It was thus said that the Great Bill Sudbrink once stated:
I've been to several of these. While
otherwise wonderful, these
auctions have classic "government auction" problems. You'll see, for
example, a lot consisting of three pallets of stuff...one will contain
a Dynabyte or something like that with ZERO cash value but that you'd
really love to get, and the rest of it will consist of 2.5 pallets of
dead VGA monitors. During the auction you'll find some guy who bids
the lot up to $3,000. Wondering why, you watch him loading it into
his truck at the end of the day...and underneath the dead VGA monitors
will be one HP 8566B spectrum analyzer or something like that, that he
will have ALREADY SOLD on his cell phone for $20,000.
In your expirence, and using the above example, could you approach the guy
and make an offer for the Dynabyte or will he get pissy or greedy?
In my experience (auction at a university, lost some cool HPs and monitors
to a pair of guys like this) they'll probabably say no right there, call us
back later once we've had time to inventory the stuff (and the cynical side
of me would like to add: and set a price to gouge you since you've actually
shown an interest).
-spc (Never could get a hold of them ... )