The city of Baytown has joined the growing list of public agencies selling surplus goods through sales. Baytown's first such embark is under way through May 6.
You can prove it for yourself on the city Web site, Where one can find a link to Ren Bates Auctioneers, Corporation. The McKinney based company's site lists dozens of entities with auctions happening, Baytown including.
Baytown Purchasing Manager Drew Potts says an online auction is so much easier than the so last century model of rounding up all the surplus stuff in one spot and then corralling all the potential bidders to same position.
For their last public auction in March 2007, Potts says the city paid employees a lot of overtime to tote things from law enforcement department property room to the auction area.
He says the city got the idea for an online auction marketplace from the Goose Creek school district, Which has recently had several.
The online method is much more profitable than the old method, Clearly. Surely, With just eight tools sold, Potts says the city has made 30 percent of its entire exploit last year's auction of thousands of trinkets, From office chairs to police force cars.
The auction going on right now obtained with just 15 items, Consisting of two Rolex watches, Seven passenger cars and a 1994 John Deere backhoe. Potts, Who has fielded cell message or calls from would be buyers as far away as Pittsburg, Says he expects to do another auction in a few weeks and will keep going all year-round, Small volumes of at a time.The joys of an internet city auction
The city of Baytown has joined the growing list of public agencies selling surplus goods through sales. Baytown's first such embark is under way through May 6.
You can prove it for yourself on the city Web site, Where one can find a link to Ren Bates Auctioneers, Corporation. The McKinney based company's site lists dozens of entities with auctions happening, Baytown including.
Baytown Purchasing Manager Drew Potts says an online auction is so much easier than the so last century model of rounding up all the surplus stuff in one spot and then corralling all the potential bidders to same position.
For their last public auction in March 2007, Potts says the city paid employees a lot of overtime to tote things from law enforcement department property room to the auction area.
He says the city got the idea for an online auction marketplace from the Goose Creek school district, Which has recently had several.
The online method is much more profitable than the old method, Clearly. Surely, With just eight tools sold, Potts says the city has made 30 percent of its entire exploit last year's auction of thousands of trinkets, From office chairs to police force cars.
The auction going on right now obtained with just 15 items, Consisting of two Rolex watches, Seven passenger cars and a 1994 John Deere backhoe. Potts, Who has fielded cell message or calls from would be buyers as far away as Pittsburg, Says he expects to do another auction in a few weeks and will keep going all year-round, Small volumes of at a time.The joys of an internet city auction
The city of Baytown has joined the growing list of public agencies selling surplus goods through sales. Baytown's first such embark is under way through May 6.
You can prove it for yourself on the city Web site, Where one can find a link to Ren Bates Auctioneers, Corporation. The McKinney based company's site lists dozens of entities with auctions happening, Baytown including.
Baytown Purchasing Manager Drew Potts says an online auction is so much easier than the so last century model of rounding up all the surplus stuff in one spot and then corralling all the potential bidders to same position.
For their last public auction in March 2007, Potts says the city paid employees a lot of overtime to tote things from law enforcement department property room to the auction area.
He says the city got the idea for an online auction marketplace from the Goose Creek school district, Which has recently had several.
The online method is much more profitable than the old method, Clearly. Surely, With just eight tools sold, Potts says the city has made 30 percent of its entire exploit last year's auction of thousands of trinkets, From office chairs to police force cars.
The auction going on right now obtained with just 15 items, Consisting of two Rolex watches, Seven passenger cars and a 1994 John Deere backhoe. Potts, Who has fielded cell message or calls from would be buyers as far away as Pittsburg, Says he expects to do another auction in a few weeks and will keep going all year-round, Small volumes of at a time.
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