The johnpye.co.uk site offers stock from bust retailers and returns from John Lewis. But do you really get a satisfactory deal?John Lewis dumps its returns and cessation-of-line stock there,often at rock-bottom prices. It’s where 3500 crates of brand original and ex-display mobile phones – all from the collapse of the Phones 4u chain – were sold off, with some handsets going for under £5. Cars seized by the DVLA and stolen goods recovered by the police – but where the owner can’t be traced – often cessation up there. Yet the John Pye Auctions website remains relatively unknown: is it a secret eBay where canny buyers can pick up genuine bargains, and the fag-cessation of retail,piled high with junk?Seven years ago, when Guardian Money first featured John Pye, or it was a single warehouse in Nottingham,handling bankrupt and liquidation stock and you had to turn up in person and bid. But the recession, and technology, and occupy been kind to the business. It is now Britain’s biggest firm of commercial auctioneers with 14 warehouses across the UK,including an 11-acre site in the West Midlands.Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com