GovPlanet

Can y’all redpill me on GovPlanet?
How much do auctions normally end at?
What about the humvees and duece and a halfs?
What I’m really asking is, could I start a surp business using this?

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Where do you think resellers get their surplus crap from? Gov't auctions
You can do whatever you want but you'll be bidding against other people trying to do the same thing

I mean, is it lucrative?

Only if you have the means and time to sell all of it and get the lot at a good enough price while taking other sale fees into account.

That’s sort of what I’m asking, I was hoping someone with an account could gimme a lil sneak peak into what shit actually sells for

Some of those auctions only accept payment and pickup in person. They're doing zero work to facilitate the auction other than listing it and literally holding out their palm.

I do not mind a 10 hour trip for 237 trenching tools.

I have an account.
It's nearly impossible to predict what things might sell for, it's highly variable.

I've bought some machinery, but I always look at trucks and humvees and shit since I'm into building 4x4s. It's crazy. Sometimes something will sell for pennies on the dollar. I've seen Deuce-and-a-halfs sell for under a grand. Other times the prices are insane, I've seen shitty humvees sell for more than people selling much nicer ones on Ebay,

That user is right. Most of the time they just tell you where the auction is located. You are responsible for arranging your own shipping. How big a deal that is depends on how far you're willing to drive and what you're wanting to take home. If you don't go in person you're at the mercy of what the local riggers charge. I once bought a huge industrial drill press that cost me nearly 3 grand to have rigged and trucked halfway across the country to my shop.

if he manages to get them for 5$ he can garage sale them for $10 each as military issue intrenching shovels and probably sell at least 10 once a year.
Maybe throw some on armslist or other sites as well

You can snag stuff for near nothing sometimes or it'd be near selling price and it could take awhile to get a profit. You don't see a lot of mixed lots anymore, so instead of bidding on a shipping container of surplus, it's lots like what you posted. Literally huge numbers of generally one type of item. Saw a lot of like.... Several tons of 40mm spent casings. Another lot was hundreds of one quart canteens. Another lot was 70-80 sleeping bags. Stuff like that. Surplus market is different then what it used to be

This is the case lots of the time

I really feel like there’s a bunch, and cool money to be made this way, think I might take a few Gs and try to fill a garage.

Oh, there's certainly the chance to make money, it's just not consistent. Don't expect to find a good deal every time, but the opportunity is there.

With the vehicles, iirc you don’t get to run them at all beforehand and you’re responsible for removing them immediately after purchasing. So you better have a big ass tilting flatbed with a huge winch, or you’re paying someone who does.

You could have a business if you have several grand in investment money, lots of time, and a silver bargaining tongue. Otherwise, don't quit your day job, sometimes you can really get screwed with an investment, tying up your funding, and can't find any buyers, putting you in a place where you won't be making any profitp
you have to constantly be buying and selling, or have the storage to store 50 oddball "pairs" of boots and 37 stinky cots and 100 stupid bedrolls and 15 empty fire extinguishers

Jesus Christ why couldn't I have been born in America?

This is really interesting thanks for sharing man.

They have an eu site too which looks like Mainly does vehicles

My thought honestly was to scoop a bunch of shit and do an infinitely better job then Kommando store and Ivan Sheckleberg

Like here’s my idea
>milsurp from here and eBay and other countries
>occasionally vehicles (already functioning and road legal)
>get an ffl and sell kommando shit
>wish/mall ninja garbage tier LARP gear
>peanuts?(lol)
>maybe gun parts

So basically, gearqueer encarnate

Sounds great. Do it. Please fuck the kommando store.

>golf simulator up for bid
>last hour, nobody touched it
>$1000
>Goes for $15000
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>pickup only
>Alaska

If you have 15k to spend on a golf simulator, why not just go golfing for 200 bucks?

It was going for $1000. Imagine being able to golf in your own house all winter long.

That’s, yeah man desu I’d devolp a drinking problem

It'd make for a great secondary income. Problem is that Ivan wants to make Kommandostore full-time for himself. I dont blame him, but you all have seen the problems its caused, here.
Still waiting on some obscenely rich user to open up a warehouse with random shit for kommandos to just pick and choose from.

....for a profit of 50 dollars a year and an inventory that takes 23 years to sell out.

I run a selling business for a living and sell one eBay, including surplus from places like GovPlanet and GovDeals. So some Q&A I guess.

Some of it. I get my stuff from many many places, both traditional and not. Some of it is just networking.

Which is fine. Benefits of having a box truck, pallet jack, etc. Not very expensive once you get past that first tier of being a seller. Seriously, my first box truck cost me $1500. Old Uhaul, wasn't pretty but she still works!

This is true too. There's a lot of shit I have in storage that doesn't sell well. But I have a system where if I still have the item after six months, it usually gets boxed up with like minded items and I sell them off in lots. There are several local "resale" stores that eat that shit up, even if it's total shit items. I also have 15 acres of rural property and multiple buildings so it's not like I run out of storage space.

His problem (IMO) was the attitude and the presentation. Also I think they tried becoming too big for what the shtick was. He would have been better off keeping Kommandostore small and making a new entity with a more professional sounding name to be the general business. But that's just my opinion as someone who has sold on eBay for 15 years.

You aren’t very good at math.
I think you could go full time with it, but you’d have to be less greedy. Hire employees and treat it like an actual business
.Yeah I honestly was thinking part of the initial investment being a deuce and a half and a teardrop camper so I can do pick ups for cheap, I think if I treated this like a real business and my passion, this could be a serious thing, however I need to find places to buy foreign milsurp from for pennies.

whats the profit margin for vehicles?

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I've seen things sell for a 10th of their retail value (assuming they work!), and I've seen them sell for more than you could buy one known to run from an existing retail dealer like Boyce. The problem with vehicles is that it's totally as-is. You have no idea if that truck you're bidding on runs or not. It could be in great shape, it could have huge problems.

Are there physical auctions you can attend? Like can I check them out before I bid if I’m willing to drive somewhere?

>yfw the Humvees are within 200 miles from me
>sexy motors in your area

what site is that?

govdeals. I think they only sell gun to FFL dealers, but most of the police vehicles are up for grabs.

thanks

What about C&R?

He could scrap all that shit and still turn a profit for 5$.

Honestly this. It’s not fucking hard to make a profit on 237 trench tools if you pay under a grand.

A 03 FFL is not a FFL?

>$2400 to ship

not so cheap anymore is it.

>CLIP

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fly to alaska, pick up and put on eBay for $9K

You make $7k profit and get to see alaska

>How much do auctions normally end at?
I'd imagine that large scale auctions suffer less from the over-bidding of small scale auctions, but rich idiots exist. Just make sure you're not blinded by a false deal. I've paid a lot of money for surplus only to receive a heap of garbage before.

>That’s, yeah man desu I’d devolp a drinking problem
sounds like you already have one

>I've paid a lot of money for surplus only to receive a heap of garbage before.
this is why you shouldn't shop at kommandostore

>I've paid a lot of money for surplus only to receive a heap of garbage before.
hey man thats no way to talk about nuggets