That espresso machine caught my interest. Now, if they had an authentic Craps table with original Tropicana felt for sale, I would have to seriously consider that.
My wife wants the Tiffany glass. I’m not seeing the dates for the auction. I registered; might be a good excuse for an unplanned trip!
Apologies, it may be a straight liquidation sale and not an auction; I posted from my phone and wasn't wearing my readers lol.
It looks like a tag sale, 15% buyers premium plus local sales tax on all items. $20 for a room safe, $3 for bed sheets. Here is a walk through of the Red Lotus Kitchen .
I went through the price list and it seems to be some expensive junk. $125 for a Chaise Lounge and $55 for a 42" TV? I can't give away old TV's and these rooms are destroyed, why would I want any of that nasty furniture....
I wonder how much they want for one of those half moon booths from the theater? I just don't know how I would get it home or how I would get it in the house or what I would use it for or explain it to the wife...
I wonder how many things are going to just "disappear" today or tomorrow? I was at Candlestick Park for the final concert/event before it was going to be torn down, and after the show, I saw people in the concourse trying to pull metal signs off of the walls. And my favorite, a guy walking by carefully cradling a pizza carton which contained squares of grass/sod that I assumed he pulled up from the field.
I was tempted by this too, but I realized there's a worrisome disadvantage that if the safe were to malfunction it may not be easy to open it. At the hotel they'd certainly have the "master" tools to do an override as needed. However, it's possible one might be out of luck if this happened at home with a secondhand hotel safe... I also recall one hotel engineer telling me about how "loose" safes were sometimes taken by guests, and he commented to me "I don't know why anybody would want to take these home, they aren't even fire rated". Although I don't know if that's the case for Trop's safes, that's another factor worth considering IMO. If I'd like to secure things like my passport/cash/etc. in my home, I'd much prefer paying somewhere in the hundreds of dollars to have it done right. Though perhaps this $20 safe could be a good "decoy" safe to put in a semi-conspicuous place filled with a couple of bricks and an AirTag. That way if someone were to break in, this is the one they'd be more likely to take
Most likely things from these lists will be purchased by smaller hotel/motel operators looking to replace items at their locations. Nothing near like when the Plaza bought up all the new furniture that Fontainebleau originally was going to put in their hotel, but you get the idea.
[most of my early dorms/apartments had pieces from hotel liquidator stores - I think I still have some pieces! Boy can you get great prices. There's a new store nearish to me - I don't need anything but they regularly have parking lot sales where everything is $5 or $10. Right now they have sleeper sofas for $10!!]
I'm in the commercial auction business. Most of the mom and pops who buy hotel furnishings from us are looking for post PIP or Flag changeovers, which is usually 5-10 year old items.
These things are quite fun if they just let you wander around the old property to grab stuff. My buddy and I went when they liquidated the old Sahara and we just went all over that property -- the suites, the kitchens, the Crazy Girls dressing room -- wherever.
Yeah, I think for Boardwalk they removed everything to an offsite warehouse for the auction? I know they had stuff posted online ahead of time, but I don't think the sale was onsite.
