Bidders Go Big

At Compact Equipment, we know that today’s pre-owned machine business is booming, and that a large part of those sales comes from equipment auctions. But the numbers that Big Iron put up during its unreserved online auction on June 23rd are still staggering.

The event hosted bidders from 31 different states and four different countries. In the three days prior to the auction closing, the Web site had 440,868 views. There have been nearly 1.1 million views by potential bidders in the month of June that were looking at 696 items now sold to the highest bidders.

Big Iron is now starting to gain international attention. In fact, the second highest bidder on a 2008 Claas 900 Forage Harvester was from Israel. Other auction items included a John Deere 9500 combine with 1383 separator hours that sold for $62,000.00, as well as over 130 tractors.

Auctions are held on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month, which sets the next sale date on tomorrow — July 14, 2010. That auction will feature 436 items including late model 8420, 8320, and 8400 John Deere tractors plus a Ford MX-150 loader tractor and a 5240 International tractor. If you have extra equipment sitting around on your jobsites, you can call 800.937.3558 to schedule a time for a Territory Manager to come to your location.