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- <text id=90TT2769>
- <title>
- Oct. 22, 1990: Business Notes:Auctions
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 22, 1990 The New Jazz Age
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 56
- Business Notes
- AUCTIONS
- What Am I Bid For the Slick?
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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