ASU Surplus Property

A bargain hunter’s paradise. You never know what you’re really going to find, prices are great.

I’ve been coming here off and on for the better part of twenty years. Hit or miss for sure… but certainly a great place to pick up a bike if you need one, misc office supplies and computer cords and the like. The workers here have always been ok to deal with, but sure never excited about customer service, overly friendly out helpful. Maybe they receive instructions to be this way from the seasoned guys when they start, send to be the only explanation I can think of. :-)

I have been a customer of ASU Surplus for over 5 years. I go every once in a while to see what they have.
On a recent visit (9÷18÷2013) we found a few small office supplies. They are usually «hit or miss» but sometimes you can find magazine holders, etc. I found 2 matching chairs that I purchased for my teenaged sons gaming area. The chairs were cumbersome and a bit heavy but I managed to sort of stack them and get them to the pay window.
They have a new cashier here. She is «all business» and not very friendly.
All of the employees were sitting in the office. It is the only place that has A/​C in the building. When I was done paying for all of my items, I asked her if she could have one of the guys help me put the chairs in my car. She said that I was welcome to use one of their carts.
I told her that I had always received help in the past. (I have purchased over 10 chairs; 3 desks; a table; 5 or more computers and dozens of office supplies from ASU Surplus in the past.)
I noticed the oldest guy in the office kind of making a face. Then he and a tall, younger guy came out (sort of abruptly) and grabbed my chairs. Right away they said, where’s your vehicle? or something like that. They rushed to put the chairs in the back of my suv, I said thanks, they seemed «put out» like I was cutting into their day.
I guess if I decide to go back… I will have to bring a couple of movers with me???

I have found some great deals here, Including a bike in good condition for $ 35.00. Also some decent office furniture. Last two times I went to get office furniture all the decent looking stuff had a $ 5.00 price tag and was «sold» to someone named Samantha. Interesting how this same person keeps getting there to get all the nice stuff first.
However, I drove out there today to get something for my office and they were closed when they were supposed to be open. So stuff wise, you can find great stuff if Samantha doesn’t buy it all first, service wise good if they are open when they say they will be.

So I work at ASU and I came here to get something for my office and for the department, so this was all work-​related and not for my private home use. Still, the service was REALLY good for basically an ASU garage sale. I got a black metal 3-​shelf bookcase for my office for $ 20, a brand-​new appearing wheelchair for our dept for $ 25 (these are the prices that people off the street would’ve paid too). For ASU depts the products are shipped back to the dept by salvage and in fact you are not allowed to take possession of them in a non-​ASU vehicle. Fine by me given that I just drive a little hatchback. Made my purchase on a Wednesday and the items were delivered to my dept on Friday. Color me (and my dept) happy! If you need office supplies, seriously check this place out first — they had pencil holders, bookends, shelves/​bookcases of all sizes, metal filing cabinets (cheap here, expensive at Staples/​Office Max!), desks, tables, office chairs galore (and most in terrific condition), computers, printers and bikes. To me, it looked like most tables, chairs and file cabinets were in the $ 20 – 25 range and worth it. Lots of little Dell laptops in the $ 125 – 150 range — refurbished of course. I’m told it’s hit or miss here, but I’m describing what things looked like the day I was here, mid-​July. Only a few bikes, but they looked like good ones, in the $ 75 range (not sure I would’ve paid that much for them but I’m not a bike person and am not sure of the quality of the bikes that were there the day I was — one bike was locked up tight, and had a sticker price of $ 800 — who the heck abandoned such a good bike on campus???).

My husband suggested coming here when we started talking about getting bikes. I was pretty excited to check it out. There was a sign in the front starting something to the effect that their bike inventory changes daily. I must have caught them on an off day. Oh well, more reason to go back.
Tons of office equipment… chairs, huge desks, filling cabinets. They had a lot of computer monitors and some new in box printers. I don’t know a thing about computers but I wouldn’t really trust buying one from here. That’s just me though.
If you buy something and don’t have the means to get it home you have 7 days to pick it up, which is nice. They also have auctions.

I like the idea of this place more than the actual place. In theory they could have Apple computers at steep discounts and furniture mad cheap that the university doesn’t need anymore that I could possibly give a second life. Unfortunately the stuff they don’t need is normally old dell computers, old mac’s and about 1000 file cabinets. So most the time its crap, but when a dept gets in some cash they update computers and stuff so if you lucky at random times throughout the year you can get an Intel iMac for under 600 dollars which isn’t bad at all or you can get a bike that is left in the bike racks on campus for between 50 – 75 which is actually really good! If you need a cheap bike in pretty good shape DEF hit this place up otherwise its really hit and miss. I’m glad it exists I just wish there was more cool stuff ALL THE TIME… that being said I’ll drop by this week sometime again either way.

Bought a 4 year old Dell Inspiron laptop for 25% of the cost of a new one and no problems whatsoever!

If you are even thinking of buying a computer, I’ve lowered it to one star. I just gave up on the Apple computer I bought here. One problem after another, I finally gave up when it kept crashing every two to three minutes. I put on the most expensive virus system possible. Nothing helps this machine I was sold. End result is I am junking the thing. Buy furniture here, buy office supplies. Buy a computer… never.

It looks like I’m letting the secret out!
I heard about ASU surplus and I knew I had to go! The surplus warehouse is a big secret, and even I had never heard of it until just recently. Basically, any items that grow too old for ASU come here and are sold for super cheap. There is a large warehouse full of cheap office chairs (ranging anywhere from 3 – 10 dollars), tons of large well built metal and wooden desks for about 20 dollars, and bicycles that get left on campus (and nobody claims) for about $ 30. Talk about cheap! They also have filing cabinets, some printers and super low priced but working LCD monitors. They even have Mac computers! The stuff is good quality, yet sold for the ridiculously lowest prices ever. I found myself wanting to buy things I didn’t even need, simply because of the great deals!
If you are a student that needs material for art projects, you might want to come here and check out the selection of old electronics and whatnot. They are open Monday through Friday from 12 to 4 pm.