I Bought An Abandoned Storage Unit
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- 게시일 2017. 11. 03.
- I saw a lot of people buying and opening ebay mystery boxes for videos and I wanted to join in, so I bought an abandoned storage unit to do my own mystery haul and see what was inside, and how much it was worth! We ended up finding some treasure and a lot of trash, but overall had an ~interesting~ experience.
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HELLO FRIENDS!!! here is an odd adventure that we went on, that i hope you will enjoy.... though we escaped mostly unscathed this time, i'm not sure what mystery hauls the future will bring, hehe. happy saturday!!
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omg storage wars
im crying they returned the library books
ChaosAsItSwirls 😂😭😭
i probably would have done the same lol
Ikr
If everything in that unit is from the 90’s-mid 2000’s then they’ve probably been missing for almost 20 years😂
Right? I would have gone in and returned them just to find out how much they were overdue. lol. Although, I'm imagining the librarian's face when she tries to check it back in. rofl.
Okay, so that guy had:porn, food, drinks, comics and a chair? Sound like he had a secret man-cave in that unit to me.
You mean Kevin Smith?
That's exactly what I thought. Definitely a secret man-cave. Though I'm guessing he had to abandon it when his wife found out he was paying for a storage unit she had no idea about. Though given what I've seen on true crime shows a secret man-cave is probably the least terrifying option.
and a most likely satanic mask. Interesting guy
They were probably a frat boy in the 90's or 200's
Safiya: “this shopping cart is gonna be handy down the road”
Me: imagines safiya being pushed in a shopping cart at her wedding
Alas 😂
Ha ha yeah
Lol 😆😂
Sadly this was not the case 😢
My Channel lol 😂😂
so now....2 years later...you know what you should do? You should go to an auction for abandoned luggage at the airport! I've seen people get legit amazing things like really nice name-brand clothes and shoes and expensive laptops and jewelry. :D
Would looooove to see it! lol
There's a place in Alabama where all the lost and abandoned luggage and other stuff from planes goes and you can buy, like a regular store.
Hannah Eli Edgin Omg. That sounds kinda fun. Safiya has to do that
LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN LIKE ALL THE REPLIES AND COMMENTS
YAS
But... dirty holiday clothes 😅
So there's some dude watching this video going, "Hey... That's *my* stuff!"
Very unlikely, but possible...
Hey, that's my porn!
@Aubrey Bailey Hi
@Aubrey Bailey hello other person scrolling through the yt comments :-)
Hi random person scrolling through the yt comments cool name
Other KRplusrs: *buys mystery boxes*
Safiya: *buys abandoned storage unit*
She’s always on the next level
500th like
Gotta have That one extra friend
Ramya B IKR
so true
Ramya B shits been done before but OK
Storage units: A costumer who vlogs?!
Auction: CANCELLED!!!
Hotel: TriVaGO
Customer*.
Costumer is someone who costumes.
most likely cuz they know the units are just full of trash so they didnt want to get wrecked online 🤔
yep lol
It was really suspicious
Legit my favourite part in this video was when she returned the library books, it made me so happy
Petition to make this a series
Twenty Paphonies *signed*
*signed*
Signed
Signed
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I feel like i can smell this storage unit
I can smell the purple powerade
Oh nevermind guys it’s just me I haven’t showered in like a week cus quarantines getting to me it’s alright it’s just me
I smell the old powerade and dust
Are you sitting on the toilet? Because that would explain it lol
Ahh mothballs
Tyler’s reenactment of bidding was my favorite part of the video. Both of you guys have such a great sense of humor. You must have so much fun together. 💕
It was more likely the shopping cart was "stolen"....not the books lol
Geoffrey O'Brien it’s so much harder to steal a shopping cart than library books what are you on
@@darkangel4994 How is it hard to steal a shopping cart? You just... walk away with it
true
A lot of the shopping carts around where I live have wheel locks with sensors that lock the wheels up once they've left the parking lot.
@@stankapusheaux4810 what kind of fancy places do yall live in 😭 the shopping carts in my area are literally falling apart all over the parking lot
Man i wish this was a series on your channel. I've never seen a youtber be this passionate about storage Wars and auctions as you are! I love it!
She's so passionate about everything! Part of the reason why I just love watching her. She's amazing!
