[Noisebridge-discuss] 2169 Mission status

[Christie Dudley]

Oh, I had posted about there being an auction of school cafeteria
equipment in LA earlier in this thread.  Those were stainless pieces
that were going for $10/each and auctions closed with only 1 or 2 bids
on each.  I think a lot of the "salvage" places haven't gotten on
board with the online auction.  (Which of course is a natural for us.)

There are a lot of different ways you can pick this stuff up.  I tend
to glom onto "public" - i.e. government of some sort - auctions
because they have rules for selling it that are more favorable for
groups like us, such as length of time things are advertised, etc.

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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM, d p chang<weasel at meer.net> wrote:
> Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I suppose that'll do if we can't find something at auction
>> closer.
>
> closer?
>
>> I'll still keep an eye out for property disposal auctions and see what
>> we can get that way.  In most of these, you're bidding against the
>> scrap market and not people who are going to use them.
>
> i think you'd be bidding against these guys :-) from what i gather they
> (charyn auctions) go to demo/refit sites and buy all the 'junk' and try
> to flip it. i wouldn't have thought the profit/turn-over was that high,
> but looking at the stacks of stuff there has to be something in it or
> their warehousing costs are as close to zero as possible.
>
> (for 'locals' they do have a very nice/productive blackberry bush out
> back. no one seems to mind us walking back and picking our fill).
>
> \p
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