On Sep 27, 5:53*am, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:41:46 -0500, Ignoramus21395





wrote:
On 2011-09-27, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:15:54 -0400, 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.

Bob

Yes indeed. *Which is why when the economy finally recovers in 3-5
yrs...or starts to anyways..there will be people who have locks on many
industrial devices. *Same way with Hummel figurines and so forth.

Now is an AWESOME time to deal in surplus equipment... like shooting
fish in a barrel...

i

You just had damned well better know what is going to sell in the
future..and whats best sold for scrap.

California went through that twice in the past 10 yrs. *And a ****load
of stuff went for scrap, because no one would buy it beyond its scrap
value. And shipping a 240" Monarch lathe was far far more than scrap
value, with few *people interested in buying it.

Gunner

"In the history of mankind, there have always been men and women who's goal
in life is to take down nations. We have just elected such a man to run our
country." - David Lloyyd (2008)- Hide quoted text -

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So Gummer...how does it feel knowing that Ig can make piles of money
by accident while you are slowly starving to death with both of you
doing the same surplus thing?

TMT