Sold! Holmdel Twp Auctions Off Lobby Furniture, Bikes

The huge workstation anchoring the lobby at Town Hall, once a receptionist's perch but more recently a place to lay out recycling flyers and bumper stickers, has been sold off by the township in an online auction for a winning bid of $100.  

"Several years ago the township employed receptionists who occupied the lobby desk," said township Interim Business Administrator Ray Wilson. "It will just return to being an open area after the furniture is removed." The winning bidder must remove the furniture by end of day Tuesday.

The hulking Amneon workstation was one of a handful of items included in an auction on USGovBid.com from June 18-22. Publicly advertised online auctions are held once or twice a year, at no particular set time, to allow the township to get rid of unwanted and surplus stuff.  In the past, the police department and Department of Public Works have used the online auctions to unload patrol cars  or old trucks and equipment. 

Most of the items in the June sale were the usual putty-colored office hutches and file cabinets, drawing ho-hum bids of around $25 to $50.  A  trio of bidders got in a little war, nudging the price of the Toshiba 20" TV/VCR/DVD Television from an opening bid of $25 , to final sale at $30. 

Nobody at all could be bothered with the Epson Scanner or Panasonic 20" television.

A bunch of bicycles, however, sparked some enthusiasm.  

Wilson said that the bike offerings --  a "lot of 20 bikes," a lone tricycle and a very cool orange Schwinn StingRay bike, were recovered by police in different ways. They were  "lost and found, abandoned and unclaimed," or "seized and unable to return to rightful owner."

There were 18 bids of the bike lot, and they eventually sold for $610. The little rusted trike inexplicably sold for $10. The well-used retro-looking orange StingRay, designed to look like a motorcycle without the engine with rivets in the upholstered seat and flame decals, sold for $111.

To see the winning bids, visit the USGovBid.com webpage.