I'd totally love this to come back. It's so strangely fascinating and hilarious.
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I've never seen such a clean garage lmao
Changoodie lmao that's exactly what I was thinking!
Changoodie that's spot on. I paused it to figure out how the heck they stored stuff!
666 like yay
Right😂
same
Crazy thing, those ones that wouldn't let you film and seemed shady were probably doing illegal stuff. There is a whole shady side to buying those storage sheds.
I'm a couple of years late but I really liked this episode! I manage a self storage facility and I am also a huge comic book nerd, the comic book shop owner didn't lowball you, the 90's were a terrible era for the the comic book industry. The majority of the time that storage units that go up for auction are full of junk and stuff that the tenant no longer wants, so you actually scored a decent unit. Live auctions are becoming a thing of the past, the trend now is posting them online.
storage wars is shaking
brightxn ! They're quaking dam it. 😂
brightxn ! They’re are shook and quaked af
Yes
They are shook and quaking to the core .😂
I WAS LEGIT ABOUT TO POST THAT 😂😂
KRplusrs: Buying mistery boxes from eBay feeling cool and cray cray af
Safiya: BUYS A FUCKING STORAGE UNIT
I love her.
lmao
Lorena Favela you forgot the 2000's porn magazines and the comic books which are the most important
Why are there only 2 comments 😂
Imagine the look on the librarian's face when they start scanning those books that are like 20 years late 😂
“I can be a tap dancer” more like a TACK-dancer! HAHAHAHAHahahaha..... yeah it’s not that funny
This was great! Also the devil mask will haunt my dreams
philllll omg
Heyo
AmazingPhil phiiiiiiil omggggggg you kno safiya ily
Omg Phil you posted this 17 minutes Ago ! 😝
Philly!! ☺️
I want a 2nd video of this ! It was very interesting 😂👍🏻
LilGoofOfAGabby SAMEEEEE
Please do another video!!
same!!
Same
I agree! Interesting to see what is in the units! :D
Keep the shopping cart!!! I have 3 in my garage and they come in handy. Bringing the recycling to the dumpster, and easy way to roll a full cooler to the pool, and other random shenanigans during a really fun after hours party! Xo
You should attend a charity event that has an action. They usually get very cool donations that are fun to bid on, and the resulting $ helps the charity.
This girls attitude just makes me so happy! She’s so positive and so pretty! Found my new favorite youtuber!
Btw her name is safiya
Welcome to the Saf Club
Sara Reese Ok well then don’t watch escape the night season three episode 7
that was my exact thought when i found her account- now it’s been like 2 years and i still love her energy
Hmm..... i see you are a new customer 🧐🧐
I'm like 95% certain that someone was living in the unit. I worked for a storage company and usually if there are a lot of empty food packages and clothes then there was someone living in there
Dakota Bohn // rly? How’d they get in there? Is it not locked?
stfu. • It’s usually the person renting the unit so they have a key
// oof thats kind of disturbing... esp considering all the porn lmaooo i wouldn't have touched that shit if my life depended on it. im guessing that's not generally allowed?
Dakota Bohn but they lock from the outside not the inside
My friend manages storage unit complexes and he's seen people live in their units (like, takes shits in plastic bags and throw them up on the roof type of living in). There was even a suicide in one of his units a few years ago by carbon monoxide poisoning.
So yeah. It uh... is very possible.
The thing that bothers me about this is: sometimes, storage companies are shady as hell, and they sell units without talking to the person who rented them. That's actually something that happened to me. I had a whole collection of books I had received as a child, and they were in great condition. I have no idea who got them or what they did with them. My husband and I kept up with payments, but that didn't matter to the person who screwed us over.
How is this nearly 2 years old? I swear it came out like a couple months ago 😂
now is 4 years old :0
Imagine watching this like “hey that’s my old storage unit..um wow” 😂😂
Audrey Hoo I was thinking the same thing
Audrey Hoo no joke, that was my mom's old storage unit
😑 why she got porn then? she a devil worshipper?
Audrey Hoo right
KylaIsANerd ! Wait what???? Are you serious? That would be mental
do i smell a series?? i hope so!!
allison north sameeee
Yessss
WE NEED MORE
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please
Imagine if that mask was worth a lot lmao, I've seen those kinds of masks go for about 500 bucks!
