Next to the Carrefour shopping center (BIG C) there are 100's and 100's of cars and maybe a thousand scooters. I saw a sign on the road with a website for an auction and a Bangkok phone number. Does anybody know when this auction will occur and how it works.

Somebody told me that you can't actually start the bikes. Can you get a green book

What Big C did you see the bikes/cars at?

you can then search Union Auction Bkk and see if they are the ones holding the auction

Has all of the flood water drained away from them yet? Seriously, I know many are repos, etc., but unless they were really cheap, how could I buy without even starting them?

Every vehicle auction I've ever been to, they drove each vehicle past the crowd on a bit of a platform, pausing for a moment and then on came the next one. At least you could hear them run, look a bit under them, and believe they might make it home.

Edited December 17, 201213 yr by NeverSure

For the cars at least you can typically start them, but no test drive.

You have to register in advance (there's a fee involved to join the auction), then you just bid, same as everywhere. When you win a bid you have to pay a deposit, and have a couple days to come up with the remaining payment; this is typically specified in a list of rules for the auction, so read up on that in advance.

Went to an auction once, didn't save much, the motorbikes didn't start after i bid, i had to hire a truck to take them to a shop, batteries were missing and one bike had bent forks.

It took 4 hours for the auction to finish, another 1.5 hours to pay and a month for the registration book to clear.

Some bikes were privately owned and ghost bidders artificially inflated prices.

If you are thinking of flipping bikes, the margins aren't there for a fast profit. All the money is in financing them, especially the late model bikes...the prices are to close to a brand new bike.