Eight lanes for $17,503. If that was a contractorâ??s bid on a highway project, the figure would be laughed off as too lowball to be serious. But weâ??re talking bowling lanes here, and $17,503 is the winning bid on the Union South bowling lanes. It was posted by United Bowling at 9:50:42 p.m. on Monday night, less than 10 minutes before the UW-Madison SWAP (Surplus with a Purpose) facility closed the online auction.
For that price, the winning bidder gets eight lanes, eight A-2 pinsetters with spare parts, 16 sets of pins, eight scoring consoles with CRT monitors, Brunswick Frameworx software, printers, a back-office computer, five stationary ball racks, a machine for cleaning balls and pins, four ball-return racks and lifts, six tables and 30 seats, manuals and a few other odds and ends.