"cmorettz" wrote in message
ups.com...
What are the best and or the worst prices youve seen at auction?
outrageous prices? Auction fever? One second late?

Lets hear it.


How about an almost new McEngelvan 2 chamber heat treat furnace, 23KW, for
$50? Retail, when new, was $11,000. Thanks to the wisdom of our school
administrators, this one sold at a high school liquidation when they closed
down all the industrial arts programs. Bidding opened @ $100. No one bid.
Auctioneer dropped to $50. I bid, but no one else did, not even the dealer
that had sold it originally. I had talked to him before the auction began
(at the auction, I didn't know he'd be there) and told him I was interested
in the furnace. He was going to buy it back for resale. He was the
perfect gentleman, not bidding against me.

Harold