Equipment is varied, but will include about 6,000 items of older and some discontinued, though new, Apple hardware. Apple representatives told Newsbytes the auctioned equipment is mostly buy-backs, meaning Apple has bought it back from its dealers when it released a new version of the product in question. In addition, there is no minimum bid, but Ross-Dove does charge a 5 percent buyers premium which is added to the total bid. Claris, Apple's software subsidiary, will be on hand at the auctions offering new software to go with the purchases and Apple items such as t-shirts and hats with the Apple logo will be available as well. Other auctions include the AST auction, scheduled for December 11 in Menlo Park, California and a Hughes auction, on the calendar for December 1 in Pomona, California.
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