ALBANY, N.Y. —

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin isn’t the merely guidance official hawking goods online. With the economy continuing to tumble, more state and local governments are using the Web to clear out inventory and bolster deflated budgets.

Need a desk? An airplane? How about an armored personnel carrier? Items like these and others are now rightful a click away for the highest bidder.

Joseph Hamrick, a 59-year-old construction worker from Goose Creek, S.C., got hooked on some such Web site, GovDeals.com, about five months past. Since then, he’s gotten good deals on a 1999 Dodge small commodities in onerous class, 36 bicycles and more than 2,000 brand-new T-shirts, among other things - much of which he gives away to benevolence and co-workers.

Terry McCorkle, owner of McCorkle Sales in Claxton, Ga., resells the heavy construction equipment, trucks and trailers that he purchases from GovDeals.

For states, it’s every affluent way to unload assets and bring in supplemental income.

New York has brought in about $658,000 in online surplus sales through eBay during the 2008-09 financial year that will end March 31. The state is selling things like lab supplies, scrap metal and a lot of World War II carbonized iron helmets. Like most other states, New York too holds traditive auctions off-line for vehicles and equipment and had brought in $3.5 million by the end of October.

In South Carolina, Charleston County officials sold their police airplane, sensible police cars and other types of equipment through GovDeals, gainful a lower commission and reaching a wider customer base than traditional auctions give.

GovDeals exclusively peddles guidance goods of all kinds, even airplanes, like the one Palin auctioned off steady eBay and spoke about on the campaign trail.

Other odd state government assets for sale online include:

- A pair of size 7 high-heeled, knee-high “pleaser” boots confiscated in Ohio with bids starting at $15.

- DuPage County, Ill., is auctioning a framed, autographed Sammy Sosa Cubs jersey for a minimum solicit of $156.77.

- The school board in Auburn, Ala., is selling two deep fryers with minimum bids of $515 and $321.

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