Everyone Chases Trends. Resell This to Actually Make Money⏐Ep. #220

High end toilets that are $823 each. Well, this whole deal sold for 750 bucks. And there's 10 of them. This is such a small risk. A member that's in Sacramento, they started buying just pressure washers. Sold 600 of them. But just 10 days ago, he bought his first truckload of outdoor furniture. Patio furniture. Recoup the truckload investment and hit profit territory. In the first 36 hours, we're going to make $100,000 profit. They give away ambulances, dude.

Really?

Oh, yeah. Fire trucks, too? Fire trucks. Full electric buses sold for between $2,525,000.

You could start a business just finding buyers for these.

Don't sit there and watch stupid reels. These opportunities are out there, man. Oh, there's a million reasons not to do any of this stuff, but you're missing out on the opportunity.

About a month and a half ago, I had my friend Shannon on for about the 12th time. We did something a little different. He shared a screen, we went to all these random auction sites, and we went shopping for liquidation pallets, overstock furniture, you name it. And it was one of my most popular episodes ever. So I had Shannon back on for the 13th time or so, and we did the same thing, except we shopped for cooler things. Some very affordable, some very expensive, all very cool, most boring. Because boring sells for my audio listeners. You can still get a lot out of this, but it might make a little more sense if you watch on YouTube. Usually my YouTube episodes go live about 12 hours after the audio episodes go live, about 4 or 5pm Central Time the same day. But you'll still get a ton out of it if you're not on video. Super tactical. You know the drill. Yada yada. Enjoy.

I want to talk about boring stuff for a minute, though, because I think it's so good. This is a company called Winston Water Cooler, Right. Which I've never heard of, but they sell plumbing supplies and bathroom things. So this deal, the best part about this deal, I'm pointing at my screen. You can't see me. The best part about this deal is, is nobody put any effort into that title. It just says one pallet of plumbing fixtures. Okay. And I'm like, oh, that's weird.

And that's a signal. That's a signal to dive in. Because it means other people aren't.

Yes, exactly. Because you're like, oh, that's boring. I don't want to buy pipe and plumbing fixtures that connect that pipe. But I do want to buy High end toilets that are $823 each and $787 each. 700, 600, 520 Kohlers. If you look up these toilets, these are very. I think 750 was the best price I found for this Caro, you know, whatever. Caro 2 toilet. Well, this whole deal sold for 750 bucks. 50 bucks a unit.

$50 for $800 toilets.

And there's 10 of them. They're not all 800 bucks, but the cheapest one's 150. Right. And so I always harp on, do your research, figure this stuff out. But this is such a small risk to get business. And if you know anybody, especially that's a house flipper, remodeler, contractor, whatever, or even just selling these on Facebook Marketplace, I think you could sell them for half off and, you know, make yourself three, $4,000. Yeah, no problem. Because nobody knows who Winston Water cooler is. And this is a big mistake. This would be like you trying to sell it. This is, you know, you have to have all this great detail in your product listing. Right. Because that's the SEO, your keywords and all that stuff. So I love this deal. And any deal like this, it's fantastic.

Oh, so good. You could list these on Facebook Marketplace before even bidding.

Absolutely.

See if there's demand.

Yep. And these deals are available every day. The product is not the most important part of this whole scenario. It's. It's the process. Right. The systems.

Yeah.

And getting it figured out. So I love this deal. There's another one that, this one. Okay. One pallet of pipe valve fittings. It's $27,775 their price. They're a distributor. They don't even, I don't think they have a whole retail. But it sold for 1500 bucks. So there's 256 units. It's brand new. If you're in this business, this could be one of the best money makers that you found. It's incredible. I really like the boring stuff because there's less competition to buy it because I think human nature is. We're kind of attracted to the shiny, you know, sexy stuff. But things like patio furniture, carpets. Once Costco started selling, you know, ruggable, the rugs you could throw in the washer, which is a big game. Once they started selling those for four or five hundred bucks, it changed the whole carpet because you've got like a branded carpet now, which better than, you know, just some no name, you know, carpet. I still love pressure Washers, if you're mechanically inclined. I think there's a big, big upside to there. And I love seasonality. Like right now, buying outdoor stuff and blackstones and stuff for the lake and all that kind of stuff that the prices to buy have started to dip because we're headed into fall and all that kind of stuff. So those kind of things I'm really excited about. I still love industrial stuff, things that like plumbing stuff, H vac stuff, but it takes a little more sophistication. So again, it's another moat that you're. That is around that kind of auction. And it's the same with once you can get up to buying truckloads at a time. It totally changes everything because you've eliminated probably 99% of the people that are just getting started. You always want to build a moat around. You want to be the only buyer if you can.

