Police Car Computers

[JollyLlama]

What do you all think of this auction? It's a lot of units and the price is still pretty low. There shouldn't be any desktop resellers bidding it up either.



Public Surplus: Auction #730527

[mikeinreco]

I would like to see them closer but I would go at least a couple of hundred mabye more if I could see them up close

[Bear]

not real knowledgable on those computers, nor taken the time to research them, but would bet resellers will be all over that, and expect the price to go very much higher

[Bear]

they give the model numbers, do some googling and see what the market looks like for em. That isn't fool proof though, I once bought 100 laptop battery chargers from a surplus auction, the price went to about 400 as best I recall, but there was no information to be found online about these things. After I won the auction, and was talking to the one in charge there (i believe it was Census, Department of Commerce or something like that), I asked if they'd fit in the back of a small pickup, he said I'd better bring a trailer. These things were huge, about as square as a 24 case of canned cokes, but a few inches thicker, and not only filled my truck over the cab, but the 4x10 trailer as high ( loaded it like hay, looked about like it too) wound up with 103 total. They were Dell, would charge 4 laptop batteries at once, were still in the original packaging (some had never been opened), and weighed about 25 pounds each. The guy told me someone had ordered about 400 too many of these. I paid roughly $5 each, and found they'd sold new for about 700, and were still in the warrantee. The reason there was no info on them was that Dell had began pushing another bigger, more expensive unit, which charged 16 batteries at once (used by major users who had hundreds of company laptops), and Dell didn't want people to know too much about them, or know about the warantee. I began listing them on Ebay and they sold at around $60-70. It was so easy even my Mom could do it. They were still in their original boxes, actually I paid her to do the shipping from here while I was busy moving from TN, all she had do was remove a few labels, attach a new one to ship. I'd email her the addresses. They sold extremely well, before it was over I was listing them buy it now for $59, then $49, and eventually $39, so I could get them sold before the warantee expired. Dell was going nuts on this deal, every time I'd link to info on them, the link would go bad ; ), but they were bound to honor the warantees, a few of which I claimed myself, and they'd be forced to send me their newer unit, 16 battery charger, which sold well at $199. Any of my customers who got a bad one, I'd give them the phone number to the office handling it, and they be happy as hek when they got the new one, Dell even had to cover all shipping, including the return for the old one.

[ScrapYaHerd]

^Awesome story, I once found around 600 or more packages of contact lens solution. They were un-expired and I tried to sell on ebay and craiglist, no one bought them so I gave them away, and used some as targets.

[scrappy888]

Curious if u bought them?.. they had a few singles that sold for a buck something in mn..didnt bid since it was a 30 mile one way drive..they kinda seem like they would be laptops n i hate HATE taking those apart