Public Surplus Benefits & Registration
Public Surplus™ has been helping government agencies sell their surplus for over 20 years. If your county or department has surplus equipment, vehicles, real estate, or anything else, Public Surplus can help you sell it quickly. Their user-friendly platform saves sellers valuable time, money, and resources, while helping agencies earn top dollar for listings with their true auction environment and robust database of qualified buyers.
County sellers enjoy the service at no cost, and by using WSAC’s registration link, the association benefits from the sales. Everyone wins!
If you have not registered via WSAC’s registration link, be sure to do so, even if you already have an active surplus account, to ensure that sales are tracked back to the association. If you already have an account, Public Surplus will make transition seamless once you register with WSAC.
Benefits of using Public Surplus:
- Save Money: Why pay for an auction service when you can use Public Surplus for free? Public Surplus does not charge your agency any amount for using our service. The buyer pays our low commission fee.
- Make More Money: Public Surplus provides a true auction environment. If a bid is placed within the final five minutes of an auction, the auction will automatically extend for an additional five minutes, ensuring that every buyer has the opportunity to place their bid. Agencies have seen significant increases in sales prices due to this feature, and it ensures a fair and legal auction process.
- Be In Compliance: Public Surplus includes features and functions that ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulations. Reports are easily produced to address any audit or inquiry, and are available online 24/7/365 for a minimum of seven (7) years.
- Take the Easy Way Out: Public Surplus is easy, intuitive and some even call it fun for auction creation and bidding. Public Surplus has a mobile APP that is used to create auctions and make it quicker than any other platform out there.
- Increase Competition: The Public Surplus buyer database contains hundreds of thousands of qualified buyers who are looking for the type of surplus that government agencies sell.
- Use As Needed: Public Surplus is available as needed to any government agency requiring an effective method to dispose of its surplus. No contracts are required, no sales volume commitment is required, and no auction frequency commitment is required. Agencies that require a contract can piggyback on one of several existing competitively bid contracts.
A Public Surplus pilot program is the easiest way to “test drive” Public Surplus and experience the success that more than 4,000 agencies throughout the United States have experienced.
Please contact Jaren Waters at and he can get you signed up for a demonstration.
If you are ready to get started selling surplus, visit WSAC’s registration link and fill out the one-page application. Once you have completed the application, you will receive an email with instructions on how to complete the registration process and obtain full access to the site.
Already Registered?
If you’re already a Public Surplus member but have not registered through WSAC’s registration link (also below), please be sure to register again. Nothing changes on your account, as Public Surplus will make the transition seamless.
New and returning users must register here to directly link to WSAC’s Public Surplus page: register.publicsurplus.com/sms/wsac,wa/register/agency