Yeah.

You know.

Yeah.

So it's. It's a. It's really cool. So boring products. And we're going to talk about some of those boring products today. We've got some sexy stuff mixed in too, because that's always fun. But yeah, it's cool. Okay. I want to start off just something really simple that's so easy. Everybody has a target near them. Everybody can see what they sell. It's really basic, but a lot of people miss it. And so let's just talk about this small deal. Five pallets, train tracks. Right. Sets. And there's some other stuff too, but these train tracks are like wooden train sets and has little houses and farm and all that kind of stuff around them, you know, for little kids to play. 240 units. What I love is when you can jump on the Target like website and see they're still selling this train set for 129. So 130 bucks. You can't sell it for that. Right. Because you're not Target. But. And when I search ebay and a few other places for sold listings, about 80 or $90. Right. And these are brand new, you know, their target 21,598 was their total price. It sold for $2,600. So your cost on these things is 11 bucks. $11.08 a unit. What time of the year is it? Right. It's September. So you know. Yeah, we're getting there. You didn't. But you buy these, you're not going to get them for a couple of two, three weeks anyway. You're going to be into October. People are going to, you know, all of a sudden you're going to be into the holidays. It's just a really simple, nice deal. You could sell on Facebook Marketplace. You could put these on ebay because it's a box you could ship out. You can, you could do it anywhere. You could, you could live sell these things. Just really basic here and very low risk. Right. I'm going to pay $11. Target's still selling them for $130. I feel pretty safe that maybe even if you had to sell them for 50 or 60 bucks, you're going to make $40 a unit and you're going to, you know, you have a couple hundred of them. So we're going to make $8,000.

I've never even heard of these brands. This looks pretty high quality, though.

Yeah, you know, Hearth In Hand. I guess it is. Yeah. And they have all kinds of wooden toys and I love that. I think parents love this stuff. It's not plastic. You put it in there and you know, you could be a rock star selling these things for 60, 70 bucks as we get closer to Christmas, so. So I like this deal. Super simple.

Yeah. I just looked up Hearth in Hand on Google Trends.

Yep.

This is what I see. It's climbing in popularity.

Yeah, I love that dude.

Incredible. Incredibly seasonal.

Yep.

Which is what we're after. Right.

And I couldn't tell you why, like if I had the target, you know, purchasing people on this show, my question would be like, why are you guys liquidating this? And I will tell you, like I toured a couple of weeks ago, the 100,000 square foot returns facility for some of these large, very large companies. And you know what their main concern is getting this stuff out the door. Because there's over a thousand pallets inside this facility. The only thing they are worried about, we have 50, 60 trucks coming on Thursday. We have to get this stuff out, you know, and they're also worried. They want to be good stewards of the environment. So they need. This has to be part of their story that, hey, all these returns, these things, we all find homes for them, they don't wind up in landfill, you know, that kind of thing. The other interesting thing I learned is that much of what they're selling, like Target may not even. Well, this is kind of not a good example. But some of these higher dollar items are just shipped direct from the manufacturer. Like if you buy a bathtub from Costco on their E commerce site, it's coming right from Kohler or whoever it is. And lots of times those things just can't be delivered. Something Happens, people aren't there. Whatever, things change. Well, that product doesn't go back to Kohler, and that product doesn't go back to, like Costco, for example. In this case, you know, that product goes to a returns warehouse, even though it's brand new and gets sold because they're just trying to move. It's too expensive for them.

And there's nothing wrong with it.

They're brand new. Brand new. And on E Commerce, returns are 20 to 30% of every purchase. Every single thing is 20 to 30%. And it's growing year over year. Right. So companies like B Stock, they're just set up and they have such good credibility that they're just handling this stuff. And they know they want to protect the supplier, whether it's a manufacturer, retailer. And they want these buyers to have good experiences. And so, yeah, it's crazy. It's right in front of you, this opportunity. These deals are every single day. We're going to look at deals today that have, like, no bids, no. No one buying them. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous.

