Maine State Surplus auction 8/30

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08-29-2013, 07:24 AM
Mick

Maine State Surplus auction 8/30

Went to the preview today as I was interested in the advertised "Pallets of Bargain PCs and Laptops without Operating Systems in lots of 5 and 10". I was imagining pallets in lots of 5 and 10 (pallets).

Total waste of time. There were no pallets. The computers were grouped by one group of 5 computers and one group of ten computers on a cart. Total 15 computers. This will be a "silent" auction. There is a box on the cart for you to put a slip of paper in with your name, etc, which group and your bid on that group. The minimum bid for the group of five is $100 and the group of 10 is $200. In other words, $20 a computer without a Hard Drive. Other electronic equipment was equally as high or higher. The bid method was explained as avoiding hiring an auctioneer.

On the bright side, I stopped at a car dealership on the way home. A guy who works there had bought some cast iron pans from me a couple years ago and asked me to let him know if I got any more. I'd gotten four pans and three lids a couple months ago and been carrying them around in the back of the pickup. Asked for $10 and he didn't even quibble. So, I got back the $10 I'd spent on breakfast, anyway.
08-29-2013, 11:13 AM
BRASSCATCHER

Mick if they were core 2 machines or better it may be worth the price tag. I can sell them to my repair place between $40-$100 each depending on the speed of the cpu and if they are regular sized towers or small form factors. The small form ones command a higher price since they are usually business machines. He also pays that price without hard drives included. If you have a repair shop nearby that will buy them it opens up the auctions a bit more to you.
08-29-2013, 11:35 AM
travistemple202020

thanks for sharing you are making the great point that you should always look at the stuff your going to buy when bidding at auctions cause pics are only worth the thousand words that the person taking the picture has in mind to express lol
08-29-2013, 01:10 PM
Mick

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Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

Mick if they were core 2 machines or better it may be worth the price tag. I can sell them to my repair place between $40-$100 each depending on the speed of the cpu and if they are regular sized towers or small form factors. The small form ones command a higher price since they are usually business machines. He also pays that price without hard drives included. If you have a repair shop nearby that will buy them it opens up the auctions a bit more to you.

Ray, I thought along those lines for a minute. But these are from the State - which means "lowest bid gets the contract".

I moved on to components - there was a box of 512mb RAM sticks for $5 each, being sold as untested.