Five years ago, this place was filled with inspiration and ingenuity. Parts and components filled the shelves to revitalize old equipment or build something new--not to mention the gentleman running the store greeted everyone with a smile and kindly negotiated prices on items for students. My last visits couldn't be further from the past. PSU and management now list nearly everything online to the highest bidder, leaving little left to sift through in-store and skyrocketing prices. If you are in the market for an overused East Halls desk or obsolete cables, this is your place. If you want the Lion Surplus of old, I suggest visiting another University.
Fantastic location for Makers and those passionate about Reduce/Reuse/Recycle. Open to everyone and well worth regular visits as their inventory changes almost daily.
Not worth it for electronic equipment and computers. Their computers and other electronic equipment are very old technology (understandable), yet they price this stuff at or just slightly below current retail value for the new-technology counterparts. For instance, they wanted $10 for a regular old 2 button, wired mouse. You could buy this new for about that price with 4-5 buttons. Another example: $325 for a really old tower PC with an Intel Celeron-D CPU (single core and very low quality CPU) and no hard drive (and therefore no OS), which will cost you well over $200 to purchase to make the PC usable. Basically, unless you have an old HD and an OS you can install, you could be out $525 if you fell for this bunk. Then of course, it's still old technology with no warranty. I don't even know how much or what kind/speed of RAM it had because they would not let me open it up to look. But it doesn't matter, I guess, because you can get a brand new tower PC with hard drive, OS, multi-core CPU and warranty these days for about $400 or less! I only wanted to open up the tower just to see just how bad these people were screwing the public. But $325 for an unusable, old PC was enough to infuriate me. I'm not sure who buys this stuff or why they price "surplus" so high, but it's not worth the time end effort to visit this place.
It's fun to stop in and see all the odd stuff for sale--and the tremendous amount of money the university wastes. Great place for used furniture--especially desks. Staff is very friendly and helpful, and they will help you load stuff up into your car.
I have bought more computer parts here than I can count and for relatively great prices. Definitely check this place out if you need a computer fast or if you like thrifting for electronics.
Surplus Penn State computers, furniture, sports equipment, etc. They have a computer auction a couple times a year along with an equipment auction. They also have fleet cars out front to bid on.
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