At 01:33 PM 10/25/04 -0700, Tom Ponsford wrote: Dunno if that is good or bad. ;) Several times at auctions I have found boxes that are junk on the top layer, and treasure on the bottom. Bidding on those lots can look pretty crasy to people who haven't looked.

I always call them "goody boxes". Our biweekly auction usually has over several hundred lots. About half the lots are piles o' stuff on pallets. This weeks goody pallets I picked up were: A pallet of sparc stuff that included several sparc 5 @170mhz, some sparc 10's,20's and a perfectly good Ultra-5 that was at the bottom. Sitting on top of all the sparcs were several of the huge old Sun monitors, which no one wanted to move (except me) to actually see what was under the monitors. The lot cost me $2.50. Another pallet of goodies included all dec stuff; A microvax 3100-80, Vax 4000vlc, 2 vaxstation 3100's several decstation 3000/300's and a perfectly good alphastation 200 4/233 and a boxload of cables which at the bottom had lots of dec documentation and a copy of vms. This lot ended up costing me nothing as I sold some of the other stuff on the pallet to the guy who bid against me. I usually go the day before the auction on "preview" day and dig through the lots that are in boxes or pallets and boxes. And shame on me if I "accidentally" cover up (bury) the good stuff on these pallets under lots of junk. That's why I go early so I don't have to uncover stuff that others have buried :-). Still there are lots and boxes I haven't thouroghly inspected as they contained stuff on the pallet I was bidding on/buying anyway. Those are the real surprizes. Cheers Tom Tothwolf wrote: -- --- Please do not read this sig. If you have read this far, please unread back to the beginning.