From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 19:33:17 PST
Wolf,
Are you saying that GL should only sell to dealers who know how to use the
GL website and tell everyone else they aren't allowed to buy from them?
When I was in the Army they did what it took to inform people on active duty
to come to property disposal sales and I have been doing it ever since.
What should I do, go to a dealer and pay roughly double and sometimes ten or
twenty times what I can buy it from the government for? Don't think so.
Sonny
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From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] No bargains at auctions like G/L's
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> Subject: Re: [MV] No bargains at auctions like G/L's
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>
>> Geez, there must be a surplus of money in this
>> country....you see the prices on "junk" at GL and GSA
>> auctions lately? It's un-reeeeeal. lol
>
> Ridiculous is the word. I've basically given up. GL has replaced the
> dealers and has itself become a retailer, so anyone hoping to buy
> wholesale
> and mark up goods a few dollars to earn a living can now essentially
> forget
> it. GL is selling that to the public as "buy stuff for what the dealers
> pay!", but the reality is that they're essentially saying, "Dealers! Try
> to
> make a living buying stuff at Retail just like you were John Q. Public!"
>
> There are a lot of dealers in this hobby who are very reputable, honest,
> and
> price things to make a living but don't rape the collectors. Having said
> that, there are an awful lot of outright usurious bastards who
> traditionally
> used their knowledge of the inner workings of the old DRMS system to buy
> stuff by the pound and sell it by the ounce. GL knew that, and set up
> Government Ebay so all the profits lining the pockets of the unscrupulous
> in
> the old days now line the pockets of GL. But you could argue the
> playing-field has become equal - provided that you don't have to earn a
> living.
>
>> I went to the last 3 big GSA car auctions in
>> Sacramento and never saw one good deal in over a 1500
>> vehicles, won't be going anymore. I saw these pro
>> buyers buying on a razor thin profit margin using
>> volumn to make it work and then there was the amature
>> individual buyers who always pay too much.
>
> There's a new crop of amateur buyers every sale - be it GSA or GL - so
> there
> will be no shortage of people bidding something up from the sublime to the
> ridiculous every, single, solitary sale. There can be no learning curve
> if
> it's different people each time, as the punters who bought the deuce with
> a
> blown differential, no radiator, and an engine tagged "Unserviceable - no
> compression on 5,6" for $3800.00 instead of spending the extra 800 bucks
> to
> get one off a dealer which had been checked won't come back to buy a
> second
> one. But his brother, uncle, aunt, friends at work and other associated
> acquaintances will.
>
>> Man...I've NEVER had worse experiences dealing with
>> anyone in 30 years of business. GL has the all time
>> worst attitude (at mgmt.level)
>
> In defense of GL, the guys at Ft. Lewis WA can't be beat. They're great
> to
> deal with. We've had the computer-generated snottygrams whenever we
> haven't picked up some $4 item within the 14 days or whatever, but we've
> (company I subcontract to) usually resolved it with a phone call or two.
> Form 97's - entirely different story - but so many hands are in that
> particular pot it's hard to assign blame.
>
>
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