As long as people are consumers, there will be deals.

Yes, of course. You know, Costco sells $250 billion worth of inventory a year. And Costco's E Commerce is just getting started. They're just sinking billions of dollars. This is just going to grow Target, you know, I think they're way ahead of Costco on the E Commerce front. So just going to go, go, go, go. I also really love seasonality. Let me show you this. This deal. It's a Costco deal. No surprise there. It's three pallets of Big Joe. I don't know if you've seen those things floating around pools. These are pool hammocks, which is really cool. I happen to have one brand new. It's only 39 units. So it's not something that's gonna, you know, you're not gonna become a millionaire, but it's just gonna add to your inventory. Costco was selling them for 1560 bucks. They're the cheapest around. Cause they're obviously only making 14% profit margin. And they normally sold them for 40 bucks. They sold for 11 bucks at this today at this auction. So 1560 bucks. $429. I wouldn't buy these because, as you can see, the shipping's a little high. I'm in California, These are in Maryland. I would buy closer to home. But just a great product to see. And, you know, you get to see you've got the original. This is pulled right from the Floor.

Yeah, they're not returns.

Yeah, they're not returns. Everything's brand new. Terrific product to add to your Facebook marketplace stuff. You might have to sit on it over, you know, the winter as things go, or if you're in Florida where people are swimming all year long. I love these deals. Simple, boring. There's nothing to test, there's nothing to break. There's nothing that's going to fail when the customer gets it that they're going to get upset at you about. Like, you know.

Yeah.

I was in the watch business and I had people return watches because when they were on the plane, they would say, oh, the altimeters off. Yeah, it was a nightmare. You know, I can't drive a plane. I can't be in this business, dude. Yeah. So I love this. This stuff, you know, talking about just returns furniture. Incredible.

I like the seasonal stuff because it removes some of the question mark from what you're buying. Because if you're buying something that's not seasonal, it's like, all right, what's wrong with this? Is this color just off? People hate the color for whatever reason.

Right.

But when it's seasonal, it's like the hardest thing for any retailer to do is to predict demand. Right. Inventory management is a nightmare. Whether you have a million dollar business or $1 billion business.

Yeah.

And so we're buying these pool floaties. It's like they order too many. That's the problem. There's no problem. You just order too many.

And I imagine it's the same with like the trains, you know, whatever. They have some projection, they made, somebody made it, somebody made an error. One thing I see people doing really, really well with this furniture. And I think because it's harder to handle, you know, you've got to have. When I say harder to handle, I'm talking physically because you've got to have a couple of people that are going to help you move around. But so I just pulled up these examples of a few. This is the Costco wholesale auction site. Truckload of upholstered furniture and dining. Eleven whole sets. The Costco price, which is a far more trusted price than another retailer that might be discounting these at half off or something like that. Costco price was 11,440 bucks. It sold this morning for $585. This is an entire truckload of couches, dining, furniture, and these are customer returns, a B grade. So this is in College Park, Georgia. You can see there's some manufacturer pictures. There's a huge couple of sofas. I Do get a little concerned of lighter colors. I would say that customer returns, you're going to have less cleaning up things than on a darker color. Here is the, you know, their shrink. Some of them are, you know, they're all shrink wrapped on these palettes, so you get to see what you're buying. I literally walked through warehouses full of this stuff the other day. Nice that they're wrapped up. A couple of love seats, dining room chairs. These look like high, high level chairs. So they're trying to give you as much information as you can. Two big giant, I don't know what they are. It might be an ice chest inside this thing, but, you know, you get to see all the, actually what you're going to buy. Right. Entire truckload of this product. Okay, coming in. Looks nice. You can zoom in, take a look back here. But the whole thing, you know, sold $53 on average per unit. And so you can look at the Costco price. First line item, $2100. Second. Oh, my gosh, 1900.

That's a Costco.

This is Costco. 1700, 1500, 1300. It's. The opportunity in furniture and heavy items is insane. It's just a really good, you know, product line. There is a. Let me talk to you about another company.

