Since the DotCom explosion there has been this massive growth in Auction based websites. The big one of these of course is eBay, the name being a nice little play on words, who has easily the lion share of the market. The thing about eBay is they are a rather broad paintbrush in the scheme of things, meaning practically anything can be found on there to the point of the ridiculous and creepy, however much akin to the rest of the interweb sometimes it can be difficult to find what you are actually looking for. eBay also has had in the past some issues with forgeries, lies, cheats and bastards – sure, you can report them, but they already have your money right?

PoliceAuctions.com is sort of slick because, well, they do police auctions. What is that? When the police take goods from scumbags, thieves, and general criminals after a period of time they get to sell them. The site offers many different item categories, such as jewelry, collectibles and electronics, as well as being able to purchase cars and houses (for a monthly view fee). Very cool. My wife and I have been looking at jewelry and art on there which has amazing bank for the buck.

My uncle lives in San Pedro California where he knows a guy that buys governmental based items at auction and ships them all over the world. GovLiquidation.com is website where you can do exactly what that multimillionaire is doing – buy really wicked cool stuff from the government at a fraction of a percentage for what they paid for it – I am of course referring to the price of a hammer being $457 for the good old U S of A. I am a big fan of this bad boy – I love the idea of travelling about and think that a Winnebago is a hunk of crap.

BizarreBids.com is this site that specializes in the weird stuff that probably will no longer be sold on eBay due to fraud, creep, and odd categorical wipes. These guys have stuff on their site as well as link to stuff on the web that is weird as well. I like their Won page which highlights stuff that was apparently bid on and won. Note the guy with the gun shot destroyed face – someone bid to help put his life back in order – cool, I guess.

Last but certainly not least is a site that specializes in Military Equipment Auctions – MilitaryTrader.com. The difference between these guys and those fellows over at GovLiquidation.com is that MilitaryTrader sells only military stuff – you know like jeeps, humvees, tanks, ordinance etc. This is probably where the A-Team gets all their cool gear. The list of stuff sold back in 2008 is a bit alarming – lots of Nazi crap. I hope they have some Jets on there soon – I really want a MiG.