[quote]CLUNK wrote:
Storage units are NOT for rare books, paintings, and works of art. They need to be temp and humidity-controlled. You seem like an intelligent man, so I’m surprised at your choice to store them as such.
You mention you can’t remember everything you had. In that case, it was as if they were already gone.
If it’s a lost cause retrieving your items or receiving justice, I hope you find peace with it, and that you gained some knowledge and strength with which to go forward.
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My mother passed away recently and I inherited a huge amount of her stuff and had no where to store it. I’m looking to buy a property at the moment and I was going to move all my stuff into my new place. Also, these storage units are temperature and humidity controlled to an extent. You can’t set the temp and humidity but they’re both kept low and it’s underground. Besides, I had a few oil paintings and antiques but it’s not like I had a multi-million dollar art collection or anything. A lot of China ware(my grandmother’s and mother’s China), porcelainware, some antiques of my grandfather’s - that sort of stuff.
I’m not sure why people are saying I should be more angry. I am angry! But I’ve got to follow a sensible course of action. Today I checked the terms and conditions and indeed, property can be claimed to cover arrears of more than 40 days under the “Reclaimed Goods Act” which is the relevant act they must adhere to. I’ve had a look at the Reclaimed Goods Act and seized property worth more than $5000 must be listed and a “Disposal of Goods” form filed with a court. My next step is to find out if they followed these procedures according to the law and of course, if/when I went into arrears and what steps were taken to contact me and so on.
One of the reasons I don’t want to immediately shell out on a lawyer is because I can do a lot of the work myself. My brother is a lawyer too - although he does contract/copyright. But I’ve found the relevant acts quite easily and I have some legal research skills and access to university law library and online resources. Later when I’ve done some of the legwork I might hire a Barister who specialises in the area or just a good solicitor who can represent me if I go to court.
You invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the stuff you had stored?
You stored your mothers diamond ring in the unit?
You allegedly owed the storage company a few hundred dollars?
They sold off tens of thousands of dollars worth of your stuff to cover the few hundred dollars you owed?
My first impression is it sounds like your fishing for generous victims to scam as this would be a ridiculously easy case to win.
But if this really is true then I wish you the best.
[quote]B A S T A R D wrote:
Let me get the facts right:
You invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the stuff you had stored?
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It cost me aaa buyer well over a hundred thousand but resale value is not the same thing.
The diamond ring had sentimental value. I had my mother’s jewellery box stored there. The ring was worth maybe $5000 resale. In terms of antiques, an example is a China peacock made in the late 19th century with incandescent lights in the tail behind coloured glass. It would sell at auction for maybe $15,000. My great grandfather’s cavalry sabre, war medals etc. Grandmother’s and mother’s China. My parents’ library and most of my own. Yes, that’s the sort of stuff I had stored there. I wouldn’t have thought that’s unusual. It’s regular household stuff.
That’s what they say.
Yes.
Huh? It’s “you’re”. I’m looking to scam victims?
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as this would be a ridiculously easy case to win.
But if this really is true then I wish you the best.[/quote]
My first impression is it sounds like your fishing for generous victims to scam as this would be a ridiculously easy case to win.
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Lol. This guy has invested 3 years and 7k+ posts to come on here with a sad story to scan a few people out of some money. THIS site, in which addresses are not available, PMs are disabled, and few (if any) have the sympathy necessary to just freely offer money to a guy on the internet.
There are some charitable people on this site, I’m sure, but I don’t see many people exchanging bank account info.
My first impression is it sounds like your fishing for generous victims to scam as this would be a ridiculously easy case to win.
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Lol. This guy has invested 3 years and 7k+ posts to come on here with a sad story to scan a few people out of some money. THIS site, in which addresses are not available, PMs are disabled, and few (if any) have the sympathy necessary to just freely offer money to a guy on the internet.
There are some charitable people on this site, I’m sure, but I don’t see many people exchanging bank account info. [/quote]
I would like to send you some cash money because I know you are disabled by your lankiness. You haven’t asked me for money but I would like to outpour my sympathy. I hope with enough charity you can someday bulk.
“For less than the price of a Venti Soy Hazelnut Vanilla Cinnamon White Mocha with Extra White Mocha and Caramel per day, we can provide LankyMoFo with a whey protein shake…”
My first impression is it sounds like your fishing for generous victims to scam as this would be a ridiculously easy case to win.
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Lol. This guy has invested 3 years and 7k+ posts to come on here with a sad story to scan a few people out of some money. THIS site, in which addresses are not available, PMs are disabled, and few (if any) have the sympathy necessary to just freely offer money to a guy on the internet.
There are some charitable people on this site, I’m sure, but I don’t see many people exchanging bank account info. [/quote]
So he meant scam people on T-Nation? Lol! I don’t need any money. I’m about to buy a house. I’m pissed about the irreplaceable stuff that had sentimental value and my library.
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
Maybe we should pitch in to buy him a boat. THEN he’ll need money![/quote]
Actually I’ve always wanted a yacht like Errol Flynn’s. Then I could sail the seven seas and play calypso music and hang around Italy and the South of France. Donations welcome.
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
Maybe we should pitch in to buy him a boat. THEN he’ll need money![/quote]
Actually I’ve always wanted a yacht like Errol Flynn’s. Then I could sail the seven seas and play calypso music and hang around Italy and the South of France. Donations welcome.[/quote]
You’d probably just stuff it in a storage locker somewhere and forget to pay the bill.
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
Maybe we should pitch in to buy him a boat. THEN he’ll need money![/quote]
Actually I’ve always wanted a yacht like Errol Flynn’s. Then I could sail the seven seas and play calypso music and hang around Italy and the South of France. Donations welcome.[/quote]
You’d probably just stuff it in a storage locker somewhere and forget to pay the bill.
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Yeah, but I didn’t forget to pay the bill. The monthly storage rent was being paid in each month but they’re saying my account got in arrears at some stage. I’m not just taking their word for that either. I’m going to check my bank statements.
[quote]CLUNK wrote:
Storage units are NOT for rare books, paintings, and works of art. They need to be temp and humidity-controlled. You seem like an intelligent man, so I’m surprised at your choice to store them as such.
You mention you can’t remember everything you had. In that case, it was as if they were already gone.
If it’s a lost cause retrieving your items or receiving justice, I hope you find peace with it, and that you gained some knowledge and strength with which to go forward.
Sorry to hear about your loss, some people just deserve to be gut shot.
I had to store a rare motorcycle for some times in a rent a space, tried to get the most professional mob i could get.
Long story short, i had placed a surveillance camera on the motorcycle, it caught the roller door going up and down like a brides nightie, i confronted the manager and they were just maggots, slimey bottom feeder turds.
All the best with your prep work in sorting this situation.
Are you positive that your anarchist alter-ego didn’t intentionally skip a few payments so that you would lose everything, thereby allowing you to get that much closer to “hotting bottom”?
Do you have trouble sleeping?
Any desire to start underground boxing clubs?
Just saying it’s a possibility.
No, in all seriousness, SexMachine, I’m really sorry that this happened to you. If you’re at all like me (and judging from a multitude of your posts, you are), the loss of the antiques and “sentimental value” items don’t hurt a tenth as much as losing the books. Losing a book is to me always like losing a friend. Sure, you can get more, but it’s just not the same. I hope you’re somehow able to recoup your losses.