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**Curt Palme** · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:49 pm Post subject: Friggin' Govliquidation!

With a bit of trepidation, I bought one of those Barco flight simulator CRT projectors from GovLiquidation. Surprisingly, someone else was bidding on them, but I figured if they were useless, at least I could use the chassis to test boards in.

Paid $175 for one of them, plus about $350 shipping.

Got the unit in decent looking condition.. save for when I looked into the Manikin lenses. Some Ahole had removed all the tubes, yokes, etc. Including all the mounting hardware.

Piss me off! Thumbs Down

Probably a waste of money. Anyone need a 325lb boatanchor?

wallace123456 · Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 2236 Location: Northwest VA area

Sounds familiar, like I bought 3 1272's and all of them same condition, no tubes.

wallace

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 8:49 pm Post subject:

Yeah, not the end of the world. I wonder if the guy that bid on the other 5 got the same deal as I did.

Tim in Phoenix · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 4409 Location: Phoenix

Har!

GovLiq world headquarters is here in Scottsdale, above a shoe store.......no really! And staffed by idiots. I complained last month about an auction where the description bore no resemblance to the photos. Their reply was......go visit the warehouse and inspect if I want to. Yeah, I'm going to fly to Ohio to confirm they goofed........

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

Curt, is there any good reason the remove the tubes? Sounds abit crazy!!

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:49 pm Post subject:

Case, Gov Liquidation stuff is the stuff that gov't facilities no longer use. No one knows the story behind the stuff sold there.Some of it is new in the box, some is scrap and some is crap. The auction is only as good as the word of the person describing it.
I'm sure these sets were probably spares, or spare parts units, or maybe this particular one had the tubes taken out for another set that's still in service. Who knows? It looks like the mounting hardware and heck, even the PC boards are different than anything I've ever seen before. That, I more or less expected, but really was expecting a complete set.

I do remember way back when, someone called me looking for marquee 9000 parts. This must have been 2000 or 2001, when Marquee 9000s were a pie in the sky. This poor guy had paid $5K for a Marquee 9000 from Gov Liquidation, and when he got it, it had been completely stripped of modules! Of course, none of the pix on the auction showed that, nor did the auction state it. I felt really bad for the guy.

Not a big deal on my part, I have emailed out to my flight simulator customers to see if they know of any systems still in service using these. Worst case, I threw away $550. That's the thrill of dealing in surplus electronics. Very Happy

larryp · Joined: 24 Jan 2012 Posts: 252 Location: eden prairie mn

Typical gov't. Pay in, get nothing in return

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

Most of the guys running these sites don't really know what they have. Some guys take a lot of pics and give a good description while others well...... I did educate one guy at the Jax site. After that, he started taking better pics and more info. Unfortunately, they didn't get very many pjs in after that.

As has been stated before if it wasn't for the gov then a lot of us wouldn't have been able to get into this hobby.

digitalayon · Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Posts: 921

I told them to do that!