On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:05:02 -0500, you wrote:

>At 09:09 PM 1/13/03 +1000, you wrote:
>>On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:02:07 +0000, Mike Harrison wrote:
>>There's a couple of Picstart Plus's buried amongst a load of
>>whitegoods & consumer electronics at
>>this upcoming auction in Manchester UK
>>
>>Well I was almost going to find my self a proxy bidder until I saw
>>the =A3200 bidding deposit. Still I understand the reason why. Some
>>GPS's seem to be there as well.
>
>Same thing around here, generally a $500 bidder's deposit. Keeps
>out some of the riff-raff.=20
The going rate in the UK tends to be UK=A350, but probably depends mostly=
 on the auctioneer's past
experience.

>More to the point, at industrial
>auctions you're not allowed to cart stuff off during the auction,

Over here It is normal  to be able to clear small items during the sale =
as soon as you've paid - the
usual criterion is that it's carryable.=20

>so it wastes all day, and you are often required to add on the
>auctioneer's fees in the form of a "buyer's premium". You also
>have to pay sales taxes unless you have appropriate exemptions
>as a wholesaler. And there are *inevitably* blithering idiots
>with large amounts of cash that will pay close to list price for
>some of the things you want.

Absolutely agree, but 'technical'  items like devtools buried in amongst =
run-of-the mill consumer
goods are often where the real bargains are, as no-one knows what they =
are. I've had bargains like a
=A3500 universal programmer for =A330 and a spectrum analyser + EMC LISN =
for =A350, but I've also seen
stuff go for over retail proce, and very often for over ebay prices. You =
just can't tell until the
day - that's half the fun!

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