Well, especially if it's nearby you.

Right.

And you don't have to pay for that freight.

Yeah. If it's close to you, you know, you're obviously going to, going to look as close as you can. Costco has distribution centers all over that they're doing this. But I would also say don't get too hung up on the shipping. If the numbers still make sense. If you calculated and did some research and said, okay, the Costco was selling this for 11, I think I could sell it for, you know, eight. And you could pay 500, but shipping was 2,000. Well, it's kind of irrelevant. Would you invest $2,500 to make, you know, sell it for eight so you can make 5,500 bucks? So that, that's the way I kind of look at it. Freight is just part of the cost of goods that you're buying. Yeah, yeah. We talked about this brand last time. This is Walker Edison, if you recall. They won't like the online version of ikea. They've just recently started blowing out outdoor furniture.

Yep.

Right.

Seasonal.

Yep. Love seats, this kind of stuff. Nice, good chairs. All this kind of stuff. Okay. You see it all flat packed in the box, easy to store. I love this stuff. There's their warehouse A couple of things. So this is 16 pallets. They basically going to. This is a truckload, basically 250 units. Their price, you know, retail, they're saying it's 123,824 bucks. I don't see them doing massive discounts. But let's just be super conservative and use my the retail price is a lie rule and just cut that in half. So it's like, okay, let's just say you're gonna sell it for $60,000 or that's the price. Can you sell it for 60? I don't. Probably not because you're not them. This auction sold for $7,240. Okay. This was on. I saved this cause it was such a good deal and I wanted to talk about it today. So you're into this, you're going to be into it for about $10,000 with shipping. Because a truckload, let's just say it's three grand on the top. So if half the retail is 60 grand, you paid 10, you can't sell it for 60. Could you sell it for half of that again for 30? Probably. And so you're going to make a $10,000 investment. You're going to create incredible content, time lapse videos. If you putting together this sample stuff again, it's seasonal things, so you may have to hang on to it. But how long is it going to take you to get your 10 grand back? That's. That's the most important question you have to ask yourself. Definitely.

Oh, man.

Yeah. But I would definitely look at this. This is one of those boring categories. And if we click in here, I don't know if they have anything else listed today. Yeah, this is. So their auctions ended a few days ago. Within the next couple days, they'll have more stuff.

How many people do you know are like buying a pallet or two and then buying a few pallets and buying a truckload and then like starting like a retail store or like a local reputation for selling stuff like this versus like onesie Twosie. Just kind of flipping this stuff on Facebook Marketplace.

Yeah, that's the path. It's starting on Facebook marketplace and then capturing that data. Right. And capturing those customers when they come over. You should be talking to them and hey, what else do you buy? Can I get your email? Can I email you when I get a shipment of stuff? You want to run it like a business? Even if you're thinking, oh, I just need to make five grand a month? I have a member that's in Sacramento they started buying just pressure washers. Ten months ago, he sold 600 of them. Since then, in that 10 month period, this was a guy that never even used a pressure washer. But just about 10 days ago, he bought his first truckload of outdoor furniture, patio furniture. Okay. And he says, okay, I'm getting it in. He's talking about it, I can see it. And I posted about this on X. Within 24 hours of getting it, he'd gotten, he sold about 70%, got 70% of his investment back. Within 72 hours he was profitable. And that deal's gone. He sold it, it's gone. And this is a guy like wheeling stuff into his backyard. Yeah, he's posting like warehouse ton of money. No. Yeah, he's like, oh, I gotta improve my gate so I can get palace back here. And he's posting and doing this kind of thing. So this is how it starts. See these pictures? This is guy's front yard. I mean, they're bringing him right in here. This guy did a sale right here. He's talking about, this is, it's just incredible data for me. On Monday, they started posting, couldn't get anybody to come out on this garage sale. Started posting in Facebook groups. Do we have this? The phone started ringing. They had a $2,000 day on labor Day selling stuff out of their driveway.

Pressure washers or other stuff.

Furniture. And this kind of stuff. This is just stuff mainly. Mainly furniture. Patio furniture. Yeah, selling that kind of stuff.

I just can't get over the fact that he sold 600 pressure washers in Sacramento. Like what?

