Why Pay Retail or Even Wholesale When You Could Pay Police Auction Prices?

Search all Police Auctions, Government Auctions, Bailiff & Court Disposal Auctions right across the UK. We list a huge range of Police, Government, Bailiff & Court Disposal products coming up at auction in an easy to use, save and compare database. Bid at auctions and get up to 80% off the high street prices. There are literally thousands of auctions selling just about anything you could imagine at often breathtakingly low prices. - including Police, Government, Bailiff & Court Disposal auctions.We'll Show You Exactly How to Get up to 95% Off Just About Anything!Save money. Make money. Boost your standard of living. The choice is yours thanks to Police, Government, Bailiff & Court Disposal auctionsLOOK AT THESE PRICES!(Sample auction bargains. Since 30.9.04)Brand new, black Samsonite case with wheels. £2. Company receiver sale. Cardiff. RRP £75. Saving £73.AEG ceramic hob. £5. Brand new and still in box but two year old model. Four rings. In lost property auction London. RRP for latest model £299. Saving £294.BT cordless telephone incorporating digital answering. 50 pence. Brand new. Boxed. Police lost property sale. London. RRP £79. Saving £78.50p.Mountain bike. £4. Cannondale F400 bike in fair condition but missing chain. General auction in Sussex. Repairs cost £34. Cost when new £600. Saving £596.Yardley pool table complete with cues and light. £236. In perfect condition probably about five years old. General auction. Glasgow. RRP £685. Saving £449.Palm Zire PDA Organiser. Brand new. In box. £1. Latest electronic personal organiser. Lost property sale. London. RRP £89. Saving £88.Case of mixed red and white wine. £12. All originally purchased from Marks & Spencer. General auction. Cornwall. Retail price £72. Saving £60.iPod Photo, headphones and Altec Lansing speaker system. £50. All under one year old. No paperwork or software. All in working condition and as new. Included re-charger for iPod and case. Lost property auction in London. RRP £378. Saving £328.1994 Renault 5. £35. Body and mechanics in good condition. Interior in very poor condition. Agricultural auction. Northumberland. Cost of replacing interior £230 including labour. Car sold privately for £499. Profit £234.Bouncy castle including pump. £47. Castle’s vinyl in need of repair and also very dirty. Pump working. General auction. Devon. Repair and cleaning costs £90. Now hired out to parties and fetes for £75 a day. First year gross profit £838.Could this be the business opportunity you have been searching for?One of our readers, explains what is involved in being an auction dealer.‘If you are interested in earning an extra income – or perhaps in starting your own business – then buying and selling at auction could be the opportunity you have been looking for.What makes it particularly attractive is that you don’t necessarily need a substantial amount of capital to get started.What you do need is the time to invest in attending auctions; an idea of what the ‘real’ value is of the things being sold; and the ingenuity to sell-on whatever you buy.Let's deal with these three requirements in turn.First of all, how much money you will make as a dealer is linked directly to how much time you put in. I think the minimum requirement is probably a day a month divided between research, attending a single auction, and selling on anything you decide to buy. Thanks to gauk Police Auctions much of the background work is done for you. For instance, you won’t have to waste time looking for otherwise unpublicised auctions. But you still have to make the effort to turn up before the sales to look at the lots and to sit it out until anything you are interested in comes up. I’m doing this full-time, of course, so I probably attend about six or seven auctions a month.Knowing value is the next important thing. If you have specialist knowledge then it makes sense to use it. For instance, if you know a bit about cars then why not deal in cars? If you don’t have any particular expertise then you should concentrate on buying things that you are 100% certain are being sold below market value. Believe me, this is not rocket science providing you stick to what I call ‘the bleeding obvious’. My secret is to keep a lot of reference books in my car and also I sometimes nip into an internet café before a sale and check out prices on the web. I’ve also been known to telephone shops to price things if I am in doubt.Once you’ve successfully bid for your bargain or bargains you’ll want to sell it on. Personally, I am happy to take a smaller profit margin in exchange for fast turnover. How you sell something will depend on what it is. I don’t specialise in any one area so I use a variety of methods – other auctions, eBay, classified advertisements, other dealers, and direct to other retailers. Sometimes I sell direct to the public. For instance, when I first started I used to buy umbrellas from police lost property auctions for about 50 pence each and sell them wherever there was a crowd on a rainy day. I could shift a hundred umbrellas in an hour of heavy rain and make £250 profit. Some auction dealers I know only sell on to other trade buyers and build up contacts who they know will be interested in particular items.There are all sorts of dealers in the auction game. At one end of the scale there are the real specialists who buy items that other dealers might not recognise at regional sales and sell on in posh London auction houses. At the other there are part-time dealers doing what I do on a smaller scale.One of the things I will say is that gauk Police Auctions is of incalculable value. No other publication provides the same detailed information on how to buy at auction and sell on at a profit. More than this we will also show you how to buy from other sources (such as wholesalers and importers) and to sell at auction at a very substantial margin. With gauk Police Auctions you will know where the auctions are, what you should buy from them, what you should avoid, what you should pay, how to sell on, and how to charge. You will also pick up invaluable tips on everything from reducing your tax liability on profits through to arranging transport and shipping. Buying at auction isn't one of those "get rich quick" schemes promoted by somewhat shady characters. Instead, it is a proven way to earn a second income - even a very high income by acting on information which would otherwise be hard to come by.Anyway, if you are looking for a way of making money then I would strongly advise you to at least take out a subscription to gauk Police Auctions... after all, it will cost you nothing.WHAT AUCTIONS ARE COVERED?gauk Police Auctions covers over 10,000 UK auctions each month from loads of