15 Apr
2007
15 Apr
'07
11:54 p.m.
One should also add that most of the "packer's" available through the
govliq web site treat ALL materials coming from these auctions as
scrap metal. Despite attempts to get "special handling" at several
locations (with offers to PAY EXTRA for it), the packing that
actually occurs is usually abysmal.
s shumaker
At 03:04 PM 4/15/2007, you wrote:
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