Take a look:
Direct Liquidation link to 10pcs offer.
Curious to see who is interested in such an offer? Are there people / companies out there that gamble that they can quickly repair such cameras and then resell them? Use them for parts?? What's the tactic here?
Hat tip Marty Major.
B and C stock auction. If I needed one and the starting bid was $1.00 I might consider. At $154.00 there is no way.
If I needed one and the starting bid was $1.00 I might consider
So if you 'needed' something that was not working? I am confused. When would you need something that does not 'work'? Or are you implying that you would take a shot at spending the time to fix it was $1?
What fascinates me is that Walmart 'performs a technical functionality and/or physical condition test' - and then stops there...if it doesn't work, it goes in the liquidation bin to be sold off in parcels.
i.e. this stuff isn't worth the time and $$ to troubleshoot/fix - they make more money selling it off in piles of broken stuff.
I wonder how many of these lots of dead surveillance equipment roll out of Bentonville ever year.
I also wonder who would buy this kind of stuff and why.
10 extremely realistic dummy cams for $15 a throw is not a bad deal, plus a hard-to-find dummy DVR.
Anything that works after that is gravy ;)
On second thought, though I think this is a total waste of time for a non-slammer integrator, I would say it's a fair deal for somebody with a modicum of electronic device savvyness and computer competence (as a user).
Why? Because these are kits, with multiple units, are all the cameras and DVR likely to be bad? Good chance only one device doesn't work, if it's the DVR sucks, but it's probably the power supply or the hard drive, in that order.
The bigger the kit, the better the odds.
Then there's the possibility that nothing is wrong with anything, and that an incompetent user screwed up the config and returned it, and the only slightly more compentent tester couldn't set it right.
My guess is that many of them are missing a power cable or a cable was cut or missing and accessory, but may be working besides that. I personally wouldn't waste $150 on this, but if it was much lower would possibly. You never know... The manufacturer warranty may still be in effect via serial number a d you could get them fixed or repaired just by spending some time...
If it was $25 or 50, sure I would spend some mad money. Anything truly trashed could go to a maker fair or school destruction derby so the kids can take a look at the insides of current tech vs the ancient dinosaurs I usually still have laying around.
I just noticed that right below the pic there is a 'Download Manifest' link that shows each item in an Excel spreadsheet. This is what you get in that lot:
I agree that what you suggest would be a good idea on the micro level - i.e. a specific lot could (and probably would) return some value.
But at the macro level, Walmart has almost 5000 stores in the US alone - so they must liquidate a metric assload of this cheap gear.... especially if they don't test anything beyond immediate functionality.
Quick Google search - same joint:
27 pcs - no bidders
17 pcs - no bidders
12 Pallets! (880 pcs) - 1 bidder ($10K+) reserve price not met
You could take the risk and assume that the tester didnt know what they were doing. My first business was "Nelly's Surplus", We used to buy and sell liquidation stuff from Amazon and Walmart.Com. This happened all the time, more stuff worked than not. Then we would go on fleabay and auction it off for a profit. Those were the days when ebay was still fun.
It's a bet against the IT-Knowhow of the selling guy. In most cases you have a good chance to make some profit ☺️
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