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Did you know that there are places where car that are as good as new gets sold for priced as low as $150? There are some types of special car auctions, where car prices are unusually low. This are called the repossessed car auctions, and can be found in any city at a give announced time. Repossessed car auction are usually held by governmental or public institutions , like banks, insurance companies or the IRS.

For those who wonder why the cars have been repossessed, then they should start guessing the answer from the name of the institution holding the auction. Some of the repossessed cars come from people who have opened a credit at some bank or even purchased a car in leasing, and ended up not paying it, and now the bank is confiscating their belongings.

Police and IRS also confiscate cars from persons that can not justify their income in a certain period of time or from those who can not pay the owed taxes. In the end, we can even have the opportunity of seeing military dump trucks for sale or police cars that have been replaced. For more about ex-police cars visit our detailed post on Used Police Car Auctions.

Regardless of where these cars come from, they are all now property of juridical persons or property of the government, and they will all be sold with no reserve and no minimum pricing. This means a new car, or a car that has just one year of use, will be entering auction at prices as low as $50. The cars are sold by the respective institutions at such low prices because they tend to over-accumulated in time and if kept for much longer their storage costs will become too expensive.

These auctions are usually announced in media one or two weeks before starting, and are always attended by business persons that own or intend to open a used cars dealership. They simply buy from the repossessed car auction lots of used cars in very good condition at low prices and then sell them to the public at much bigger prices. Someone that wants to buy an used car usually does not go to these auctions because people are misinformed and think they are held only for juridical persons, but he should go, because this is the place to get great cars at low prices.

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