15 Apr
2007
15 Apr
'07
11:04 p.m.
Richard wrote...
The best is if you can find items that are local to
you. That's what
I've bought in the past, to avoid shipping hassles, but honestly its
usually just the case that the stuff I want is in the middle of 18
pallets of stuff at a remote location.
Then Richard is one of the comparatively few who live right next to a
govliquidation site.
To the 99.999% of the rest of us.... buying from govliq means paying a
fairly hefty amount of shipping, and you'll never know exactly what the
shipping costs are really till after the auction. Not reliably anyways.
I'm not knocking govliq... I like them and buy from them. But you just have
to be in the position to say "I'm willing to pay just about whatever the
shipping might be and agree to that beforehand without knowing the amount".
Sometimes - and also depending on the item - I'm in that category. Sometimes
I am not :) My experience is that govliq doesn't like to hassel around with
people trying to save a few bucks on shipping. They are used to commercial
buyers who aren't going to whine about every shipping dollar.
Jay