Montreal city monthly auction - July 2008.

The big red truck at 969 Louvain contains the auctioneer who sits at the top thingy on the second Wednesday of every month starting at 9 am. In this shot he's selling the higher end bikes, which go for around $80 on average.
The shittier bikes go for about $75 for a group of four or five. I bought 4 for $50. They need repair, but at least one looks pretty good. There are about 30 sheds full of various seized junk. The entire contents sell for anywhere between $5 to $800. One guy got a good looking deal, fridge stove and various other junk for $210, although you couldn't see clearly what exactly was in there.This one, with the fancy TV went for over $700. Some full of boxes were going for $400, an aging emaciated midriff-baring biker chick kept buying them as if she was expecting Honus Wagner rookie cards in the boxes rather than shitty Christmas decorations.



There were two sorts of cars. The pre-owned city cars and those which were seized. The city cars - former police cars and so forth -went for like $700 each. They were pretty old and rusty. You're allowed to put 25% down immediately and return with the rest of the cash within a few days. They start the cars, back them up and make them go forward, but otherwise there's no guarantees on their condition. The rest of the cars were the seized. They don't start them or allow you to pay partially. You've got to haul them out before 4 pm and not allowed doing repairs on site. You won't even known if they have a motor inside. This 2002 Pontiac Montana went for $1,700. The passenger seats behind the front row were missing and the electronic window controls on the driver side were gone, perhaps other stuff was fubar as well. I was tempted to bid on it anyway. I kicked myself.