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Stories about Storage Auctions / Piece by Piece Auction....Late January, 2014
« on: January 31, 2014, 06:50:13 PM »
This auction held a lot of promise. There were 40 lockers scheduled...20 at auction time. Still a good number.
Auction started at 8:30 and I drove out the gate at 4:15....almost 8 hours of watching stuff come out in boxes or individual pieces. The first 15 or so lockers weren't great to say the least. Finally a few good lockers came up.
I paid $200 for 6 pieces and am hoping they'll turn into about $700 to $800.
Once the bulk of the stuff is gone they offer the aisles of leftover as a batch. Then if there is still stuff in the locker they offer it as a batch. A friend got the locker remains of one locker for $110 and IT PAID OFF.
He got 3 heavy boxes, one of which was labled reel/reel. I opened it for him and it had a beautiful Akai reel to reel recorder. There was a box of 10 Ampex metal 10" reels of tape which are also sellable. The other boxes contained black faced, rack-mountable Heathkit components. I had never seen anything like them. They were definitely more modern than any usual heathkit test equipment I've seen. Without looking them up I'd say he will sell all the pieces for around $700 or so; a good return on investment.
Here are some pics.
Auction started at 8:30 and I drove out the gate at 4:15....almost 8 hours of watching stuff come out in boxes or individual pieces. The first 15 or so lockers weren't great to say the least. Finally a few good lockers came up.
I paid $200 for 6 pieces and am hoping they'll turn into about $700 to $800.
Once the bulk of the stuff is gone they offer the aisles of leftover as a batch. Then if there is still stuff in the locker they offer it as a batch. A friend got the locker remains of one locker for $110 and IT PAID OFF.
He got 3 heavy boxes, one of which was labled reel/reel. I opened it for him and it had a beautiful Akai reel to reel recorder. There was a box of 10 Ampex metal 10" reels of tape which are also sellable. The other boxes contained black faced, rack-mountable Heathkit components. I had never seen anything like them. They were definitely more modern than any usual heathkit test equipment I've seen. Without looking them up I'd say he will sell all the pieces for around $700 or so; a good return on investment.
Here are some pics.
