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3 Pallets: Highest bid 260.00 as of now...closes one hour...!!!
28 CPU's,3 Monitors,& 2 Boxes of Keyboards,Mice,Powerstrips
19 Printers/Scanners
19 Monitors
The cpus are all HP's as far as I can tell with intel cpus inside...and the whatnot of course...it's a mystery with these city auctions...
Hope someone smart catches this!
Aidan
seems a little high to me for scrap
here's the auction link w/ pics
http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/auc...iew?auc=698563
Lot of work there....Little profit but you could make money but not much
i'm sore about it. i can do the work. no problem. but it does seem steep at this point. thanks
$6 X 28 = 168 that would have been my highest bid. I figure $5 per tower plus a little extra for the other items which I don't expect much from the extras. Mike.
yeah...good estimatin Miked...I agree. Thanks.
The printers are the good ones (well most of them) they are the printer,copyer,scanner combo's they have mid grade boards 3 or 4 moters lots of wires and heavy steel. I also save the mylar from the key boards, I dont do the moniters, the towers might not have the hd. I wouldn't pay more than 100 but than again thats just me if I can't get it for free then I pass. To much free stuff out there.
Problem for me is that the auctions in nys and NYC people are bidding way over what I can to make a profit. Have my eye on a sealed bid auction for 29000lbs of fired shell casings. Trying to find out when they previously sold this stuff and what winning bid was. Should be a record of it since it is being sold by city and has to be public knowledge. Have to call on Monday. I figure as long as none of the scrap yards are bidding I may have a shot...yeah right. Brass is going for somewhere around 2 bucks lb so if I can get it for half that I can turn a nice profit. Yards be me take it and firing caps do not have to be removed.
Lot of farm auctions out here, every time I go to one,after gas paid for, usually can double my money on what I buy but have gotten skunked at auctions too.
I've been watching different lots on surplus auction sites , I know some sites u need an outrageous security deposit just to bid, some require witness mutilation of items purchased, besides that some of the lots seem to good to b true.
I don't bother with competing with professional (a.k.a. rich and always gonna win anyway) auction buyers. Actually, I've taken a break from it for now. I have decided instead to network more and get my friends, family, and people from work to bring me the stuff they don't want. For now, it's working.
+ the buyers premium+ the cost of transport+the cost of time and equip to tear it down+ cost up disposing of waste material its a looser bud. with the auctions out of hand these days. you may still find a nugget now and then but it will be just as hard as finding a real gold nugget. just my .02
I hear ya on the ridiculous auctions. My single best government auction score was 1,254 lbs of copper for $310 bucks. Came from a Utah IRS auction.
After I stripped it, it came in at 1,029 lbs.
Sadly I recycled it when copper was low. ($1.80/lb #2) I didn't know any better at the time. Made $1,400 for 2 days work though, so it worked out.
Never again have I come across a scrap auction that wasn't out of control. Sometimes wonder if mine was a total fluke.