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No offense Phillip, starting!?!, thats the funniest thing I've heard all month!I am beginning to question the integrity of the auction process there.
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No offense Phillip, starting!?!, thats the funniest thing I've heard all month!I am beginning to question the integrity of the auction process there.
Yeah, saw all the larger ammo can lots seem to suddenly have reserve prices. Of course, the reason they were going cheaper is that the number of folks who can move a thousand cans (or 10 pallets even) is lower. I just don't get why they don't just sell them a pallet at a time if they want higher prices.I just talked with the manager of GL at Fort Lewis/McCord last week and he told me that management was trying to bring in more money using this "reserve" strategy .
At least we can rest easy, since Storage Wars is as fake as it gets, script and all, but I'm sure "enemies" at real auctions pull dirty stuff on each other too.Just watch an episode of Storage Wars sometime, half the "drama" is one guy trying to run up another guy just to cut into his profit for the **** of it...
Yeah, it's on TV. All TV is fake. The "news" is questionable.At least we can rest easy, since Storage Wars is as fake as it gets, script and all, but I'm sure "enemies" at real auctions pull dirty stuff on each other too.
I have to disagree there. I have bid on at least 50 lots in the last month, none of them were won. Yes I am cheap, but if I can't get something reasonably priced(half of retail), I let it go. It might be because I am near a national outlet, but still, the prices I have seen, are high.There's so much of the non rolling stock the market is flooded most of it dosnt go for much and it's gotta be expensive to manage all that stuff. Especially with smaller sites that did both rolling and non rolling stock before.
I have been seeing a lot of generators going for very high bids in the last two years now. I think the word is getting out to the general public that these military generators are a good buy. You see articles in a lot of DIY magazines talking about military generators. I have even read some in a few 4X4 magazines. So either the Sheeple are buying them or the surplus guys are upping there game to meet demand.Anybody see what the 803a went for on GL Mechanicsburg tonight? $4900 final bid. That's over $5700 out the gate for unknown running condition. Sure it looked nice, but isn't that full retail price for a tested working unit?
Chambersburg? I wouldn't say it was crazy. Five of them went for under $600. I bought four that I considered "good" for $600, $616, $670, $800, including one runner. The rest were between $800-1000 except for a runner with 20 hours on the meter that went for ~$1500.Man, talk about human nature. So the rest of the gennies with the previous reserve just finished bidding. Most ok ones went for more than what the reserve was set at last time!
So no reserve and you guys are bidding away like crazy? Weird.
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