What's it worth at government auction?
Type what it is. We check 266,000+ real sold lots and show what comparable ones went for, with the sales themselves so you can judge.
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How the estimate works
Every word you type has to be in the lot title, so "John Deere 310 backhoe" means a 310, not any John Deere. "F-150", "F150" and "F 150" count as the same truck, and "Chevy" finds "Chevrolet".
Add-ons are left out: a search for a skid steer skips the buckets, forks and mulchers sold for one, and a laptop search skips "lot of 15 laptops". Only real sales count: a final bid above zero, reserve met, and no listings where the price shown was just the opening bid.
You get the median and the middle half of prices, the number of sales and their dates, the latest comparable lots with links, and the share of lots that drew any bid. Pick a state to see local prices when there are at least five sales there.
Past auction results, sold as-is. Condition, location and pickup move prices a lot, and buyer's premium and transport come on top. Not an appraisal.
Price history by item
For a month-by-month chart and the state-by-state breakdown, see the item pages: Ford F-150, backhoe, skid steer, Dell Latitude, and every tracked item. Then work out your profit with the flip profit calculator.
Frequently asked questions
How do you work out what an item is worth?
We find closed government auction lots whose titles contain every word you typed, drop accessories and multi-unit lots, and keep only real sales: a final bid above zero, reserve met, and no asking prices passed off as sales. The typical price is the median of those sales, and the low and high are the 25th and 75th percentiles, so half of all sales fall between them.
Why is my item showing a wide range?
Because the sales really were spread out. A word like "backhoe" covers 1970s machines and two-year-old ones, running and not. Add a model, a size or a year and the range tightens. We flag any result where the high is more than four times the low.
What does the year do?
A year keeps sales of that model year plus or minus two. If fewer than five sales are that close, we widen to four years, and if that is still too few we show every year and say so.
What does sell-through mean here?
The share of closed lots that drew at least one bid. Only auction sites that publish a bid count for every lot are counted (HiBid, Purple Wave, GSA Auctions, Municibid and a few more), because a missing bid count is not the same as no bids.
Is this an appraisal?
No. It is what comparable lots actually sold for at public government auctions, sold as-is with buyer's premium on top. Retail and private-sale prices are usually higher. Use it to decide what to bid, or to sanity-check what your own item might fetch at auction.