MOLINE, IL – Moline City Fleet Manager J.D. Schulte used an Internet auction to sell off back seat cages used in city police cars, according to the Quad-City Times. The buyer was a cab company located near Death Valley National Park in Southern California. The old cages weren’t needed anymore because the Moline department’s new Ford Crown Victorias came with their own security cages. The cages sold for $50 each, much more than the $16 a piece he would have received for scrapping the equipment. Based on the success of the e-auction, Schulte tried e-auctions for other equipment ready to be scrapped or sold at traditional auction. An old plastic tool box sold for $16.41. A nine-year-old John Deere Gator with more than 4,000 hours, which was bought new for $5,000, sold on the Internet for $3,600. Homeland Security cash provided Quad-City police with a new mobile command center, so Schulte was ordered to get rid of the old one. So he turned it over to AuctionSolved, a Moline company that markets through eBay. Soon a bus and limo transportation company placed a bid for $4,494. Schulte expected it might generate less than $2,000.