This story originally appeared in the April 2009 issue of DOTmed Business News

Bringing Customers Together

DOTmed Auction Specialist Mike Galella contacted White Plains Hospital Center in Westchester County New York to inventory some equipment for auction.
The center had some endoscopy equipment as well as a three year old "never used" Air Shields TI 500 Transport Incubator.

The endoscopy equipment sold quickly but the plans to start a transport with another hospital failed to materialize.

Fortunately, Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie New York
- another DOTmed user - found the Transport Incubator on our site about four weeks into the auction.

They took part in the auction and were the high bidder at $12,500, both parties were very pleased with the outcome of this auction.

The seller was happy about the sale price and the buyer was happy about finding a great piece of equipment at a decent price that fulfilled their need to replace an older unit.


A New Radiologist in Pennsylvania Means New Equipment for the Hospital ... and Zambia
A hospital in Pennsylvania hired a new radiologist with the condition that the radiologist would work with only Hologic digital mammographers. The problem was - the hospital had purchased a GE Senographe 2000 D just the year before. This machine now needed to find a new home.
The machine was purchased by a dealer in Florida who then relisted for sale on DOTmed with a starting price of $100k and a Purchase Now price of $175k. The system sold for the Purchase Now price to a company in Lusaka, Zambia that is currently building a state-of-the-art medical center.

Due to the delicate nature of the equipment and the high price involved, DOTmed arranged for an independent engineer to inspect the staged system and to remove the digital plate for shipping purposes. DOTmed Auction Managers worked with the buyer and seller to arrange crating and shipping. The medical center was able to save up to $200k by purchasing a system just a year old.

Repeat Business
In January a DOTmed user successfully auctioned a Toshiba Aquilion. The experience went so well that they recently returned to list a Dornier Epos Ultra. The auction started a little slow with rejected bids of $10k and $15.5k before hitting the magic amount of $20k from a dealer in California.
Auction Manager Cole Johnson assisted with arranging the shipping from Wisconsin to California and another successful Auction concluded.
Third Time's the Charm - So Were the Second and the First
Twice last year EECP units were auctioned by a cardio clinic in Missouri. Both auctions went so well that they decided to give it one more try with a final unit they had left. Just like the others, this unit successfully sold. The final price saw the unit out the door for $7500.

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