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Surplus market report: week of September 28, 2026
September 28 - October 4, 2026. 21,275 U.S. government surplus lots finished bidding, +29% on the week before, at a median winning bid of $63. Of the lots whose outcome we re-checked after close, 80% sold.
Lots closed
21,275
+29%
Median winning bid
$63
all categories
Sell-through
80%
Total closing value
$20,437,362
Vehicles carried the week on volume with 3,403 lots closed at a median of $2,300, and it was also the most contested: a lot that drew bids drew a median of 28 of them.
Volume, median close and sell-through by category
| Category | Closed | Median | vs. prior week | Sell-through | Median bids |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicles | 3,403 | $2,300 | -12% | 97% | 28 |
| Electronics | 2,855 | $54 | -41% | 83.6% | 8 |
| Real Estate | 2,467 | $16,775 | -53% | — | 7 |
| Furniture | 2,059 | $10 | flat | 66.7% | 3 |
| Tools | 1,425 | $60 | -37% | 87.5% | 9 |
| Military | 890 | $50 | -56% | — | 4 |
| Equipment | 652 | $1,375 | +29% | 93.1% | 24 |
| Sporting | 589 | $10 | -82% | 65.2% | 6 |
| Jewelry | 454 | $50 | -74% | 78.2% | 14 |
| Medical | 368 | $50 | -11% | 76.7% | 5 |
| Appliances | 201 | $50 | -2% | 82.3% | 5 |
| Catering | 189 | $53 | -42% | 72.6% | 7 |
| Collectibles | 149 | $31 | -82% | 70.6% | 11 |
| Janitorial | 102 | $53 | -10% | 88.1% | 6 |
| Art & Decor | 40 | $16 | -77% | — | 4 |
Notable lots this week
Highest close of the week
Two Parcels in Spokane, Washington - Commercial Mixed UseClosed at $450,000 in WA. Real Estate.
Also notable
Apple - 5th Gen iPads (Lot of 7,622)Closed at $340,557 after 55 bids in GA. Electronics.
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Methodology: counts every U.S. lot in our index that finished bidding between 2026-09-28 and 2026-10-05 (UTC). Median is the median final winning bid among lots that closed with a bid. The all-category median moves with the mix of what happened to close that week, not with prices, so week-over-week movement is shown per category, where it compares like with like. Sell-through is the share of lots that sold, counted only where we re-checked the outcome after the auction closed, since a pre-close reading undercounts last-minute bids; weeks before that check existed report no sell-through rather than an understated one. A category needs 30 closed lots to appear and 50 re-checked lots to show a sell-through. Uncategorized lots are counted in the totals but not the table. This is a sample of the platforms we index, not the entire government-auction universe. Built October 5, 2026 and frozen.
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