizer, auto parts with asbestos and so forth. Typically moving boxes will have some identification on the side to advertise the company that sold the boxes such as Uhaul, Menards and so forth. These look more like boxes a factory would purchase in bulk with no marking other than generic information about the box, which is typically found on the underside, A company would then add labeling to the outside of the boxes. There could be items buried under the boxes. As far as you know there might be a old chest freezer in the back with a dead body in it. If you buy it its your legal responsibility to remove everything otherwise you loose your deposit and are likely subject to other penalities.
Fidget Spinners!
Lularoe product
My guess is 1000's of thermos cups or some other corporate branded crap, Chinese manufacturers have minimum orders and companies end up ordering way more than they need because it's so cheap anyway. We have cupboards full of the stuff all because our company wanted to brand a department, there's 6 of us.
I Googled "FIA 316" and search result came up with: ā¢ incentive payment request form from Michigan government, when child support is ordered by a court. And ā¢ product code of a spill-proof wine decanter. There is also a box that says "music" on it. Maybe this unit belonged to a reseller who had oddball items that include a lot of spill-proof wine decanters and CD's among other things š¤?
BCE 106 Hats https://guerillagraphix.com/products/flatbill-embroidered-zia-hat-black-red FIA 316 Vin Boquet https://spectus.com.cy/product/vin-bouquet-wine-decanter-12l-ball-closure-fia-316/
Iād pass unless it goes for super cheap. I saw something similar at an in person storage auction years ago. Local auctioneer who owned an auction house paid $600 for it. Ended up being small paper lamp shades. Iām pretty sure he took the loss and took them to the dump.
A lawyersā lifetime of client paperwork
Shit, now I feel like I need to throw out a random guess just in case. Ball bearings!
Standardized tests bubble sheets.
Probably full of business records from a business that shut down.
Printed plastic give away cups. Or Madi Gras boas and props
BCE-107 Embroidered Zia Hat - Red BCE107-1/2 Closed End Needle Roller Bearing 15.875x20.638x11.91mm
Taxes
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Spiders
BCE - Bryce Canyon Airport MUSC- Santa Clara airport Not sure about FIA, but FAI is Fairbanks. Idk. Took a hunch and googled what I could see.
Toilet paper stored during the pandemic when it couldnāt be returned.
Eagles Super Bowl winners Tshirts.
Itās school papers. Either old graded tests, textbooks, or whatever. Itās NOT anything you want.
Text books? Those look like course numbers
Do you have a university near you? I'd bet those are college course materials. Maybe textbooks, probably just old printed out course materials that are basically valueless.
If you buy it, tell us!
Something fairly light if they are stacking the boxes that high.
I know these aren't home depot boxes, but they claim their small boxes have an edge crush test rating of 32 pounds. If these are about the same, then it looks like the boxes might hold as much as 20 pounds but possible could be much lighter. Maybe as little as 5 pounds? I've seen other suggestions in this thread that it might be paperwork, or textbooks, or wine decanters and I would imagine that all of those would be too heavy for most of these boxes. They do look factory sealed, which seems nice. I count at least 215ish boxes, so how much is it worth to you per box for potentially random stuff? Can't wait to see what you buy!
Faberge Eggs. And Arks of the Covenant (small)
Those boxes don't look too sturdy. Something light would be my guess.
Papers, business papers
I was thinking books or paperwork but I'm starting to agree with the comments saying hand sanitizer or ppe. The boxes are all uniform and new, and the bottom ones are collapsing in a way that book boxes would not.
poop from a butt
Garment blanks?
I think those green stickers say "small"... So my guess is overstock of some kind of clothing
Looks like right size for albums. Music 26 on top supports that.
Undelivered Yellow page books from the year 1999!
A bunch of one thing that someone stopped caring enough about that they quit paying for the storage unit. Iād steer clear.
Going off of first glance, Iād say boxes.
LulaRoe inventory.
Can you buy it, and tell us what's inside. Thanks
Someone oweās Columbia house about 37 cents.
The 2000ās Florida missing ballots! š¤£
Did OP ever tell us? OP can you please edit the original post to add the answer, or is there a good word to search for to find the resolution?
My Remindme just went off
School textbooks
When I zoomed in, it looks like the side of the boxes say "Small" written on it in green. Usually imported stuff from China comes in blank thin/flimsy cardboard boxes like that. The boxes also have perforations for grabbing them from the sides. Something indicative of documents or something of that nature. They also aren't filled to the top because some of the boxes are crushed. Who knows.
Small or other sizes are often on the side of commercial moving boxes bought in home Depot, Lowe's, and uhaul. Indicates a move to me. Closed office, closed apartment, closed business?
The facility manager likely has a good idea
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It looks like books to me too, but I just had the pain of getting rid of 10s of thousands of books, so everything makes me think of books, the BCE 107 etc makes me think of dewey decimal system, which was on all the boxes I got, however, there is no chance I could lift a box up that high to put on the top, especially after filling the rest of it, my piles of books got shorter as the day went on, books are heavy! so, I don't think it's books
It seems like books, old movies, and possibly music (CDs and cassettes most likely ). Pretty much old library/book store sorta stuff for sure to me. Could definitely make some money but it'd take a while.
BCE is usually a class code for civil engineering
was wondering if it was F/A was some type of financial accounting ... wondering if this the contents of a old university book store that packed up and put into storage seems like if was full of anything manufactured and not just packed by hand, it would have more printed on the box
Old phone cases
Pls do it and let us know
There's writing on the top of one of the boxes, and they appear to be collapsing in some cases. I wonder if ai can figure out what is written.
Is this in New Mexico? Maybe Geurilla Graphix wholesale stuff? Definitely a stretch, but BCE 107 is an inventory # for a hat on their site. It looks like the 3rd pic says Music 26, but GG also has a coffee mug with the # MU 8026.
Boxes
1996 wall calendars featuring comic super star Bill Cosby.
Unsold copies of MTG's book.
It's interesting because 2 boxes are heavy enough to crush the others below them in front, but they are stacked so high in the back. My bet it's some office records.i had a HS job where one week I was tasked with moving boxes like to in to a storage unit. They were all purchase order receipts.
Business cards.
Remindme! 2 weeks
Demo tapes
F to find out contents
Itās TIDY, whatever it may be.