Sealed bid YES On last weeks bid I won a VAX4000-300 for $82. a bunch if DIgiboards for $5.00 ea. Sorry everyone that has commercial value to me. Not at all. This equipment is from a new division that did not have a surplus sales group. Tha format was different than the usual bid lists so I called my rep. about last weeks list and they are hoping to get 5 cents on the dollar. Anything that does not sell will be going to be recycled as they are very carefull about EPA regs. I have been doing business with them for over a year. The regular weekly bids I rarely get good deals on - about 70% to 80% of wholesale are typical. The special bids like these are where I make out. I will admit that this equipment is not the usual type they offer - remember it is a newly acquired division. I would be sure to be over the scrap value (figure 50 to 75 cents a pound is scrap value) but based on the bid I won last week not more than 5% of wholesale new. I still do not know why they put that in there. I actually have 15 days credit limit and YES I am hoping that everyone will be following through because I will be stuck with the equipment if they don't. I have had some long discussions with a couple of people on this list about this and was informed that most everyone is quite honorable. Another note of interest I have only gotten the response for 1 of last weeks bids so far. It had to be in on monday and I got the response thursday (1 day late). Tuesdays bids were supposed to be released thursday. When I get the response to those bids I will let you know. Don't worry if I think any bids are to high I will let you know. I can only do this however on equipment that I am familiar with. For shipping considerations due to the amount I won on last weeks bid I have told them to change it to truck and gave them my account info for a major truck line, This is the first time I have had to change to truck shipping. Also for figuring shipping I am in North Carolina. Dan Burrows 336-376-0468 dburrows(a)netpath.net