Military Auctions Web Page

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bbtel.com>
Date: Tue Aug 11 01:55:03 1998

Larry Anderson wrote:

> Here is a web page that lists auctions of former U.S. military equipment
> (nothing *that* fancy, but there are CPUs, monitors, printers, copiers, etc in
> there.) Lists by lots as well as by areas.
>
> Here's the URL:
>
> http://www.drms.com/
>
> If anyone actually goes to one of these or wins a bid, let us know what you
> get and/or what it's like, ok?

Been to military auctions a lot when I was active duty, especially when they had
tons of stuff during the shutdown of Chanute AFB in Rantoul, IL near
Champaign-Urbana. Many times you have to buy a lot rather than individual items
and many times the bids are based on scrap value rather than actual resale value.
It used to be called DRMO, I guess they turned it into a commercial entity and had
to make it read as a service, hence the .COM address rather than the .MIL or .ORG
address. The last auction I went to at Ft. Knox here I bought a pallet full of
Alps 9 pin printers that had seen many hours but still worthwhile...I paid $50 for
the entire pallet and only one printer of 40 was non-working. I used it for spare
parts on the ones I cleaned/tested/repaired for resale. I donated 10 of them to a
church group here and the rest sold nearly overnight for $25 each. 99% are still
in heavy service in the offices, schools and homes around area. Only one has had
to be repaired since it was sold, for a gunked up printehead (I think I missed
that one).

Many auctions have a preview period so you can somewhat see what there is and the
condition. Other times they have the contents listed in the auction catalog and
you bid strictly on that. You also have a reasonable period of time to make
payment and oickup on many of these auctions.

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