Unsealing A Sealed Auction - 32 Servers & Server Blades

I might be a useful and interesting excercise to know what is a reasonable bid to make when one encounters a sealed-bid auction for computer waste such as this real-life example that I pulled from an auction site.

I don't actually plan to bid on this auction; I'm only provided this example as a means for everyone to say what they would bid on this lot if they had the chance. It's a way for us, the escrappers, to gain insight into what the lowest/highest bids might be on a sealed auction such as the one for this list of equipment.

To simplify the game, we are going to assume that everything here is damaged beyond repair--nothing to resell for more than scrap value on CL or eBay.

So, what would be your bid on this lot if you plan to break it down for scrap?

13 Dell Poweredge 2800

5 Dell PowerEdge 750



2 Dell PowerEdge 1850 (2X Intel Xeon 2.8, Floppy drive, 16GB RAM, One device comes with hard drive)

2 Dell 2650 Rack Mount

Barracuda Spam Firewall 300

SonicWALL Pro 3060

Dell PowerEdge 860

Dell PowerEdge SC 1435

Dell PowerEdge SC 420

Dell PowerVault 124T

Dell PowerVault 725N

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Proliant ML330

Only the Poweredge 2800's come with power cords

Dune and I just did some servers if they got the ram sticks in them and are only missing power cord and hard drives which there is a few of those you said I imagine you could make pretty good money at $7 each.

Did the auctio site give the whiegt? If it did I would bid .25per lb and maybe .30. Chances are I would lose but I wouldn't pay more than .30 lbs. I sell by the lbs. and I buy by the lbs. thats just me.

These replies are very insightful. If you won it at .25 or .30 per pound, you could hardly loose money since the shred price will cover about half, if not more, of your investment. Surely, there's another .10 to .15 in scrape value beyond the shred.

My sense is that the winning sealed bid will come in significantly higher than any number thus far tossed out. Of course, we'll never know. That's the crazy thing about sealed bid auctions. And why I don't like them.