Incredible bargains can be found at independent auction houses. Independent auction house sales take place throughout the U.S.A., many on a weekly schedule. A wide variety of personal property either no longer needed, or seized by the Federal Government is periodically placed on public sale. The Department of Defense and the General Services Administration are the principle government sales outlets for surplus property. As items become available for public sale.
Sales generally are on a competitive bid basis, with the property being sold to the highest bidder.
Among the many thousands of items sold are automobiles and other vehicles of every imaginable make and model. In fact, tens of thousands of vehicles are sold by the government at public auctions throughout the country every year. Because the government is so huge that it's difficult to even comprehend just how much property is amassed for resale. In fact, the government seizes, confiscates and forecloses on property that results in many millions of pieces of property every year, and that number continues to grow. Incredibly, the government isn't a private business that is interested in making a profit on the items it sells.