Centurion Auction and Buyer Beware what does that mean

Buyer beware is legal speak meaning there is no returns of auctioned goods; what you buy is what you get.  There are different interpretations of the wording depending on which auction house you are dealing with: for example, if you purchase with paypal or from an ebay auction seller, the use of this word would make little difference to a buyer, because the seller would still have to accurately describe the item they were selling.  

This is not the case for other auctions houses, such as Centurion Services or Auction Mart, which are two medical equipment auctions.  Their policy is "Where is As is," which can be confusing for people who are not familiar with this type of sale.

"The issue is more ethical, than anything else," says an industry expert. "We know ex employee's who have witnessed the owner of Centurion (Erik Tivin) and Auction Mart using Ghost bidding to bid up junk equipment."

Another Medical Equipment buyer Ian Kinnebrew knows Erik Tivin and has purchased at Centurion Services,"You better know going in that this is an auction," says Kinnebrew.  "Unless you are there to inspect it, you might as well bid on it like it was junk."

Kinnnebrew noted that, "Erik Tivin is loaded with money...he is the king of used medical equipment purchasing from hospitals.  Centurion is his third company."

Tivin was on a plane to india and wasn't available to comment.

But flying on planes seems to be what Tivin does a lot, especially between his chicago location and the one in Las Vegas.  If making money is what Tiviin does best, customer service and the general well being of his customers isn't what his company touts.

Kinnebrew admits that buying used medical equipment is a risky bet, "you might as well just roll the dice when you are buying at Centurion."

Medical equipment buyer and refurbisher Monte Mountain has had dealing with Centurion and both owners Eric Wilensky and Erik Tivin, "I purchased nearly twenty thousand dollars worth of equipment there and one item in particular came to me without any internal parts, it was just a shell."

If you are in the used equipment business and you want to see what buying at an auction is like Centurion Services or Medmart is like, you can roll the dice at www.centurionservice.com and contact Kylen Cieslak to get an account set up.

But buyer beware, not only is Centurion Services auction AS-IS It is where is too.  There is virtually no recourse.