From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 17:23:19 PST
This is how the State of NY does it.
Tell me there is ANY reason the DRMS couldn't do it
this way, too.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZnyssurplusQ2dalbany
Joe
--- m35products <m35prod@optonline.net> wrote:
> Of course they are bidding the prices up. One would
> have to be a complete
> idiot to think otherwise. They are criminals, just
> like some other
> departments of our extended government. (Would you
> buy a used truck from the
> IRS or the INS?)
>
> What the feds ought to do is hire GL to put the
> stuff on Ebay, with no
> reserve, and see what happens. In that way, there
> would be (relatively) open
> disclosure of the bidding process.
>
> As far as the recent comments about who is buying at
> inflated prices, etc,
> the answer is: there are many people out there who
> still are thinking in the
> "$50 Jeep" mind set. They do not have the benefit of
> this forum, and are
> probably ignorant of the vast wealth of info in the
> magazines to which we
> all subscribe.
>
> A Google search for "military surplus trucks" yields
> 160,000 websites.
> Military Vehicles Magazine is not on the first three
> pages of hits. Nor is
> the MVPA. The GL is mentioned as the fourth hit on
> the first page.
>
> It's a case of marketing, and selling to rubes, that
> is the reason for GL's
> success.
>
> APB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JEFF HAIN-MATSON" <flmv@flmv.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] No bargains at auctions like G/L's
> - I don't get it...
>
>
> >
> >
> > MV wrote:
> >
> > > There are some things going on in this GL market
> that I really don't
> > > understand.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Can GL bid up their own auctions???
> >
> > Well you have just hit a very interesting point.
> They (GL) claim they
> don't do
> > this....... But since they have always refused to
> make bidder info public,
> (DRMS
> > had no problems making bidder info public, and
> anybody who bid knew that
> the info
> > was public, and as a "partner" of the Government
> you would think that the
> freedom
> > if information act would help, but it doesn't) one
> can only imagine that
> they do
> > in fact "run up" items they sell. At least at a
> live auction you can see
> the shill
> > bidders!! GL can claim they don't electronically
> shill bid till they are
> blue in
> > the face, but since they will never make bidder
> info public they will
> never be
> > able to prove that they don't do it. One can only
> hope they loose the
> contract in
> > a few years, but since congress didn't want to
> hear about it when lots of
> us
> > complained originally I doubt it will change in
> the future.
> >
> >
> >
> > > I haven't read their fine print
> > > sufficiently to know whether that is possible or
> not according to their
> > > terms. Something simply doesn't smell right.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > JEFF HAIN-MATSON
> > FRONT LINE MILITARY VEHICLES WEB SITE:
> http://www.flmv.net/
> > WRIGHTSVILLE PA
> > 717-252-4489 VOICE
> > 717-252-4499 FAX
> > flmv@flmv.net E-MAIL
> > MVPA #1833
> > IMPS #1726
> > MVT #9362
> >
> >
> >
> >
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