Lion Surplus - State College, Pennsylvania

Teresa S.

I took my son to visit Lion Surplus and he found a mouse and a computer keyboard and we paid a few dollars for each of them. They had used bikes, chairs, filing cabinets, dressers all for affordable prices! I like that Penn State sells their used items that are still in good shape to the community for decent prices. They also sell bakery items like breads, cookies and cupcakes. We will come back!

Sophie X.

They have cheap prize monitors and computers. However, they are a little bit out of date. It might be a good suit for freshman who is a short of money as entry-level devices.

James L.

Planned to go to the last auction they held. Showed up about half an hour early for the lot of vehicles. They held that lots bids at 11am instead of 1pm without any heads up or communication prior. They just decided to do it earlier the day of. I went the day prior to register. Wasn't told anything about times being updated. The card they handed out stated 1pm. Must be nice to have friends that can persuade you to start the auction earlier so you can get all the vehicles.

Steven J. M.

Friday morning sour dough bread is best in town.

MS K.

Large variety of chairs and tables available with some LCDs and MacBooks and bikes. The price tags are reasonable and as per the condition of the stuff.

Cindy B.

Less selection recently, but always interesting, and I always buy something.

Jeremy K.

I really enjoy visiting this place. They have an incredible selection that constantly changes. Prices are usually very good.

Cory R.

Are you going to find what you're looking for? Hit or miss. It definitely used to be a lot better.

A couple of things made this place less attractive to me than it used to be. The first is that prices have started creeping up. I kid you not, the first home that I owned was a condo, and I furnished it entirely from this place for around $50. A good sofa was like $20, a good chair maybe $10. Almost every single computer that I've owned was obtained from here. I am a tinkerer, so I have been "Frankensteining" computers for years taking parts of this and that to make a functioning desktop. This was certainly the place for that. Prices aren't what they were and are what I would estimate between double to triple that now depending on what you're looking for.

Since the COVID pandemic, their new hours are unattractive to me. I used to get off from work (night shift) at 6:30am, and I could run right over and see what they had that day. Now they open between 7:30 and 8:00 depending on the day making an odd hour or more that I have to waste when I am tired from work and just want to go home.

Now don't get me wrong, there are still plenty of solid deals to be found but there's no guarantee. I used to go constantly but now I really have to think if I want to wait for them to open and wager that I'll find a good deal, or if I am too tired and just want to go home and sleep.

I’m going to upgrade this to five stars. The people that work there are really, really friendly. That means something to me.