Yeah, this is Joe. Record setting month total sales $17,000, 85 pressure washers, 65% of the truckload. Because he did. He had just got in recoup the truckload investment and hit profit territory in the first 36 hours. And he's like, now I don't have anything to sell. So he's back at buying it. But this is. So to answer your question, then Joe is coming. He's like, hey, we've set a goal. We're going to make a hundred thousand dollars profit in 2026 with this business. And that's how you do it. You scale it up. In the beginning, he's posting about, you know, I didn't know anything about some of these pressure washers are broken. How do I fix it? And he didn't know how to fix it, so he found somebody to help him. It's all about problem solving. Right? And here's another guy, crazy week. Two loads of furniture, appliances, Blackstone Few picks. I'll have to run the numbers Tuesday, I guess. 80% sold in less than three days. That's freaking exciting to me, man. I love this stuff.

Where are these guys using? Facebook Marketplace? Yeah, that's it.

Mainly. Yeah, that's all they're using.

There's no Facebook group.

This is simple.

Yeah, the same with the pressure washers. Facebook Marketplace.

Yeah, absolutely, dude. Yeah, this guy's coming up with building an AI tool to take pictures. Look at it, you know, Just won my first auction at 500 bucks. I can flip the two chairs for 750 a piece. Costco price was 1150. Retail 15. You know, I've basically returned the entire investment, including shipping. I love it. I got my first one. So, yeah, it's super exciting, man, to watch these people. This guy just got in two. Two pallets, bathroom and kitchen fixtures, home lighting. Every picture you see here is somebody's garage. You know, it's just somebody just starting out and then watching scale and scale. And if you're going to get it, you can't get a truckload delivered to your garage. You have to use a freight forwarder. And then they'll break it up and bring you the smaller pallets. Cause you can't get a full semi truck in the. Into your residential area. And, you know, so I love it. I absolutely love seeing it because I know it works because I've done it for so long and seeing these people really figure it out. It's super rewarding, man. I love it.

Oh, man, I want to go move the van right now and load up my garage of power.

I know, it gets me. It gets me very excited. Super boring. Here's the pictures. Take a look. Now, you know, whoever bought it could really know and go, oh, yeah, that price is way inflated. But that's why they only paid $5.86 a unit. So don't fall for this MSRP. You have to research the market price because that's all that matters. And it could be seasonal. It could be, you know, and I would never recommend this for somebody just getting started because I think you would just sit on this product because you don't know who to sell it to. But what you do is you print out this manifests right here. You can download the whole thing and you just share it with people that, you know, say, hey, you're in this business. What's this stuff really worth? And a guy comes back and says, oh, 27,000 is a joke. It's only worth like five grand. Go. Okay, great. Then you work it backwards. You always start at the sales side and work these deals backwards. You should know exactly what you're gonna sell this product for before you place any bids, right?

Yeah.

And you're super great at that stuff with like testing on Facebook, marketplace and everything else. But this is definitely who's in your network, right?

Yeah, for sure, for sure.

This is interesting. I found this is kind of interesting. This is a gov deals auction. Obviously you need to invest a little bit more money and you need to have a little bit more knowledge. But these are Tesla superchargers. The kind are on the side of the road that you plug your Tesla into. It's the whole thing. There's six of them in this lot. It's not just the white, whatever that is. I don't know anything about this here, but it's the stuff you need to support all the support products. These big, you know, white boxes of whatever it is that you've seen parked. You see like one of these and then there's like six or seven test superchargers. So that includes a big transformer or whatever it is. It's the whole thing, everything. You get all the details. They give you close up pictures of all this stuff. All this stuff.

And what would you even do with this? Who's the seller of this?

This is being sold by a company called Government Remarketing. So someone took these out, made the decision that we need to move. These are in Union City, California, like about an hour from me. But I don't think anybody's bid. The opening bids $10,000. There's no reserve price. I have no idea how to make money with this. But I'll be darn sure that if I spent some time really digging into it. There's gotta be some upside here. Somehow somebody is gonna swoop in and steal this stuff. Now these guys are like, I don't know how to do it. Hasn't been. I have no idea how to test it because they took it out. They just. Okay, we're taking them out, we're putting them in the warehouse and that's it. Okay, they made a mistake here. They said it was solar charging, which it's not. But you can ask these people questions. It's like, hey, it says solar. I don't see any panels. This guy said, oh yeah, it's not solar. That was a mistake. You can ask a lot of questions of these guys.

