What's it worth at government auction?
Describe an item you own — or one you're thinking of bidding on — and we'll estimate what it tends to sell for at U.S. government surplus auctions, using real final sale prices from our archive. You always see the range and how many past sales it's based on, never a single made-up number.
How the estimate works
We match your description against thousands of completed government auctions in the same category — pulling the items whose titles most closely overlap yours, narrowing vehicles to within a few model years — and report the 25th–75th percentile of their final winning bids, plus the median. The more comparable past sales we have, the higher the confidence we show.
It's a typical resale range at auction, not a guaranteed value or an appraisal. Government surplus sells as-is, where-is, so condition, location, and pickup logistics move prices a lot. Use it to sanity-check a bid or to gauge what your own surplus-style item might fetch — then always inspect and factor transport and fees.
Want the bigger picture?
See typical sale prices for a whole category in the Price Index, work out what you'll actually pay with the True-Cost Calculator, or browse live government auctions.