The receipts.
Every week we publish the Buy-rated lots that closed below their verified resale value — with links to the actual GovDeals auction pages, the real winning bid, and the valuation source behind our estimate. Anyone can check our math. That's the point.
The gap is what's on the table before transport, buyer's premium and repairs — the spread a reseller works with, not guaranteed net profit. Why the winning bid isn't the resale value →
Think you could spot these prices yourself? Play The Price Is Wrong — guess 8 of these lots →
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How a lot earns a receipt (and why you can trust the list)
Most valuation tools grade their own homework. We don't: a receipt only exists when the real closing price — what someone actually paid on GovDeals — landed below a resale estimate from a source we trust. Every row links to the auction page so you can verify it.
- Buy-rated before close. The lot carried a Buy or Strong Buy verdict from GavelGap while it was live.
- Trusted valuation sources only. MarketCheck VIN-and-mileage valuations (vehicles), realized auction prices from the equipment sold-comp pool (heavy trucks & machinery), live retail price comps (consumer goods, discounted to used-resale), and eBay sold comps from extension scans. The conservative GovDeals-history floor and loose keyword matches never qualify — if we can't verify the resale number, the win doesn't get published.
- It actually sold, below the estimate. Closed with a winning bid at least 25% (and $100) under the resale estimate.
- Sanity-screened. Estimates wildly above what any bidder paid are excluded as probable mismatches, as are lots restricted to police/government/dealer buyers. Duplicate fleet lots are collapsed to one row.
Across the last 45 days, 92% of Buy-rated lots with a trusted valuation closed below the resale estimate (107 of 116). The ledger above shows the ones with a meaningful gap.
Honest caveats: the resale estimate is a model of what comparable items sold for — condition, title status and local demand still matter, and the gap excludes buyer's premium, transport and refurb. GovDeals links can expire or relist after a sale. None of this is financial advice; it's the same math the extension runs on every listing, kept honest in public.
The extension flags these while they're still live.
Every receipt above was a green light sitting on a public auction page. GavelGap scores every GovDeals lot as you browse — free — so the next one can be yours.
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