Buying Pipes on Auction for Immediate Resale?

[pruss]

Sounds like a dream job!

The most I ever got around to working at one time was a collection of about sixty pipes...

I really like doing assembly line work on up to about seven or eight pipes. Doing all sixty turned it from a hobby into work. Add to the fact that I was on a deadline trying to complete the cleanup and refurb before a gathering of pipe people made it more job, than anything. It cut the guts out of the therapeutic aspects of cleaning up a pipe.

Would it be different if refurb and resale was my full time gig? Probably. But I'm way better at what I do for a living than I am at managing the mass cleanup of pipes, and I couldn't take the pay-cut.

Time to rebuild the shop for NZs 230/240v service. I need to start buying tools again.

-- Pat

 

[Ahi Ka]

I’m interested to hear whether people who on sell estates generate more profit from sporadically nabbing gems for a few bucks or through consistently buying more modest but solid pipes in lots and then given a quick clean and then on selling individually? I’ve had success with both.

 

[ssjones]

I’m interested to hear whether people who on sell estates generate more profit from sporadically nabbing gems for a few bucks or through consistently buying more modest but solid pipes in lots and then given a quick clean and then on selling individually? I’ve had success with both.

Definitely the latter for me. I've had a few lucky buys, but no "Cobra in a Barn" story for me.