Insane government auction sites - 3 thousand dollar survey device going for 25 dollars

[thick internet digit web]

I derailed a thread recently with a government auction site which was selling insane shit for ridiculously low prices, so i decided to make a thread for it and the ridiculous items on sale. Clearly, they do not even know what the hell the value is of these things and sell it so far below market value it's actually funny, so i'm putting them here for you to laugh at.

Just to get an idea of how under priced these are, that top one costs 25k when i checked. The total value of these must exceed 100k and they are going for 3k each.

This device costs 3 thousand dollars.

Here's a bunch of cars going for 100$ each.

Bunch of buses going for 1 dollar. Loads more above for 100.

Bunch of computers going for low prices, those toughbooks go at 300$ at the lowest to 3000$ at the highest. The i7 goes for something stupidly high as well.

 

[cjöcker]

OP.... Are you using a Mac? Please take advantage on some of the deals for computers.

 

[thick internet digit web]

OP.... Are you using a Mac? Please take advantage on some of the deals for computers.

i don't live in america unfortunately, nor do i use a mac. it's a linux OS.

 

[Un Platano]

The one thing that has consistently prevented me from taking advantage of these types of auctions is that so many of them sell all of this stuff in lots. I would buy an old monitor for $20, but I wouldn't buy 10 old monitors for $200 because I have neither the money nor the space to be hoarding junk like that. It might be a great deal though if you have a plan to resell most of them later.

Shipping is also a problem with these. A lot of them won't do shipping at all and will expect you to come to their warehouse and pick it up yourself. It's especially a problem for the vehicles. What good is a $1 bus to you when it's on the other side of the continent and doesn't run?

 

[thick internet digit web]

The one thing that has consistently prevented me from taking advantage of these types of auctions is that so many of them sell all of this stuff in lots. I would buy an old monitor for $20, but I wouldn't buy 10 old monitors for $200 because I have neither the money nor the space to be hoarding junk like that. It might be a great deal though if you have a plan to resell most of them later.

Shipping is also a problem with these. A lot of them won't do shipping at all and will expect you to come to their warehouse and pick it up yourself. It's especially a problem for the vehicles. What good is a $1 bus to you when it's on the other side of the continent and doesn't run?

If you have a van then the problem with space is sorted, but i'm pretty sure the humvees are working so you can just drive off in it, and come back for your car

 

[3119967d0c]

If you have a van then the problem with space is sorted, but i'm pretty sure the humvees are working so you can just drive off in it, and come back for your car

Most US states do not allow you to title a milsurp HMMWV for on-road use- at least without extensive modifications.

Yes, I'm aware that they were driven on regular roads when they were in military use. A foolish consistency...

 

[A Logging Company]

Almost bought an old police dept Crown Vic with the intent to resell from that site years ago. Got into a wreak 2 weeks later and could have used it for myself.

 

[Margo Martindale]

Sooo, are you gonna provide us the name of this website?

 

[3119967d0c]

Sooo, are you gonna provide us the name of this website?

It's govdeals.com

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[Rozzy]

There's some great computing deals but I don't want a whole pallet of them.

https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.AdvSearchResultsNew&searchPg=Category&additionalParams=true&sortOption=ad&timing=BySimple&timingType=&category=29