Originally Posted by
TheRecycleGuy
well from what I've learned here people pay 2 to 5 dollars a pc... take into account my gas there and back 1.5 hrs each way,
While I agree with 2-5.00 a PC depending on what is in them, you have to be flexible. I am often willing to overpay for auction items if I'm already vested in the auction.
For example, if I won 20 computers at the price I thought was fair, I would actually be willing to go higher and cut my margin to leave with a full truck. If you were making 5.00 a computer on what you purchased, and had 20 computers, I most certainly would pay more even if it meant I would only be making 4.00 on the next 20 (or even 3.00 a unit for that matter). This certainly is a volume business, in for a penny, in for a pound. Once you make the drive, you are there, I'd be putting anything I could into the truck that was making me money.
Additionally, if there are 10 pallets you are interested in, I would be bidding EARLY. Sometimes people keep thinking after the first few pallets, it will get cheaper because everyone already purchased what they wanted. I have found that while this sometimes is true, more often than not there will be more of a bidding war for the last few pallets. People that waited don't want to leave empty handed, and the real deals went early because a lot of people want to wait and see what the next few pallets went for.
Don't be so ridged that you are leaving with NOTHING thinking that you should have paid 6.00 a computer and you would have been leaving with 3 pallets of computers instead of leaving with an empty truck.
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