Final Day of Fire Sale of unused C19 equipment in New York City! Previous sales of all kinds of protective gear and equipment sold for less than half a cent on the purchased dollar cost!!

From here:

Public Surplus: Surplus Auctions for New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services

Not counting the 5 dollar bid for a three legged pedestal, there are a host of items that are going for less than pennies on the original purchase dollar price.

Better hurry though, the auction expires today, 28 February 2023, unless extended!

Amazing how fear and panic contribute to very poor decision-making, right?

Here’s a snap shot of some of the items on offer, expiring 7 pm tonight EST:

Take the latest $1,000 price with zero bids, so far, for Face Shields for example, when you click on the link, you get this:

1.5 million face shields with no bids and a reserve (so far) of $1,000!!!! Imagine the kind of movie you could make on the cheap with a title called “Attack of the Sheep” all wearing these! The movie “Ghandi” only had 300,000 extras!

Or how about around 1,000 “Isolation Gowns” with a latest bid of $280 bucks here? 28 cents each!!!

Public Surplus: Auction #3212147

How on earth can this be happening? Well here is the back story:

NYC Agency Notes Not All COVID Gear Was Sold for Pennies — $99M Worth Is Being Tossed Out - THE CITY

Covered by Fox5NY here:

NYC sells $200M of COVID supplies for only $500K (fox5ny.com)

Any link between the original sellers of the gear, or those buying at less than a cent in the dollar and those working in the procurement departments of NYC is purely coincidental.

All auctioned items must be picked up from the city.

Hey, maybe the Red Cross, Oxfam, WHO, UNESCO or any of the host of foreign countries health procurement bodies might be interested, though I doubt they even know this auction is happening.

Onwards!

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