{"id":1151,"date":"2006-01-29T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/move-over-ebay-this-is-the-police\/"},"modified":"2016-01-11T12:23:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T05:23:41","slug":"move-over-ebay-this-is-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/move-over-ebay-this-is-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Move over eBay – this is the police"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIf you want an auction where the bargains really are a steal, you’re in luck. In fact, it’s astonishing what goes under the hammer. Patrick Collinson reportsGet amazing bargains on property, cars, computers … buy top-quality stolen bikes for \u00a310 at official police auctions … discover the secrets of government auctions … fantastic prices on army surplus … ridiculously low clearance prices from government departments.These claims are plastered over internet adverts. But do these secret stashes of bargain goods really exist? Is there a sort of parallel eBay known only to a select few? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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If you want an auction where the bargains really are a steal, you’re in luck....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-iz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19340,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-this-a-secret-ebay-with-great-deals-or-just-pye-in-the-sky\/","url_meta":{"origin":1151,"position":0},"title":"Is this a \u2018secret eBay\u2019 with great deals, or just Pye in the sky?","date":"July 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The johnpye.co.uk site offers stock from bust retailers and returns from John Lewis. 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