Alabama’s massive online surplus property auction: Prison bus, Nerf guns, laptops up for grabs
From serious work to child’s play, a state agency has dozens of items for sale as part of an online surplus auction.
Bidding is underway and runs through 6 p.m. on Nov. 24 for everything from a prison bus to Nerf toys owned by the state that Alabama no longer needs.
Aside from acquiring industrial equipment and vehicles for state agencies, the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, whose Surplus Property Division is conducting the auction, takes possession of items abandoned at several airports in the southeast.
As of late Monday night, the highest bid was $4,550 for a lot of dozens of laptops, followed by a 2012 Ford F-450 SD ($4,050), $3,250 for a 2020 Southern Star pontoon boat with trailer and motor and $2,725 for a 2012 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD.
A 1999 Freightliner FS65 – 48 Passenger Bus labeled “Department of Corrections” is also up for sale with a high bid of $360 as of Monday night.
Also up for sale are a lot of eight vending machines, a golf cart, golf clubs, power tools, weights and assorted toys, including Nerf guns.
The full list of items can be viewed in the slideshow above or here.
To find out how to become a qualified bidder for the auction, visit here.
Public viewing and inspections of the inventory will be available at the Surplus Property Division’s Montgomery Distribution Center at 4590 Mobile Hwy. from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Friday.
ADECA holds online public auctions several times a year, but surplus items are available at any time to municipal and county governments, state agencies and qualified nonprofit organizations.
All items are sold as is without guarantees and all sales are final upon pickup and removal of the property.
For more information about the online auction, click here or call 334-284-0577.