Incredible bargains can be found at independent auction houses. Independent auction houses 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 principal Government sales outlets for surplus property. As items become available for public sale, catalogs and other types of announcements are distributed to people who have expressed an interest in bidding on the types of property being offered.
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. 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 the numbers continue to grow. Incredibly, the government isn't like a private business that is interested in making a profit on items it sells. The government is mostly interested in eliminating the enormous stockpiles of seized and surplus vehicles and other properties.