WINNIPEG — Are you in the market for a Harry Potter wand? Or how about an indoor plant to liven up your home for spring? The federal government has them for sale.
Thousands of items ranging from canoes to chainsaws are up for bids on the government’s surplus website, a place where millions of dollars worth of seized goods – and stuff the government no longer needs – is auctioned to the general public.
All the auction items still up for bids were forfeited to the Crown, the website says.
These items are listed on the Canadian government’s website, gcsurplus.ca.
“The warehouses are staging areas for surplus and seized goods waiting to be sold to Canadians via its web site,” the website states.
Once you log on and create an account, you can bid on a bathtub, a stainless steel toilet, a 2004 Dodge Ram, cheese baking dishes, used books, some smowmobiles, a plane and a drill press (just to name a few).
There’s even a bunch of old MacBooks, iPads and deactivated government computers (with the hard drives removed).
And if you’re feeling like computers, power tools and toys aren’t what you’re looking for, why not bid on a “lot” of yoga mats and exercise blocks? However the 30 boxes of mats will set you back $7,000.
With files from the Canadian Press