Buying Your Next Car At The Auto Auction
By Dave Kettner

Everyone loves to save money especially when buying a car so that means that the government auto auctions of seized vehicles is always popular wherever they are held.  At the auto auctions you can always find a great deal on a quality vehicle that was seized in a government raid or somehow came into the possession of the federal government.  Most people prefer to go to the auto auctions to place their bids but the sites for the auto auctions are scattered all over the country so sometimes logistics do not allow for the people that want to be at an auto to actually be there.  That is why the government allows options such as Internet access to bidding or even the option of mailing your sealed bid for a vehicle in to the in the hopes that your bid will win.

These government auctions are a little different than the standard bank auctions because the government auctions are for seized vehicles that could have some cosmetic damage to them.  The government is trying to get rid of the vehicles so that they do not take up any space in a government parking facility and so that they do not begin to require any upkeep by the government.  All the government is trying to do is make a few dollars from the property they seized and then make sure that property finds

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its way to its new owners.  In this way the government auto may be a better option than the bank option because, unlike the bank, the government will take any bid they can get.

It’s Not All Bad Guys

A lot of the vehicles sold in a government auto are vehicles that the government has used for years and now wants to get rid of to make way for new vehicles coming in.  Since the United States government is not always the best at watching their spending budget it is not inconceivable that you could be bidding on a recent model pick up truck and get it for pennies on the dollar.  The government uses a variety of civilian vehicles and when the time comes to replace those vehicles they will put the used ones up for rather than set up any type of reselling network to maximize their profits.  You can take advantage of this and get yourself a fine used car from the federal government for a rock bottom price.

Sometimes the government even offers military vehicles at their auto auctions but don’t think you will be getting a fully armed tank because you won’t. Many of the combat vehicles are either kept or sold through other channels but sometimes the government will offer jeeps and other lower end vehicles for the general public to bid on.

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