We ain’t trying to wake up evil spirits
lol i was thinking the same thing
It would haunt your house
And I wanna know if there’s something in those dressers
i thought the same too
I would definitely try and get the mask down
Yeah I’m pretty sure the unit belonged to a married man and this was his “man cave” that he looked at porn in so his wife wouldn’t find out 🤢🤢🤢
Ronnie M Why would a wife be mad if her husband looks at porn? And why is that disgusting?😂
Kikiricki Kira it’s disgusting because they touched his stuff that he probably jizzed all over. And I don’t think masturbation is weird but some people are different so maybe his wife didn’t like it, idk.
@@hails326 I hope you think that way next time when you visit any friend of yours. Almost every bed is "jizzed". :)
@@Kikiricki11 Adults don't usually chill on their friends' beds once they graduated college.
@@glittery_cucumber Really? Because all my friends do. ^^'
Other KRplusrs: "I BOUGHT A $1000 MYSTERY BOX"
Saf: "That's cute" 😏
Amie Mariah she’s a fucking genius i love it
Safiya Nygaard Official faker
She spent only a hundred thats geniuss
Amie Mariah she’s so creative 😩
This was DEEPLY satisfying to watch. The cleaning, selling, tossing the trash, giving the library books back, it felt like you were just clearing the cutter of the world a little bit. Yeeeess.
Quibble S
Clutter*
o.o
So basically, you bought a Kyle’s storage unit
as a person that collects comics, i think he jipped them.
So did I, until the bubble burst in the early 90s. Most 90s books end up in the $1 bin, and even then they're hard to move. They did about as well as they were going to.
@@Raja1938 still, $110 is pretty low for over 400 comics, they should've gotten at least $170 or $200, and the guy would still have over 100% of profit
Jota C, only hypothetically. Until being sold they are just a trash.
@@JotaC Comicbooks just aren't as popular as they were 30+ years ago. $1 bin comics are in the $1 bin for a reason...they're hard to sell and a retailer is lucky to break even with the cost of storage, and lugging boxes and boxes of them from one convention to another, and even then many of them never sell. As a former collector myself, the vast majority of 90s books are basically good for wrapping fish.
@@Raja1938 Luca Brasi sleeps wit da fishes.
pleaseeeeeeeeee do a part 2! this was so fun and interesting! and I feel like it wasn't actually that expensive. like you have a fairly good chance at finding some goods 😂
Jewel Skye Yes! Please make part 2 i really enjoyed this
Jewel Skye o want 1,000,000 more of these
Jewel Skye yES
Jewel Skye yes!
Jewel Skye yes!
OMG, Tyler's re-enactment!!! 😂😂😂😂 I can't breathe!!
*breathe
He edited his comment. It wasn't spelled correctly in his OP.
so 3 years and 15 seasons of criminal minds later, this looks like a serial killers unit
"But, you know, the porn was okay"
I love that optimism of Safiya😆😆😆
Buzzfeed's next video: "We attended a storage unit auction!"
Amelia's Menagerie true they allways copy
Amelia's Menagerie this
Try Guys Try Buying Storage Units
@@aliciacastro7848 try guys are not part of buzzfeed anymore lol
No.
Imagining a creepy man propping himself on the lone chair, sipping Powerade enjoying the comics and 2000's porn.. thinking 'NOBODY shall ever know about my secret'.. here comes Saf & Ty.
wen wen nah nah he sat in the shopping cart😂
Also while wearing the devil mask
Don't forget... a tripod... that unit was so creepy
Safiya and Tyler bought a serial killer's storage unit 😂. This gives me Silence of the Lambs vibes.
I love how tylers willing to do whatever random things safiya wants to do hes very supportive
she is definitely one of the most original and creative youtubers, i love her
yea because no one has ever bought a storage locker and posted it here.
bsr8129 not exactly this idea is used a lot
I’m crying in utter despair because my cousin secretly put our great-great grandfather’s military swords in a storage unit in California, then neglected to pay the bill. He was never supposed to have those swords in the first place! My heart is broken 😭 Somebody, somewhere has my family heirlooms. If anyone ever happens to see one or two military swords *please please please* tell me right away 🙏 and we’ll see if they’re the right ones, and if yes, I will give a spectacular reward $$$$$$$. I’ll give anything to have my heirlooms safely in my custody again!
