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I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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post #77

US Gov auctions are great when you want 400 of something broken or want to travel through 3 states for a $1000 mil-spec kitchen sink.

If you ever want knives, you can get a fascinating set of them by looking out for the TSA/Airport confiscated items auctions. Hawaii's one is at https://auctions.ehawaii.gov/dot/welcome.html . I had a boss when I lived in Hawaii that would bid on them, occasionally brought boxes of the random "sharps" (as they were called at the time) that had been confiscated from people by TSA. Some of it is somewhat surprising tha…

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Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Browsing is just one part, each jurisdiction and agency within each jurisdiction has its own process to even be able to join the auction Sometimes requiring months in advance So I want an agent that does that automatically and I don’t want to do it on my computer

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Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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post #6

Clone of "GovAuctions" from 3 weeks ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

Hadn't come across govauctions.app before today. Idea came out of a weekly idea bot I run; turns out the same gap was obvious enough that two of us built for it within a few weeks. Well done player_piano!

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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I chose 'Colorado' from the state dropdown and got a blank page. Does the site work at all?

Sorry about that. State pages were doing live aggregates per request and the HN spike killed them. Pre-rendered overnight; Colorado loads instantly now.

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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post #87
post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the top reasons auction hunters hate gun control The worst ones will try to add a few extra holes the night before the auction

You're probably kidding but I wouldn't put it past someone. Unscrupulous people bring antifreeze in gatorade bottles to the car auction and dump it under cars they want. Be careful out there.

Oh sheeesh!

By the way I had to spend at least a second trying to figure out whether that antifreeze was somehow going to offgas and damage the vehicle undercarriage :)

But it’s just straightforward dishonest fake leak. Scoundrels!

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