What price presses and printers? Nine dollars?

Graysonline had an Indigo (pre-HP takeover) E-Print 1000 digital press that started at auction unreserved – nine dollars in Grays parlance – and closed yesterday at a winning bid of $6,300. 35 new and reconditioned Fuji Xerox A4/A3 colour and mono printers with one-year warranties are also going under the online hammer as we go to air. They too started at $9.

Need a Heidelberg KORD for a spot of die-cutting? Nine dollars. How about a big machine for making plastic magnetic stripe cards? Nine dollars. A Xerox booklet maker that saddle stitches and folds A5 and A4 products? Nine bucks.

“Of course, it’s where an auction finishes that counts, “ says Graysonline’s printing specialist Andy McCourt, “but the nine dollar starts are genuine unreserved auction prices and the market determines what it is prepared to pay. Because all equipment can be inspected prior to final bidding, buyers can be 100 per cent satisfied as to the condition. A $9 item does not mean it is not working – all the Fuji Xerox printers carry one-year onsite or RTB warranties and are either new or reconditioned.”

“For example, Graysonline currently sells more Dell computers than anyone bar Dell itself – and they all start at $9. It engages serious bidders and creates a fun buying environment where the customer is in total control of his or her budget. We’re not ‘sudden death’ at auction close time; we have the traditional auctioneer’s ‘going once … going twice’ philosophy where if a bid comes in within 10 minutes of close time, the auction extends by 10 minutes and a further 10 minutes until there are no more bids except the winning one.”

Would McCourt auction a ten-colour long perfector for nine dollars? “I’d be happy to start it at nine,” he laughs, “but I’m pretty sure the bid increments would have to be a few hundred thousand.”

If you want to have a shot at the Fuji Xerox network printers, Kord, packaging or cardmaking gear, you’d better get online before 12pm tomorrow (Friday 30th) when the auction is scheduled to close. Click here to visit the auction