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- BUSINESS, Page 56Business NotesAUCTIONSWhat Am I Bid For the Slick?
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- Everything about the Exxon Valdez oil spill was expensive,
- but last week it produced a few bargains. At an auction in
- Anchorage to sell off surplus equipment that Exxon used in
- cleanup operations, buyers bid on acres of items ranging from
- animal shampoo to mobile homes to microwave ovens. Four 18-ft.
- boats sold for $3,750. Other items were less than a steal: four
- used TV sets sold for a total of $2,000. Ritchie Bros.
- Auctioneers International, a Vancouver, B.C., firm that bought
- the surplus gear from Exxon, collected $3.8 million on the
- first day of the four-day auction. The oil company, which will
- send experts back to Prince William Sound next spring to
- continue the job, says it has plenty of equipment left to
- complete the cleanup.
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