Sounds like things are going to work out. Good!
- A moving company has picked up the items from the first round. A bit pricey, but it's still a good deal on the stuff for the company. Given their minimum fees and such, it might not have made a difference anyway, furniture or not.
- A list of leftovers was sent out afterward. (Including
five offices' worth of furniture - no one bought them during the regular auction, even for $1 each.)
There were some things of mild interest to us, but nothing my department manager deemed worth bothering with.
However, I had a distinct hunch that a few of the items would be very useful a year from now, and if I could get them for dirt-cheap....sure, hell with it, I'll take the chance and go for it anyway.
So, I called to investigate a little further.
- One thing led to another, and I ended up learning about another item that was available. It was an item that we'd wanted from the start, but never got approval to bid. An item that was the main reason we originally registered to bid, though we ended up missing out due to other....issues. But it's an item of considerable value to us, and available at a lower price than the starting bid, and without any additional fees since they just wanted it out of the building. The original (and only) bidder never paid for it so it was up for grabs before the building is unceremoniously emptied so that it can also be sold.
Still sight-unseen, yes, but based on additional information learned about the rest of the equipment, this machine should be in damn fine condition. It may have even been calibrated regularly. There were "maintenance-performed" stickers visible in the photos of it, and the keyboard, mouse, and keypads look like they've hardly been touched. It's roughly 15% of the cost of what a comparable factory refurb would be. The accessories alone are easily worth the total price we paid.
Yay me.