Well, I just googled it as we've been talking and it looks like you can buy these for like $4,500 each. So this is a pretty good price. Six.

That's interesting.

Six of them for 10,000.

Yeah. I think you could own it for 10,000. Wow.

The owner can set the power cost. So I think basically what it is is like, Tesla will pay for all of this. To put, like, if you own a business off the interstate, and Tesla says, yep, thumbs up, we'll pay for all this, but we're going to keep all of the power costs and maybe you'll get some foot traffic from it.

Sure.

Or you pay for all the hardware and you can mark up the power cost within these reasonable limits. Right?

Yeah, yeah. Pretty wild. So one of the things I absolutely love about this reselling business is the massive breadth of different things you can get into. Right?

Yeah.

Obviously this is super specialized and, you know, but there's a massive moat in front of this thing because like you said, what would you do with this thing and who's got the infrastructure? But if you owned a piece of property or a gas station or some other. The thing with a parking lot, you know, would you take a $10,000, you know, contact. Start contacting people? Because this is. I think there's two days left. It's been up. This has been up here for about a week. Two days left. Gov Deals is just the best playground you can ever get into. I tell people, you know, don't watch Netflix, watch auctions. If you're interested in this business, you should look, you should be at Gov Deals every single day. I mean.

Yeah.

Looking at it. And just sit on your couch or flip through your phone or whatever it is. You know, use your time wisely and look at this stuff and think about the possibilities. Don't sit there and watch stupid reels. And this guy. I want you to watch those too. But, you know, this stuff is. These opportunities are out there, man. Yeah, definitely.

This is a cool one.

Yeah, I really enjoy it. Here's another one that's really interesting. Oh, this is a full motion simulator. It's being taken out. Everything works. All the support stuff you see here.

Would you make like a ride out of this?

That's why I wanted to talk to you about it. You know, you're the idea guy. So we got to figure it out. It's everything. So you have seats and the whole nine yards that are in it. It looks like a airplane in there. There's all this gear that comes with it. It's a big project, massive project. All this stuff. Test equipment, different things.

Looks like it's a highly realistic full Motion flight simulator for the Blackhawk helicopter.

Perfect.

Used for military and civilian pilot training. That could be monetized. Hey, you could totally fly a Blackhawk without needing a pilot's license.

Yeah.

10 bucks.

Yes. The cost to build this thing was. I looked it up, and I wrote it down. It was $18 million. And it's going to sell. We're watching it in real time. The time remaining in the auction is four minutes, three minutes and 59 seconds. And it's sitting at $322,000. Okay.

Seven bidders.

Yeah. Yeah.

And how do we see who those bidders are? I'm so curious what their plans are with it.

Yeah, you got to cozy up. And this is a GSA auction, so you're buying it. The government Services Administration. You're buying it direct from the government. It's at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Right. Is that a. Whatever. Some kind of military base. There's all kinds of data that you can download that talk about it. They give you the name of the people to call so you can talk. I mean, this is a massive. You know, it's a massive project, but a massive opportunity. I mean, they give you the guy's phone number right here. You can call this guy and ask him questions about it. So it's an army. This guy's an army, you know, representative. I love these deals, man. I can't stop looking at them because I just. My brain keeps thinking, like, well, wow, where do I put this thing? And how much can I charge? Have you ever put your kids in one of those simulator things at the amusement park or not cheap.

Well, I featured a business a couple weeks ago that lets you drive tanks. Drive and shoot tanks in Texas.

That's awesome.

There's only, like, three or four states where it's even legal to drive a tank. And of course, Texas is one of them.

Yes.

But these guys crush it. It's called, like, drive a tank dot com.

Big tank dot com. Yeah.

I think you could do a similar play with. With this.

Yeah.

Right.

This is essentially like, if you ever been on that. Star tours at Disney World or Disneyland. This is what it is. It's all the shock stuff below and all that kind of. I mean, it's pretty wild. It's amazing. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

And just to clarify, govdeals.com, that's a private company. That is not a government entity. GSAAugions.gov is a government entity.

