On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:03:05 -0700, the infamous Gunner Asch
scrawled the following:

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:50:13 -0700 (PDT), Cynthia McGraw
wrote:


How expensive is buying a used container? I just passed a yard on the
bay side of the I880 in Oakland that had a sign announcing containers
for sale. I'm thinking of buying one. Owning a container would remove
time constraints, allowing you to line up cranes, fork lifts, trucks
on a slower time schedule which would allow make your moves when
things are slow for the various trades involved.
Then you could sell the container to recoup some of your losses or
just keep it for storage.

40' containers, in good condition, can be had here in California for
$1000-2000

Cash might be a bit better.

20 and 40 footers are $4k here in SoOR, $3k in Portland, where most
originate. It's disgusting.

Hell, you can buy $2k worth of Chiwanese goods and have 'em delivered
in a free container for that matter. sigh

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