categories. Whatever it is that you're interested in: antiques or land investment, vintage port or vans or cars, diamonds or bikes … gauk Police Auctions will steer you to the best bargains. Our coverage is national and all regions are included, from Lands End to John O'Groats as well as Northern Ireland and Eire. The key auction categories are detailed in the left column.POLICE AUCTIONSSales of confiscated and stolen & recovered or unclaimed personal possessions looking for a new home. Buy from the police cheaper than you could from the criminals! bicycles, household items, jewellery, business equipment and, of course, a great many car radios and mobile phones. Sales of the sequestrated stocks of companies in receivership. Creditors need paying! Stock and assets are auctioned off for whatever anyone is prepared to pay.Read some of our subscribers’ stories to see what you could be saving at auction‘A brand new bathroom for £120.’Joanne Lee, Wales‘Where else could you buy a brand new bath, sink, w.c., heated towel rails, bathroom cabinet and Amtico floor tiles for £120? The directors of a fashion company purchased all these items (in tasteful white) for a bathroom they planned to add to their offices and showroom but before they could get it installed, they went bust. I went to the auction held by the receivers hoping to pick up some clothes, but came away with a brand new bathroom instead. I reckon I saved well over £2,000 thanks to gauk Police Auctions.’‘I paid just £23,000 for an idylic cottage.’William Pride, East Anglia‘Getting a real property bargain at auction does mean work – but it is worth it. For two years I followed advice I had read in gauk Police Auctions and ordered up auction catalogues, visited likely properties and attended sales. Time and again the properties I was interested in went for about 20% - 30% below market value – which was still far more than I was willing to pay. But in January 2003 - at a commercial property auction - I was in the right place at the right time. No one else bid for this country cottage at I snapped it up for just £23,000 – a discount of about two thirds. I spent £20,000 on improvements and the property is now valued at around £150,000.’‘I equipped my entire office – including a computer and printer – for just £620.’Mike Roper, Hertfordshire‘Thanks to gauk Police Auctions I bought all my office furniture at auction. I purchased everything I needed – Apple computer, printer, desk, chair, filing cabinets, fax machine and several potted plants – for the grand total of £620. If I had bought it new I would have had to spend over £5,000. I’ve bought other things for my business at auction, too, including a van.’‘I’ve gone into the property rental business thanks to gauk Police Auctions.’Steve Brown, Kent‘Every month I scour gauk Police Auctions for details of forthcoming residential property sales. I am on the look out for just one thing: studio flats. I pick these up for between £10,000 and £40,000 using buy-to-let mortgages, spend a few hundred pounds decorating and furnishing them, and rent them out to students and DHS tenants at yields of up to 20%. I now own eleven such properties all thanks to the advice in gauk Police Auctions.’‘Last year I bought a Porche 911 for £5,200, a Mercedes 500SEL for £3,500 and a Range Rover for £7,800 – and I’ve sold them all on at a profit.’John Barnes, Sussex‘Last year I started to buy cars at auction, drive them for a few weeks and then sell them on privately. Oddly enough, I find the best bargains not at car auctions but at receiver and even farm sales – details of which I obtain from gauk Police Auctions. I don’t really know that much about cars but at the prices I pay if I make a mistake one day it won’t be the end of the world. I average about £1,000 profit per car and so far I have bought and sold eight of them! A lot of fun and £8,000 profit…not bad for a hobby!’IMPORTANT INFORMATION: WHY AUCTION PRICES ARE SO LOWThe primary object of an auction is to make a quick sale. The vendors don't want to wait weeks, months or possibly even years to dispose of their goods. Nor do they want to waste time while "tyre kickers" decide whether they are genuinely interested or not. So before anything is put into auction you can be certain that the person selling it is willing to take a lower price for it then they know it might otherwise fetch.There are, however, other reasons why auction prices are lower. Auctions are frequented almost entirely by dealers and are used as a clearing house by all sorts of individuals, businesses, and organisations for unwanted goods. This may be because the vendors want the money quickly or it may be because they want to get rid of whatever it is they are selling so that they don't have to worry about it anymore. In the case of government bodies what they are selling may be too old for their use (though perfectly good); surplus to requirements; or in some other way redundant. Indeed, government bodies are extremely wasteful and therefore inclined to dispose of things for even less than anyone else.As already explained prices can be further deflated where a "no-reserve" sale basis is established. This means that the auctioneer has been instructed to sell at any price. If very few people turn up at the auction (one reason why better bargains are to be had during the winter when the weather is bad or during the summer when people are on holiday) then the no-reserve sale prices may be ridiculously cheap.FREE TO SUBSCRIBERS THE gauk Police Auctions WEBSITEFull access to the gauk Police Auctions website is freely available to our subscribers. The site contains many excellent features including:Searchable database of traditional auctions – locate the sales of greatest interest to you by location, type of auction, types of item sold, and date. Includes auctioneer’s particulars, full details of sale, viewing details, catalogue details, items for sale, buyer’s/seller’s premiums and so forth.Searchable database of internet auctions – find the internet sales of greatest interest to you by main activity, location, or our own unique “auction rating”. Includes auctioneer’s website particulars, full details of sale, items for sale, buyer’s/seller’s commission, conditions and so forth.POLICE AUCTIONS! THE UK's BEST AUCTION SECRETWe have already explained the sort of bargains you can expect to pick up at a police auction. Typically the prices you pay at auction will be anything up to 70% sometimes 95% less than you would pay for the same item purchased via the shop. In addition to giving you details of all the best police auctions held each month throughout the UK (many of which are not advertised) we also provide you with detailed advice on buying stock by this method. Find out if gauk Police Auctions is for you...