I went to one of the state auctions about three months ago. The upper echelon computers were pentium 90 and 100's. Mostly Gateways. A lot of old IBM dual floppy's were in the lot too. The computers were packaged four to a pallet. You couldn't just buy one machine. Also, there was a guy there from Ponchatoula who bought most of the stuff and he said that between the four you usally can get one or two together working. The pallets were going for $250-300. On top of that the auctioneer gets a markup of about 10%.
I thought about buying stuff over there a few times but just seeing that stuff made me think I was going to waste money. You can usually find a working pentium in the classifieds for $150-200. For not much more you can get a new machine at wal-mart or one of those emachines at bestbuy. If the state starts auctioning off pentium II's and higher then that might be the time to go to the auction. Until then, just a lot of junk to me. Also, you can go preview the stuff on Wed-Fri the week of the auction. Only certain times of the day, so check before you go. Just in case you don't want to ruin a Saturday. Just my $.02. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Bendily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] LA state auction selling loads of hardware I've been to that auction. It's not what you think. I've been there about 4 times. Usually the PC's at the auction are the total bottom of the barrel. Of the 100 or so that were there each time I went, the first think i looked for was a CD-rom. This was few and far between. Then you have to contend with the rest of the crowd who sells computers out of their houses. They have much higher budget than you will i'm sure. I think you'd be better off buying the $299 pc from walmart than spend $100 on something you can't use and you don't even know if it works. I haven't been to the auction in about a year so things could have changed drastically. I'd be interested in hearing your review afterwards. The process for items going to auction is this, First an agency (Like SLU) sends an item to surplus. Then they sell those items to any other state agency who might want them. So all other state agencys get a shot at anything that's worth a crap. Then what they don't get rid of there they send to the auction. I'm not tring to talk you out of it, but I just didn't want you to think that you would find this mass collection of really great pc's. Again, I haven't been in a long while, so I'm not sure of the quality or quantity of items they currently are auctioning. Bring a truck when you go, the auction starts at 8:00. Good luck. -- Brad Bendily - CNA On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, John Hebert wrote: > Heard a rumor that the LA CIO has ordered LA purchase > lots of new hardware, but the last purchase of > hardware just took place about 2 years ago, so the > possibility is that there will be a lot of really nice > equipment up for auction. > > Auctions are supposed to take place on the 2nd > Saturday of each month by the Memorial stadium. > Where's that? Anybody interested in going? I'm > thinking of going and looking for some good deals. > > John Hebert > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
