Today at the California Surplus Auction in Sacramento

I've been going to these auctions for awhile, and there is usually nothing of scrap value to bid on. (I think they do their own scrapping at this warehouse.) But, there are some deals to be had once in awhile. I only walked away with 5 cases of new RAM this time, and I actually didn't notice when the price went $50 over what I wanted to pay. It was closing in on 100 degrees inside the surplus warehouse.

Anyway, some things that may be of interest to people:

Pentium 4 desktops sell for at least $25 up to $40. These usually have around 3.0ghz processor 1-2 gigs ram, 40 gig hd.
Core 2 desktops sell for $25-70 (usually stick around $50 each) same other specs as the p4 except the processors.

LCD Monitors - There are 3 categories here. First category is single unit lots 17" or higher that go for 50-120 each. Second is one-layer pallet lots of untested but good looking monitors. Still usually 17"+ pallets. These lots go for 200-250 ea. Lastly is the gaylords of whatever other lcds they have. Sizes and condition are all over the place. These go for around 200 each usually.

Bankers boxes of finger cards. They usually keep these in like-type lots. So, video are by themselves, modems, etc. Video usually go for about 100, less for others.

Gaylords of keyboards 100-200. A 1/2 gaylord of mice went for over 300 today.

Also, there were 3 larger sized boxes of laptops (maybe 1/3 the size of a big gaylord). Untested, no HDD, no RAM. Look to be all p4 dells, but you can't dig through. Missing covers and such. All three were bid up to $2900 today...I say good luck.

Core2 laptops went for about $150 each. Dell p4 laptops all went over $100...



As for other things, there is the normal TSA stuff boxes of knives and multi-tools that go over $1000. Boxes of wine openers, lighters, bleh.

Normally brand new surplus restaurant equipment. They set high reserves on these. Usually starting at 50% of the price you would pay at a store...sometimes a lot more.

There is usually office furniture, cabinets, etc I don't stick around for these at the end. They go for more than scrap value always.

If I had a bigger warehouse, there were Cushman 36V Stock chasers that went for $500ea. One of those would have been nice.

The only thing that went for scrap today were the CRTs. One guy bought a bunch of them for an ok price. Unfortunately, most of these were TVs and were 32"+. Have fun sir.

Overall, I think I would have rather stayed home this time, but you can't get a deal unless you go!

I need to come hang out with you for auctions. Ha!

Bummer ya didn't get nothing. Like ya said tho, can't get a deal if you don't go.

Sirscrapalot - Tis nothing more beautiful and tasty then a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie.

No kidding. They put all of the flashy stuff at the beginning of the auction and let the non-regulars go crazy on them. Then, it mostly clears out.

wow im glad I live here in iowa I know auctions can go high sometimes when someone wants it bad but I get pallets of monitors for free most of the time and auctions as high as $20 for a pallets of 17inplus lcd with about 25-35 on them depending on how they pack them p4's that have 2gb or less and 120gb hard drives or less go maybe on a good day as high as $10 I get them for $5 or less usually just say I want this whole row or lot and do $3 each get 15-40 that way in a single pop but laptops are about the same price though since that's mostly what people want working to use or resell to use but only fully complete as a scrap pallets though with hard drives gone I bid no more than $1.50each for 2008 newer and 50cents for those older than that but working ones will usually sell as each unit. crt's only sell for scrap here since local but online there will be bidders from all over for resale to drive up prices but most of us here take turns just taking them for free or if they have to sell them as government then its this weird thing for awhile in which they will load about 50 in a lot and do $6 for which I have talked to people and still not sure why $6 but its all around the area that way. wish I could sell stuff were you at though at those prices I could buy me a nice farm house to work from lol