Locating Used Sun Enterprise 10000s For Sale?

AtariDatacenter asks: "My employer is having trouble, outside of eBay, locating used Sun Enterprise 10000 servers for sale. (In fact, they approved asking Slashdot for ideas.) Anyone have any good ideas on sourcing used E10ks?"

Remanufactured systems

[ratatosk]

I'm guessing you've already tried: Recurrent [recurrent.com] SunSurplus [sunsurplus.com] and of course Sun's Certified Remanufactured Systems [sun.com]

/wulff

Foreclosure Auctions

[squeegee-me]

I was sent to inventory some equipment at a company that my employer gave a few loans to. They were a VC and went under unfortunalty for them and my employer as they still had 1-3 years to go on the loans.

Long story shortened, to cover outstanding debts with creditors, like us, they had an auction run, and attracted a lot of people. Some stuff went dirt cheep, and some went way over the cost of buying it new. They had 15-20 E450 servers, a single 6500 server, and a 10,000 server among many other pricy toys I would just want to hold for a few minutes.

Check out auctioners and also some used resellers, but used resellers usualy let the Sun hardware go for a few bucks cheeper than new.

Also, consider the relationship with Sun if you want a support contract. If you buy it from Sun or a Sun dealer, Sun likes you. If you buy used, your requests are often put on the back burner, or so I've been told.

FYI, the Auction Co. was Paul E. Saperstine, and they can be found on the web at http://www.pesco.com/

These may be difficult to come by.

[db]

Most of these systems were purchased by LARGE companies of Sun's (I know, I used to contract for Sun), and chances are that if they phased them out, Sun bought them back out of their contract and and are re-selling them as remanufactured or refurbed. I woudlnt imagine these would be very easy to find, even on eBay.

Check the newsgroups

[rgraham]

Look at comp.sys.sun.* I see FS postings for E10K's not all that infrequently, and you could of course post a WTB (Want To Buy).

Try DoveBid

[dirkx]

Try dovebid: www.dovebid.com [doverbid.com]. We've had a lot of luck with them. They are the sort of auctioneer who does the whole of WebVan, AlliedSteel or larger.

Re:Value of E3000

[Bamfarooni]

Not exactly it's value, but you can get used components from ebay to build a 2x366 E3000 for about $1500.

Complete boxes for around $2k.

YMMV