[ShabbyDoo]

I'm a Clevelander, and I bought workbenches for my basement here:

http://www.hgrinc.com/

The warehouse is huge. It's (somewhat ironically) in an old auto plant in a Cleveland near-ring suburb. They (as of a few years ago) list items both on their own website and on eBay/others. I recall being told that their business model is to make an offer to a company closing a plant for all equipment -- simple liquidation.

When I was there, some guys from Florida were looking at some sort of precision measuring device. They owned a small machining operation and said that this particular device would cost $125K new. HGR was selling it for less than $5K.

I was quite pleased with my $30 workbenches. One had been modified with large, lockable casters. On the way out, another customer noted that the castors alone would cost $100 new for a set. One could question the time efficiency of my purchase, but I wasn't working at the time so my opportunity costs were low.