Sealed Beams?

Cacti_Ken · Post by **Cacti_Ken** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:03 pm

Do you need a few sealed beams?
http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/v ... vertTo=USD

RICKG · Post by **RICKG** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:28 am

Qty aprox 1598/lot.. That'll put a little light on the subject!!

Cacti_Ken · Post by **Cacti_Ken** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:54 pm

I thought they were getting obsolete.

Post by **wesk** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:30 pm

Joe grunt on the street will never see one of those lamps until after he pays the vendor's markup.

Cacti_Ken · Post by **Cacti_Ken** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:41 pm

Oh yeah, I'm sure they will be marked up.

Post by **wesk** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:52 pm

I did a little net cruise. They are retailing right now on several sites for $35 to $55 dollars each. So using an average of $45 I see that the 1600 lamps can be resold by a vendor for $72,000.00. On average over the last 10 years uncle paid $15.95 a piece for these lamps. Now that's about $25,500 acquisition total cost for uncle and $72,000 current retail means it will be very interesting to see where the bid goes.

If you see about 10% of original uncle acquisition cost being garnered by GovLiq that means they'll go for $2500 to $3000 earning an enterprising vendor somewhere around $60,000 profit after considering all costs associated with their purchase, transportation, storage and handling.

Be prepared for some serious sticker shock January 3, 2012!!!!

RICKG · Post by **RICKG** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:52 am

wesk wrote:Be prepared for some serious sticker shock January 3, 2012!!!!

Thats bad news for me!! I finally got and installed my batteries
yesterday and proceeded to check my lights. Headlites on-good!!
Hi beam, Lo beam ..POOF!! left headilte bites the dust what the heck!!

I take a look and i forgot to connect the ground wire.

DOH!!