29 Apr
2009
29 Apr
'09
10:14 p.m.
On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Brian Lanning wrote:
Shipping containers are nowhere near this expensive unless you buy
them brand new. 20ft and 40ft containers, for example, go all day
long on eBay, all over the country, for $1000-$1500, sometimes even
as low as $750. (not climate-controlled units of course) If you
find a company that is overstocked, you can get them for even less
than that if you show up with cash and can make a container disappear.
I've been hoping for some time to get one here to replace a
hellishly-expensive storage locker.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I'll bite,
what are these going for?
$3000 or $4000 iirc. The problem is that it's cheaper to dump the
empty containers here rather than pay to ship them back to china
empty. They were just buying new ones in china. There's huge stacks
of these in california. Although, the economy may put an end to all
that. Do a google search. There's companies selling them and all
sorts of projects turning them into houses.