It's a government entity. Gov Deals is a platform where government agencies can sell their stuff, but not typically not the federal government. It's more like state and local municipalities and that kind of thing.

Police cruisers.

Yes, exactly. Oh, yes. You want to own a police car, you want to own a fire truck, you want to own. I mean, any ambulance deals? Ambulance. They give away ambulances, dude. They're.

They're really.

Oh, yeah, they're super cheap. Fire trucks, too? Fire trucks. And buses. Like, electric buses, too. Tons of electric. Full electric buses. I featured a whole series of them back in D.C. they discontinued this program. They put, like, $100 million into it, and then four years later, they discontinued the whole thing. And the buses sold for between $2,525,000. Yeah.

What?

Yeah, it's ridiculous. And people were buying for the batteries, right?

Oh, my goodness. I mean, you could take people on tours in those things. Like. Yeah, like Nashville has all those bus tours, you know?

Yeah. But let's go back.

And that's really surprising to me that the government would waste money. I'm not.

I've never heard of that. Let's see here. Let's see if we. If there's any electric buses listed here today on govdeals. Okay. It's selling. It's at $2,000. This is a new. It's called a new flyer. Look at this one. This is cool.

Does it say what the range is? Oh, that's cool.

Do you see that minibus? I love that. Okay, let's look at this one first. Let's check this out. This is. So there's a whole bunch of them. These are one of them. So it's a diesel electric hybrid. This bus was sold back in April, but the winning bidder did not pay. That happens all the time. 37. Yeah, right here. The D.C. department of Transportation circulated bus program is ending.

Yeah.

Okay. Status title is clear. Vehicle comes with a key. Push button, start. The vehicle starts.

Everything's fine.

Everything's fine.

And that's why the story is so important.

Yes.

Because we. We're very creative about creating excuses of why we shouldn't buy something. Right. And it's like, oh, it's probably defective. It's like. No, no, no. Read the. Read the dang details.

The details. Oh, there's a million reasons not to do any of this stuff, but you're. You're. You're missing out on the opportunity. If. If you don't want to buy a bus, go buy a train set from target and make $3,000.

Yeah.

But here they give you the VIN number, so I'm sure you could do some research and find Some information about it. This stuff is all the time. And these things look like they're in pretty good shape. They give you all $2500. Yeah, right? 20, 25.

20, 25.

Don't overprice it.

Yeah, yeah.

It's going to close in two days.

It's also cool in this thing. It'd be awesome.

Yeah, this thing is going to sell. I'll bet you it sells for under five grand. Oh, my. That's my prediction. Yeah. Because there's just a ton of them and you know, people pay for them and they're like, oh, I got to go pick it up and what do I do? And you know, here, that goes inside. You can see. Let's see if there's give you more pictures inside. There's the driver's seat. Come on, let's see the back. Nobody wants to see that stuff. I want to see the seats. Okay, so there's this. It's like cleared out. This would be perfect for the van life, right? Yeah, it's wild. But this stuff is all over. These are in Maryland. This was a DC program, District of Columbia government. You know, there's somebody you could pro. You can ask questions. Look, you call Donald Jackson, they give you his phone number so you can talk to it and you can go inspect it. You don't have to just look at it online. You can start it up. It's crazy.

So, I mean, you could start a business just like finding buyers for these. Like go to like private limo and bus companies that take that already own a bus company.

Yes.

And say, hey, I have access. You know, I've. They don't need to know where. Where it is or where you're seeing it. I have access. I've, you know, I've got this bus. I'm selling it for nine grand. They're probably used to paying 90 grand.

Yes.

300 grand for these buses.

I imagine that, you know. Yeah, I imagine you're right. Yep. When I posted it, the most of the comments were because they've sold new ones too. Like 2019, 2022. Most of the comments were around off grid people that wanted to strip the batteries out, use those in their Tesla systems or whatever and then scrap the bus.

Oh, yeah. Make like a power wall system.

Yeah. Build the power because the batteries are so expensive. So. Yeah.

And that pro. That thing probably has some massive batteries.

I could imagine, man. Yeah.

