What to do with 104 decommissioned cellular routers
An agency retired its fleet of CradlePoint LTE gateways. We bought the lot. Here is the arithmetic on a bulk buy nobody else wanted.
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The pump the seller said was broken
A lot was discounted because a pump "does not stay powered on." We could not reproduce the fault. Here is why that happens more often than you think.
What kills a surplus lot before you even bid
Most surplus lots that look like bargains are traps. Here are the failure modes we have learned to spot from the listing photos alone.
We bought an atomic force microscope at a government auction
A Park Systems XE7 AFM came up on GovDeals listed as generic lab equipment. Here is why we bid on an instrument that cost more new than most cars.
How we decide what to bid on
Surplus auctions move faster than any person can read them. Here is how we filter thousands of lots down to the few worth bidding on, and where we stop.
What we are building at Strommen Systems
We buy government surplus and corporate liquidation lots, test and repair what is worth saving, and sell it direct. Here is the thesis behind the business.