Yes, I bought the 8x42 and 10x42 Minox BDs that were returned demonstration units from a bankrupt store, at an auction company here in Kansas City. When you go to preview physical auction items some of the more standard small items like cameras, palm pilots, Ipods, binoculars etc. have "take it" prices you can pay to buy the item outright.
This place is a clearance warehouse for freight that was lost or misdirected and then when the trucking company pays the insurance on the item, and later the item is found, it gets auctioned off. If the item doesn't get at least a certain minimum bid for 2 weeks in a row at their huge auction/sales facility, or if they have dozens and dozens of an item, they put the item up on Ebay.
They sell as "Cargo Largo" on Ebay. I have been buying from this auction company for years. When I looked at Ebay right now, they have 761 items up for bid but only 2 pairs of inexpensive Bushnell binoculars (NIB). I have the luck of being able to bid on their items when I can't visit for auction night every Thursday and if I win one of their items on EBay I can just go get it and pick it up in person. I have gotten astounding deals on Contax cameras and lenses, computer equipment, bulk printing paper, clocks, carpeting, computer printing paper, pallets full of dog food and horse sweet feed, tractor parts, windshield wipers by the case and more other odd lost freight items than I can name. They often have high end binoculars and some spotting scopes on auction.
A friend of mine has a Panasonic WV-NS202A color PTZ Camera set up outdoors in the middle of 4 bird feeders in a quiet remote location. This is an awesome camera that operates remotely and has a 22x optical zoom and operates well in near dark. He paid US$900 for his. Cargo Largo has a new one up for auction on Ebay now (150169780464).
I am now looking to buy the Minox 6.5x32 IF BDs (maybe from Gr8flDoug) because I like the 8x42s and 10x42s but I want something else smaller with the correction for kidney bean distortion that aspherical lenses give you.