Big Green Egg at Burnside auction this Sunday

[Jimmy]

Not sure what this place is like, but I see they have a Big Green Egg going up for auction...might be able to score it at a decent price. My guess is it will go for close to retail, but it's worth a shot

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[NASH]

Or head over to Total Gas and Fireplace in Burnside anytime and grab a Jr or XL Oval Primo for insanely low prices I think they are getting out of them

[mr x]

Is that right? Prices, accessories?

[NASH]

Is that right? Prices, accessories?

They offered a friend a couple deals there a week or so ago. An XL all decked out in the heavy duty table with stainless shelves and all accessories for $1800, about $600 cheaper than another friend paid for the same thing 2 yrs ago from them. They offered him a Jr in the teak table with accessories for $1200, that's dirt cheap considering the tables are $500 or more. Then they called him back a few days later and said there was an XL display model somebody brought in to Moncton for a home show for $1200 with accessories and table, and that they could bring it to Hfx for him for $1200 all in, it never had a fire in it. He said it really sounded like they were getting out of them and clearing house.

He didn't try to beat them down, they just walked up to him and wined about how they can't sell them and started offering them up for $500 or so off which is exactly how I got mine so cheap in Moncton a few yrs back

[BenFrank]

Went to one of these auctions in New Glasgow with the EXACT same items...

Same furniture, over priced bedroom sets, reclining italian leather sofa's same cheesy plastic guns in shadow boxes, same lamo nascar and elvis memorbilia.

Me thinks this isn't so much a "liquidation" auction so much as it's a way to sell this hyped up merchanise at percieved deals to overly anxious auction attenders.

By product of the Storage War's TV craze...

Watch for buyers premiums and tax by the way, at 25% to every bid.

[jeffsmith]

^ This. We see the same auctions here in Amherst quite often.

[Jayme]

Watch for buyers premiums and tax by the way, at 25% to every bid.

So a $100 bid costs $125 or $125 AND + tax (aka $143.75)?!

[HPhunter]

Yuuuup been to a lot of auctions, and the buyers premium is a new way to make money. People bid with there penis/feelings and forget that with the fees and taxes it wasn't such a great deal, seen lots of people square off in bidding for say a bucket of hammers. Each Hammer is worth $40 buckets, 10 hammers in the bucket, sells for $275 bucks and they think they got a deal.( Actually seen this deep in the woods at an auction once) Really though how many hammers can one person need/use? buy a couple good ones on sale and your set. I've bought a lot of good stuff at auctions but they waste a lot of your time. Spending the whole day at them to find out somebody is willing to buy what you want at all costs sucks. But if you have the time and want an awesome bbq that would be the place to be for sure.

[BenFrank]

Watch for buyers premiums and tax by the way, at 25% to every bid.

So a $100 bid costs $125 or $125 AND + tax (aka $143.75)?!

The one I was at recently was 10% Buyer's premium plus tax on top of that.

$100 = $110 plus tax

Or $126.50

Another thing shady they'd do at this auction was sell pieces separate but as one item... 4 piece bedroom set for instance:

Bidding would fire up between two people, one guy would lose his head and bid really big.
Thinking he got the 4 piece set for a decent price (let's say $500 bucks) he'd be actually paying 4x$500... plus premium plus tax.

This particular auction is a scam, no doubt in my mind. Junk goods bought at 10 cents on the dollar for the sole purpose of auction...

I watched 3 people buy 3 flat screen TV's no box no manual for damn near full retail price, thinking they got a steal, I bet dollars to donuts those were display TV's in some furniture showroom and were turned on 12 hours a day months and months... not my idea of a good buy.