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Pick Up A Piece of Enron

Posted by timothy on from the not-that-kind-of-piece dept.

shintaro points out this massive collection of "gear from Enron on auction. Amongst the more than 3,000 in this auction (1 of 10) are state and federal law books, and numerous notebooks sans hard drives. Might be a good opportunity to pick up a Sun Enterprise Server? Office furniture is also on offer, Herman Miller and Knolls all over, not an IKEA item in sight. Interesting what Enron employees and shareholders must feel looking at this loot."

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  1. Skip right to page by mobby_6kl · · Score: 5, Informative

    11 - VCR/TV
    13 - plasma displays (mostly with screen burn :/)
    15 - projectors, cameras, UPS
    16 - huge boxes full of keyboards, modems and other cards, CAT5,
    17/18 - Compaq deskotps, in groups of 20
    18 - Sat. phone, '96 Chevy truck
    19 - Pallets of plastic TRASH RECEPTACLES, sate and federal law books
    20 - IBM and Compaq PII and PIII laptops (NO HDD!)
    21 - IBM 600 and T21 laptops
    >22 - couches and other boring stuff
    25/27 - SUN and IBM servers
    27/28 - Compaq servers

    uhh sorry don't have time to go through all of this, maybe someone could continue. just one more random page: 50, Lucent digital phones, SUN servers and Cisco switches

    1. Re:Skip right to page by Jodka · · Score: 2, Informative

      You left out video wall.

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  2. Re:Enron Equipment by selderrr · · Score: 3, Informative

    auctions like these have a walk-in day where you can review all the material. The online brochure is to lure buyers who don't know what they are buying.

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  3. Re:$200 minimum bid for everything by intekra · · Score: 1, Informative

    Also note: even if your bid is $200, DoveBid will authorize $500 on your credit card.

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  4. Re:Ethics Handbook by The+Jonas · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wonder if they'd have the ethics training handbook available.

    They have been on sale on eBay for a while now.

  5. Re:Company Auctions by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

    to a point.

    Local company bankrupcy auctions can be a goldmine, espically if your area has less-than-savvy companies and citizens.

    A Local Machine shop went belly-up after they over expanded from the dot-bomb boom. they dies about 2 years ago and a year after they had an auction.

    Things like compressors were going for nuts prices, espically the executive laptops and office pc's.

    I picked up a toshiba toughbook for $10.00 and was the only bidder as nobody bidding knew what it was including the auctioner. "A briefcast test instrument object." I also picked up two SGI "fuel" CAD stations with 21 inch monitors and input tablets. They were auctioned as "special computers that dont run windows"

    I got them for $100.00 each. One was still in the boxes.

    if it's normal stuff, then the idiots will be bidding like crazy, if it's slightly wierd, it can be had for absolute dirt.

    and yes, I love my P-III 800 toughbook.

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