Government and Police Auction Information

Attending police or government auctions can literally save you thousands of dollars. Knowing where to go, what they sell and how to bid can be hard, but luckily there are a few great websites around to help you out.

http://deaauctions.com

An excellent site, very comprehensive, and you can gain a lot of information before you even have to pay to join up.

www.propertyroom.com

A brilliant site, run in part by some ex-Police, selling items on behalf of Police and government departments. Registration is free, and you can bid on anything from demolition hammers to diamond earrings, coins to cameras.

www.stealitback.com

A service offered by propertyroom.com that is dedicated to matching property to its rightful owners. Just register your property's identification, and if it's around, you'll find out so it can be returned to you.

http://www.seizedpropertyauctions.com

Another site devoted to auctioning off property from government agencies and Police departments. They also auction property from liquidations, and deceased estates. Registration is free.

The most obvious resource for government auctions is www.usa.gov. You can search hundreds of sites for government department auctions. Just type in auction at the search function at the top of the home page, and you'll have pages of sites to search.

http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/gsaauctions/

The official government site for auctions, and is very comprehensive. Here you can bid on everything from combat boots to conveyer toasters. You must register to bid, and registration is free. They will ask for your credit card details, though, for verification purposes.

Buyer Beware!

There are a few websites out there that require you to pay in order to get the information they contain. In actual fact, if you are willing to sit for a while and research, you can find plenty of sites that give lists of auction sites. Furthermore, government sites offer the information for free anyway. It just takes some time - what's the point of a bargain from a Government or Police auction when you pay to find out about it?