I won several types of auctions like that, only problem is when you get the shipping quote!
How did it happen? Easy.
Typical stupid government employee.
Your government at work.
How in the hell is a trailer worth $62k to start with?
The article said — “Many of them peppered James Shearouse, the district’s director of maintenance, with questions on the cost of taking apart and moving the trailers. Last week, Shearouse explained that it costs $2,400 to split, move and store the modular classrooms. To move, reassemble and put one of the units on its base again costs $5,200.”
So, that’s approximately about $7,600 for nothing more than getting it out of there, along with the costs for the buyer to hold onto it for a while (”storage”), and then get a place to set it up, and place it on its base again (at the new location).
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Then on down in the article, it said — “Shearouse said he tried since the fall to find a buyer, asking neighboring districts and modular classroom manufacturers if they wanted the used classrooms. No one did.
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The board also revised to $25,000 its asking price for each of the remaining trailers.
There have been no takers.”
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Ummmm..., yeah, that’s what happens when you try to sell something that no one wants and you set the price too high. The $1 was probably all they could get for the unit, since the buyer has to put out $7,600 just to get it off the property, hold it for a while and then set it up at another place (not to say anything about “distance costs”, too).
PA School Board’s are notoriously inept and are total tools of the teacher’s unions.
OOPs!
http://www.zazzle.com/obama_oops_bumper_sticker-128969061044846558
http://www.cafepress.com/culdesack/6488722
Ridiculous. All they had to do was refund the money and cancel the transaction. Sure, they can get in trouble with ebay, but they can’t force them to actually sell it.
Those that can do, those that can’t teach.
School management is comprised of teachers!
They tried to get out of it?
ROFL.
Just don’t give it to the guy and refund his money. What’s ebay going to do, cancel your account? What’s the buyer going to do? Sue you? Bah. Someone wasn’t trying hard enough.
Have they checked for any “special relationship” between the supposedly inept employee and the buyer?
Is the supposedly inept employee still supposedly working for the district?
Wow Who was watching the Auction?
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LOL Nice going MORON. What will you be selling next — a school building or a BRIDGE?