How unwanted is the crap you get from GL?

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?

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.

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.

Nice small parts bins.

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.

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.

What do you mean no pics?

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

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.

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.

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.