Ishi Guerrero agreed!!! I love the pair of them and all the different types of videos ... so diverse and FUN!!!
Im ptetty sure MrBeast copied Saf since like a week or 2 later he made the same exact video
You just changed the game Saf omg
Coralie Anne true. #trendsettersaf
PLEASE DO THIS AGAIN I LOVES THIS VIDEO!!!! MAKE IT A SERIES ❤️❤️❤️
She always does 💕💕
Every KRplusr: GUYS IM
SO NERVOUS TO OPEN THIS BOX!!
Safiya: I bought a storage unit.
No biggie
Paul is sweating.. "OH GOD.. THEY FOUND MY OLD JACK SHACK"
Saf gets more and more creative + wide-ranged with video ideas 👏🏼🧚🏼♀️
x mikhaela i agree
do.. you have an ariana grande fan account on instagram.. by any chance?
Shae * haha nope
x mikhaela okay haha i thought you were someone else
there is literally a TV show that exists that has the same idea
Imagine if the devil mask you left behind was some kind of artifact worth thousands of dollars...
BooksForever lmfao no its a spanish thing thats called brujeria that is evil thank god she didnt pick that mask up he must have been a brujero but whatever😂
Actually an authentic can be worth up to 3k... even some replicas are about 500
It seems like something a Babalawo would use on a santeria ritual
Megan Ceballos Brujeria isn’t evil! Misunderstood
Bitch that's how you get cursed
Me seeing Phil at the beginning “aww baby!”
Nobody:
Subtitles at 8:37 :
_power AIDS_
Regina Diggory I’m wheezing
“this string is too much for me” 🤣🤣
You should go to an auction of forgotten suitcases from the airport!
Minou Clormann YESSSSSS!!!!!!!
Yes
Is anyone going to question the one clip of a book called 'Butchers' with mugshots
I was about to say the same thing. I suspect it was a crerpy murderer that hungout in there
"This string is too much for me"
I felt that.
Tyler’s re-enactment of the bidding had me DEAAAD
on this episode of storage wars
Mr Not That Famous 300th like.
dillon fisher what?
200th like
It's crazy how rewatchable Saf's videos are!
My boyfriend buys storage units and then turns around and sells what he gets through his eBay store. It is so much fun!! I love going with him and then going through the unit to see what I can call dibs on, lol! One time I found an authentic couch purse that was in amazing condition. I still have it to this day, lol.
I love how you always take KRplus video trends to the next level. 🙌🏻
A little twist makes things more interesting. :)
This better be a series girl because I freaking loved this! Top notch content! Saf goes bidding, bidding with saf! Shit me this was binge worthy shit!
Amelia Pethullis krplus.net/bidio/Z6qPdJileoi1mWk
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Shilpi Gupta lol
I just love seeing auctions like this, it’s the hoarder in me, and I love seeing if I can find old sweaters to take apart and yarn (I like crocheting and not having to bleed my wallet dry to get yarn and make blankets).
I would love to do this! Thank you Safiya for giving us a firsthand look at this hobby ❤
Watch that frickin’ Satan mask be worth thousands of dollars
I read that as Santa and i was when the fuck is santa gonna pop up 😂😂😂😂😂
i was thinking the same thing, ive watched enough storage wars to know you ALWAYS go for the funky thing, its normaly bank
The most entertaining and creative person currently on KRplus!
Malia Intikhab definitely! I totally agree! I feel bad for buzzfeed, they really lost someone valuable.
Same, favorite person on KRplus right now
Malia Intikhab Ryan Higa is still the most creative person on yt for me
yeah ikr he would spend a lot of hours on a single video (the something million special one with the little ryanhiga cutouts)
Lilly Singh, Ryan Higa and Safiya Nygaard ♥
Love listening to her she is so positive and gets me motivated ❤️
Wow! I'm jealous of how clean your garage is!
PLEASE MAKE THIS A SERIES.
PLEASE!
PLEASE!
PLEASE!
*Storage Wars*
This is actually so cool please do more
Gheedgbg
Please don't I used to have an old storage unit and we could not pay for it I lost all my stuff........ including my mom's Ash's (yes she died.....)
