pdp 11s to be auctioned at Goddard

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Thu Mar 22 02:07:07 2001

It was thus said that the Great Bill Sudbrink once stated:
>
> > I've been to several of these. While otherwise wonderful, these
> > auctions have classic "government auction" problems. You'll see, for
> > example, a lot consisting of three pallets of stuff...one will contain
> > a Dynabyte or something like that with ZERO cash value but that you'd
> > really love to get, and the rest of it will consist of 2.5 pallets of
> > dead VGA monitors. During the auction you'll find some guy who bids
> > the lot up to $3,000. Wondering why, you watch him loading it into
> > his truck at the end of the day...and underneath the dead VGA monitors
> > will be one HP 8566B spectrum analyzer or something like that, that he
> > will have ALREADY SOLD on his cell phone for $20,000.
>
> In your expirence, and using the above example, could you approach the guy
> and make an offer for the Dynabyte or will he get pissy or greedy?

  In my experience (auction at a university, lost some cool HPs and monitors
to a pair of guys like this) they'll probabably say no right there, call us
back later once we've had time to inventory the stuff (and the cynical side
of me would like to add: and set a price to gouge you since you've actually
shown an interest).

  -spc (Never could get a hold of them ... )
Received on Thu Mar 22 2001 - 02:07:07 GMT