Sydney Trains Lost Property Auction

Astro551 on 06/12/2013 - 21:36

If anyone is interested Sydney Trains is having a lost property auction tomorrow at 9:30am.

Pickles Auctions Pty Ltd
21 Woorang Street, Milperra 2214
(Entry and Parking Via Nancy Ellis Leebold Drive)

Personally haven't been to one before but it's garnered a lot of interest on my facebook feed recently, would be curious if you can actually grab some good quality/cheap stuff.

More deets can be found here here.

Happy hunting!

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  • blazeninja on 06/12/2013 - 21:54
    +2

    How do you lose a PS3 on a train?

  • mini2 on 06/12/2013 - 22:25

    Have fun trying to find a parking near there - it was pretty bad during the salvaged vehicles auction, betcha it's worse for these kinda major events.

  • May4th on 06/12/2013 - 22:46

    it amuses me surfboards, furniture, plasma TVs and printers are among citirail lost property

    and no matter how many times they change their name it's not going to make shittyrail any less shitty

    • djones145 on 07/12/2013 - 15:01

      Sydney shitty glady's rail!

  • Moots on 06/12/2013 - 22:57

    I've been. There was literally a tinny boat, apparently found inside of a train? Anyway, go a bit later. They sell all the crap stuff, small stuff like hats, and whatever.

    Be warned, some of the iPods and stuff do go for near what you'd pay on Gumtree.

    • SydStrand on 06/12/2013 - 23:34
      +2

      How does one lose a boat on a train?

      • Moots on 06/12/2013 - 23:43

        I'm assuming some young lads would have picked it up from somewhere after a night out and thought it was pretty hilarious.

      • nickj on 07/12/2013 - 11:36
        +1

        And how do people lose safes and filling cabinets?

        • tonka on 07/12/2013 - 14:57
          +7

          How do you lose your wheelchair?

  • DEvok on 07/12/2013 - 00:07

    Yeah and if those phones are on contract and you made a bid your screwed with a locked phone or if its barred. City rail does not even let you inspect the items, to much of a gamble.

  • Agret on 07/12/2013 - 01:59
    +1

    The majority of iPods/iPhones/Android Phones/Windows Phones would be linked to an iTunes/Apple/Google/Microsoft account, they could email the owners and inform them that they have located their lost property instead of being dicks and selling them off.

    • twig on 08/12/2013 - 18:07

      locked screens?

  • eatwell365 on 07/12/2013 - 02:14
    +1

    Peeping Tom has left behind few binoculars in the train.

  • fickre on 07/12/2013 - 07:10
    +1

    This is the Complete listing of items being sold.

  • Aceboy884 on 07/12/2013 - 09:17

    Holy cow, how many phones are lost

    • jimbobaus on 07/12/2013 - 09:21

      My thoughts exactly!

  • northryder on 07/12/2013 - 10:09

    what happens if items were not sold, not exactly possible as there will be these gumtree and other such punters who will be buying and reselling, but yet…???

  • ahly92 on 07/12/2013 - 19:37
    +1

    if any one has spare change…might as well head to this pickles car auction…might grab yourself a bargain
    http://www.pickles.com.au/cars/item/search/-/listing/listSal…

    that audi r8 will go cheap….. how about that Bentley?

  • pana on 08/12/2013 - 14:37
    +2

    I went to airport lost property auction last month at that venue.

    Prices are crazy high…. madness….

    There were about 15 macbook pros, every single one sold above RRP. Some sold 40% above RRP

    • Tycn on 08/12/2013 - 17:36
      +2

      Maybe they're hoping to find someone's home adult movie collection?

    • kronicmacstigator on 08/12/2013 - 19:08

      Most people at auction are stupid and get 'lost' in the moment

  • angelkulit025 on 08/12/2013 - 17:48

    is there any auction of the same kind in Melbourne?

  • blighst on 08/12/2013 - 22:27
    +1

    Left my 10 cans of spray paint on the train as well as a few markers. Reckon I can buy em back ;)

  • DEvok on 09/12/2013 - 07:41

    Auctioning lost things are wrong, the owners must be very upset. Could have located th easily, with the information on the iphone itself.

    • Forfiet on 09/12/2013 - 07:45
      +1

      hopefully they have insurance and get their carrier to ban the phone. I mean no hate to the potential buyer, but the they obviously make no effort in returning these goods(phones I generally mean)…..
      P.S Its still in the owners best interest to take care of their goods, but accidents happen….

      • Brick50 on 09/12/2013 - 09:09

        Why hopefully? I'm guessing that if the owner of the phone went to the lost property they could most likely get it back there.

        • Forfiet on 09/12/2013 - 11:01

          some people can't remember the last place they had their items…

  • onlyletters on 09/12/2013 - 08:44
    +2

    What is the cheapest way to get rid of your non-working electrical goods? Leave it on the train on the way to work.

    Then some poor bastard will buy it and then realise that it doesn't actually work.

  • DEvok on 09/12/2013 - 08:45
    +2

    I bet you they weren't even handed to the police. The police has a system to find out the owner of the phones number.

    • Brick50 on 09/12/2013 - 09:11

      Once they hand the phones into police they don't get them back, If the owner of the phone doesn't go to the station the phones eventually get destroyed.

      You used to be able to keep them if no one claimed them but now they have 'private information' on them and have to be destroyed

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