"Ignoramus21395" wrote in message
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On 2011-09-26, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
I just sold something on eBay & looked at the buyer's feedback. It's
very good - 12,000 positive in the last 12 months, no negs. 78,000
received since '02. Here's the interesting part: "he" was the buyer in
all cases! 12,000 buys in the last year - 1000 a month. I can see a
seller of cheap stuff doing a 1000 a month, but a buyer doing it
surprised me.

I spot checked the items - almost all industrial controls. It must be a
whole purchasing dept of a large company. But large co's usually go
through distributors where they can order what they want (what the
engineer says is needed), not search for it on eBay.

Interesting. I wonder if there is very much of this going on.

This guy probably sells this stuff on ebay also, properly
described. Possibly under another user id. He is also probably a
industrial supplier on other venues.

i

When I was younger, I was into Scouting. One of my Cub's dad traveled all
over the country, this was late seventies into the eighties, buying out
bankrupt and closed industrial businesses. He made lots of dough, and
locally, bought and sold tools. I asked him about the buy/sell thing that
he did all over the US. He said the trick was to have it sold before you
bought it. He was in contact with a lot of companies, and he'd go looking,
and drop ship it from the auction site.

Steve