Can you do another video exactly like this, meaning another storage unit haul thing
Autumn Hammons *hugs* I know this is probably very late but you have my condolences nonetheless :) Have a lovely day/evening!
Bakers CLUB late, but it will go either way, so why does it matter if she does or doesn’t?
Basically:
They said we can’t film, so we’re just gonna film secretly
Thank you for sharing this experience with us! 🙏🏻
This is some next level mystery box trend
シkIiツ ii
tbh i would do this too
"i dressed in clothes from a storage units for a week" youre all welcome lmao
Scotty Girl 101 Eventually she's gonna have a video which is a mash-up of all her videos. 😂
Shinx002 I dressed like it was a holo, 1980 , manaquin, storage unit 😂
*from wish 😂
"I bought the first 5 sCheck storage units I found and dressed with their clothes for a week". Wait. Did I just think of that?
Scotty Girl 101 And the final day she'll combine them with the Uggs/Tiva hybrids, the see-through knee mom jeans, and the tutu shirt. 😂
Imagine buying one of these bad boys and it's Joe Goldberg's glass chamber
That storage unit is a time capsule for a late-90s/early-2000s comic book/pop culture nerd. As a member of that tribe myself, I can immediately visualize the type of person who would have owned that storage unit, though by all appearances he (it was DEFINITELY a male) was trying to position himself as a 'cool' nerd, as indicated by the Sixers jersey, denim jacket and hat.
next up on buzzfeed: we tried buying abandoned storage units for a day!!
lol. so true.
No Friends for real tho lol
oh god you are so right xD
Not going to lie, came here to see if someone else would say it.
Try guys each buy storage units and compete to earn the most from the one they picked 👌
Tyler's face acting like he is buying 😂😂😂
Please do another! i really enjoyed watching this, as well as your amazon returns haul! I hope you make more videos like this soon.
ok so weddings vlog is over. Now we need a 2.0 OF THIS!
I think you should do this more. Make a series or something
K K lol I love your pic! Smooshed face pup
YES! SERIES!
Yes! Please do this again!
Yesss
I wanted her to open more storage units but the process seems like pain in the ass I kinda feel bad for hwr
MAKE 👏 THIS 👏 A 👏 SERIES 👏
Sofia1_1 yasss pleaseee
there already is a series... it's called storage wars
There would not be much to do in this series tho do you think so i do!
Sofia1_1 YESSSS
👏YASS👏GIRL👏YASS👏
My mom had a storage unit and it eventually got auctioned off as she couldn’t pay for it there was a ton of great stuff in there and a painting from my great grandma signed “grandma” instead of her real name my mom has never gotten the painting back
i LOVED this omg. Do it again!!!
Those library books may not have been stolen. I’ve purchased library books for $.50-$1 because the library is getting rid of less popular books to make way for newer ones.
True, but I'll bet every one of them was marked "discarded" in one way or another. If these we not, they were stollen.
@@SabrinaMBowen yeah, even at my library, they'd use a marker to mark out the name and code bar to keep them from coming back in situations like this
My exact thoughts.
Years ago, my school’s library was giving away books that they didn’t want anymore. They did not cross out their stamps or anything. They just took them off the shelves and gave them away.
Well if they had sold them, they can resell them and get some money. They were interesting that enough for someone to buy again
Safiya, trend setter. **sits back and waits for the explosion of copycats**
OMG u should definitely do another 1 it was so interesting 😸
I totally would have hung back for the furniture lol. But that might just be me, I love making over old furniture.
safiya is THRIVING, buzzfeed, not so much
Cons Lorenzo it’s not Like Buzzfeed has a #1 trending vid rn but ok
She doesn't hate BuzzFeed but I think she doesn't like her content to be compared to BuzzFeed. She doesn't want her content to have a connection with BuzzFeed if that makes sense. But Comparing Her and her Bf with an Entire Company that has hundreds of employees would be a little bit of a compliment. As in her content is seen as better than or to par with a huge company that does videos on KRplus. Plus I like to think her content is more original and trends more on KRplus like the "Wish" videos.
