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A government surplus vendor has Rapiscan Backscatter Body scanners listed for sale on ebay. The price - just $8K. Brand new they were $160K. These are the same units that were affectionately dubbed "porno scanners" before the TSA bowed to public pressure and yanked them out of commission. You might remember Rapiscan as the company that hired former Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff as a way to guarantee their place at the trough full of sweet, sweet tax dollars.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @05:02PM
Ah welcome to the world of government surplus.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=off&q=us+government+surplus+auctions [google.com]
You can find tons of stuff like what this dude found for *very* cheap then flip it on eBay.
Take this little gem for an example
http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucitsrh/?sl=71QSCI15805016 [gsaauctions.gov]
10 bucks for 6 monitors that probably all work. You pick them up. Then you can probably flip them on ebay for 10-15 bucks each.
It takes very little time and you can make a steady living off the arbitrage. With the occasional home run.
You probably could do very nicely on this too on ebay (would be tedious but doable if you live in denver)
http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucitsrh/?sl=81QSCI15051021 [gsaauctions.gov]
The downside to most of the auctions is you have to pickup within 1-2 days of auction end.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @05:39PM
I know people who do importing and exporting and buy and sell things overseas and in America. They work in one of the suites at this place I work at. I don't know how much they make but they all drive really nice cars.