How unwanted is the crap you get from GL?

[gimpyrobb]

I purchased a lot from GL just for one item. One of the other items that came with the cases had gone through 5 other auctions before they were able to unload it. How many re-listings has some of the items you got been through?

 

[Recovry4x4]

Will those fit my med boxes? Way cool. Back a few years ago I bid and won some TA/838 phones from DSCC. In the lot were several VCR players that were as big as a 20MM can and weighed close to 60#. These things came out of the first era VCRs. Unbelievable.

 

[poppop]

Gimpy, just think how much money you saved the taxpayers by hauling that off for the government. Does'nt that give you a warm fuzzy feeling. This happens at auctions I go to all the time. Throw some junk in with something good so someone else will have to haul it off. Most announce that you can't pick and leave the leftovers.

 

[steelandcanvas]

Nice small parts bins.

 

[Blood_of_Tyrants]

The trucks I just drove home last week had been auctioned once before. They just marked out the old event number with a magic marker and put a new one one.

 

[gimpyrobb]

Yeah, I even got a crappy busted push mower. I set it at the curb for trash night and it was gone in 2hrs. No pics of the mower, sorry.

 

[swbradley1]

What do you mean no pics?

That could have been a great mower with some TLC and you kicked it to the curb.

 

[GM72K10]

the truck bed I bought from GL came with 35 7 foot torsion bars that I wound up scrapping for more than I paid for the lot. Sometimes the junk they throw in is a good thing. The ambulance I bought from GSA was filled with cabinets and trash though, filled up my whole dumpster that week.

 

[Michael]

I have found that it is a pain to figer out what some of the stuff is good for. The military apparently has no good way to take a NSN number and look up its end use.

 

[emmado22]

They do, but sometimes it takes more time and effort than it is worth...


Torsion bars, when they go bad, get thrown out, not turned in.