{"id":19340,"date":"2015-07-18T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-this-a-secret-ebay-with-great-deals-or-just-pye-in-the-sky\/"},"modified":"2016-07-11T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T08:49:28","slug":"is-this-a-secret-ebay-with-great-deals-or-just-pye-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-this-a-secret-ebay-with-great-deals-or-just-pye-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this a \u2018secret eBay\u2019 with great deals, or just Pye in the sky?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe johnpye.co.uk site offers stock from bust retailers and returns from John Lewis. But do you really get a good deal?John Lewis dumps its returns and end-of-line stock there, often at rock-bottom prices. It\u2019s where 3,500 crates of brand new and ex-display mobile phones \u2013 all from the collapse of the Phones 4u chain \u2013 were sold off, with some handsets going for under \u00a35. Cars seized by the DVLA and stolen goods recovered by the police \u2013 but where the owner can\u2019t be traced \u2013 often end up there. Yet the John Pye Auctions website remains relatively unknown: is it a secret eBay where canny buyers can pick up real bargains, or the fag-end of retail, piled high with junk?Seven years ago, when Guardian Money first featured John Pye, it was a single warehouse in Nottingham, handling bankrupt and liquidation stock \u2013 and you had to turn up in person and bid. But the recession, and technology, have been kind to the business. It is now Britain\u2019s biggest firm of commercial auctioneers with 14 warehouses across the UK, including an 11-acre site in the West Midlands. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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