Dat true
Mandi Reyes No I know she's was from BuzzFeed. Everyone has seen her "Why I left BuzzFeed" video. She also talks about it on Shane Dawson's podcast which I listen to religiously lol
Mandi Reyes Shane tells her that her videos are nothing like BuzzFeed and she thanks him for saying that.
Generally, it's not a good idea to sell stuff to the person appraising it.
dude, she was mostly just trying to get rid of it, turning a profit clearly wasn't her main goal
@@hollygarfield123 dude, that's why I said "generally"
@@hollygarfield123 Just on principle you shouldn't keep scammers in business
She's worth 2.4 million so I highly doubt she was trying to gain a few hundred, but I'm sure you were also trying to let others know not to go that route.
sciamhach I thought I was the only person thinking this 😂
I was a comic book collector in the 90s. Whenever I tried to look into selling some the store owners refused to even look at them.
A lot of value for any collectable is in rarity first and condition second. As he said, there were a lot of comics in the 90s. It doesn't matter how well you kept them, if the buyer could get 40 more without trying, he's not interested.
I actually ended up putting 200+ comics in the recycle pile. I was just sick of having them clutter up my room.
Thank you for putting so much effort in your videos!
The guy who owned the unit: "Oh so *that's* where I put my Powerade 17 years ago........"
mae it’s just a casual common mistake
the subtitles spelled it power AIDS
i think thats the english word for gatorade or something because i never heard of powerade
@Ivy ? they’re actually different! they’re owned by different companies and have different sodium levels (a lot of people buy the brand with less sodium, forgot which one it is) i was really confused too!
PART 2 PLEASE!
Yas I really want to see another one
YES
Yes
Yeeeesss!!
YES
Hello! New subscriber here. I love how most of your videos seem to take a whole lot of effort and going about and prep work and such. Watching it all to end has so much pay off :)) they're so addictive haha keep up the great work!
I love Tyler’s re-enactments of his bidding. Too funny 🤣
Man this is why I love Saf. She sees trend like the eBay mystery boxes and take it to her own whole new unique level. Her videos are also completely unique
every youtuber: buys a mystery box
Saf: buys a FUCKING STORAGE UNIT
legend
Rando comment from someone who has worked 7 years un the California storage business: Auctions are canceled all the time because the owners of the unit are legally allowed to come pay and reclaim up to the second the auctioneer says "sold." During an auction I carry a walkie-talkie so I know to shut down a sale immediately if it is paid for last minute, which happens a lot. Usually a settlement even as low as 50% is going to be more than what we make auction, so if the owner wants to show up, make a final payment, clear their stuff out in 24 hours, and let us have the space back, it's in our best interest to make a deal. If a lot of people pay off early enough so there are only a couple small units left, managers will cancel auctions so they don't build a negative reputation with buyers. A lot of people turn over units professionally and you want to make sure you attract the pros, so disappointing auctions lose you money in the long run, it's better to just shut it down and add those to the next one.
Also, our only option legally in CA to reclaim an abandoned unit is to auction the items after going through a very complex sequence of events. The account usually goes through a warning process, then pre-lien, which is a certified letter and a fee, the lien, which is another certified letter and a fee, and then after enough units are 30 days past lien you reach the lock cut point. Unlike Storage Wars, in CA we are legally required to cut the locks ahead of time and inventory the units. Most places will hire a bonded third party to come cut the locks so that the owners can't be accused of stealing from the units pre-auction. (There are many stories of storage employees sneaking items out of pre-auction units, then getting caught when the owners pay up at the last second.) It gets a bit weird here, because until the unit is either sold or paid for, we are not allowed to "cross the threshold," but we are required to do an inventory. What this ends up equating to is a list of items we can see from the door like "boxes, rug, babyseat, trash bags, tool box". We are then legally required to take that list and publish it in a local newpaper along with the name of the person being auctioned and the auction dates (no, seriously, that's a law) which usually ends up being a legal journal of some kind because they fill the requirements and are cheap.
Then after all that and two more weeks, you can legally auction the contents IF the owner doesn't arrive at the last second. Technically you are allowed to perform your own auction, however it is a lot safer legally to pay an actual auctioneer to do it for you. They are bonded, often advertise or have a loyal following, and know how to drive up prices.
It gets so much more complicated but I'll stop myself there. So um. That's probably why your auction was canceled.