Originally posted by: RossMAN
C'DaleRider,
How did you discover this bankruptcy auction?
Sorry I didn't get to answer your question earlier.......I just had to crash last night. I'd been up almost 20 hours and have another auction at 10am this morning, leaving in about an hour from now.
I found out about it from the auction house I frequent on Thursday nights (household auction every tThursday). The auctioneer was the one who worked the Savannah Symphony auction. He had fliers at the last Thurs. auction announcing this one. It also ran as a advert in the legal section of the Savannah Morning News, the Sav. newspaper.....another good place to find such auctions.
We also find a few on teh 'net......searching GA/SC aucions on Google. I go to at least three a week locally and get a lot of info on what/where/when from there....fliers and word-of-mouth.
Other stuff I got...............a HP 6P Laserjet printer with a brand new toner cartridge, $10; a 17" Princeton monitor, $5; a pair of PII 350mHz computers complete w/Win2K for $5 each; a pair of mahogany framed armed side chairs, upholstered in a flame-stitch pattern (using them in the dining room) for $2 each; a living room chair...walmut frame, carved arms and legs, grey upholstery, for $3; a pair of table lamps in varigated black marble and gold, $30each (most I spent on any single item that day......but I've seen these lamps retailing for around $300 apiece); a Pelouze 5lb digital postal scale, $6; an Iomega Zip100 drive, external w/power supply (clear blue case) for $4; tons of paper and envelopes......probably enough to last years and years; and lost of other junk. All electrical items worked perfectly.....which is different for an auction. (My rule of thumb for electrical items at auctions is: If they don't plug it in, it probably doesn't work.)
As far as splitting out the stuff.............well, sorry. It's being "auctioned off" right now as we speak. The Mac Office sold the next day for $125, which about paid for my day of bidding. A set of the HP laser cartridges, a cyan, a magenta, and a yellow (carts C4193/4/5A for HP printers 4500/4550) are currently at $50 each on ebay ($7 shiiping for one, $3.50 additional for each additional cart. bought). The copier toners (Konica and Sharp) just went up last night. I'd planned on selling the Pitney Bowes machine until I found out it had that balance, so I'm going to keep it.....I do need to buy a new ink cartridge for it, but a $40 investment for a $576 return seems like a good deal.
If anyone wants to know about auctions, I'd be glad to pass on some pointers on stuff I've learned over the 6 years I've been going to auctions............there IS a little to pay attention to and things to do and not do.
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