I mean, how much bigger than a Tesla battery do you think it is? And those things cost 15 grand.

Yeah, that's right. That's right. So, yeah, it's pretty wild. And I just. This stuff keeps me up at night. I can't stop thinking about the opportunities here. It's. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy.

Let's see what that flight simulator sold for.

Oh, yeah, let's. Where's it at? Oh, it's getting bumped so there. So they do popcorn bidding. So. Okay, bid in the last probably 30 seconds. There's no sniping. It's not like ebay. If you bid in the last 30 seconds, they're going to add another six minutes on here. So it's sitting at 322,300. I wanted to look at this little minibus right here. It's near my town, this city. Car minibus, electric vehicle, 3500 bucks.

That looks cool.

That does look cool. Who could you drive? Well, let's see. Who could you drive around in that thing? That's awesome. Yeah, that's killer. That's nice. It'd be nice if you had a piece of property and it looks like somebody's been doing some wrenching on it.

Might not work.

Where the pictures have a socket set and a bunch of screws in it that you may have to do some work. And they'll tell you though, right here. Right. Was running when removed. Not guaranteed. Yeah. Who knows when it was removed? So seats 10 available to help load.

Oh, it only needs new batteries. That's it.

That could be the most. That's it. That's the whole thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. Anyhow, I love this stuff. The other thing I wanted to show you that just came back up today were the KC10s. So these are the. This is the military version of the d of the DC10. Right. And I think they've sold about 20 of these are in Arizona, which is a great place to store. There's four of them being auctioned off. This was a $52 million plane. When it is first sold and the opening. The current bid, the reserve to bid is $500,000. Okay. Massive discount. They often sell units that are where they don't. Don't fly, where they've like stripped everything. But these are still fly. You can.

You can do it. These.

I don't. Well, I like.

Well, I have some ideas.

Yes.

What would you do with it as like a. An actual airplane? You know what I'm saying?

I guess it would be a cargo plane when you're trying to do like tariff runs or whatever. I would imagine, you know, cargo is. Is the. The big game here for this type of Thing. It would be interesting to. They always sell every time somebody buys.

Yeah.

And this is 20 days. So you have plenty of time to go up there. It's at gsaauctions.gov you can go look at it, you can go inspect it. You can contact Javier Oliveira at the airport base and you can go take a look at this thing. So. Oh, this one is. Okay. So this aircraft. Okay. I. Speaking of turn, this aircraft's non flyable condition, not in compliance with faa. Yeah.

Okay.

So you have to.

I was going to make it an Airbnb anyway.

Well, that's what I thought. Yeah. I want to buy the. Really? The ones I get more excited about are the ones that the wings are already off so I can transport it and you could put it in there and make it an Airbnb. I think it would be phenomenal. And this site always has salvage aircraft. I thought, like, I love helicopters and you can buy helicopters without the engines and the rotors and stuff for between a thousand and five thousand dollars up here all the time. So, like, if I had a kid focused or tank business or that dig, whatever they do where they drive construction equipment, man, I would have four or five helicopters. These kids could just climb all over and go crazy. Let's see if they have any helicopters here. This is a regular helicopter. This is. There's the simulator. Let's see. That's probably there. Golf, electric cars, baby food. Do you want to buy baby food from the government? That's a little scary maybe. Yeah. Let's go back and see. What's the baby food selling for? I'm curious. It looks like brand new. It's in Puerto Rico. Pedialyte mixed fruit. Let's see. I'm just curious. So this is 486Cans. Oh, powder, simulac hypoallergenic instant formula. November 2025 expiration date. Right. So you got to move it somewhere where they don't really care.

So it's Pedialyte formula.

Yep. This one's not Pediallite. This is some kind of Simulac. Simulac is the name.

How do you spell that?

S, I, M, I, L, A C. Similac powder, instant formula.

What is the, like the price per unit?

Well, there's no bids. 500 bucks. You could buy the whole thing for. So you could pay a dollar per unit. Maybe that's what. Maybe that's too much. Oh, yeah. Dollar per unit. Let's just say.

Well it selling for nine to $20 per unit on Facebook Marketplace. Right now I'm looking At it.

Yeah. I wonder how. You'd have to research and see how important that expiration date is. And may, you know, because some people probably freak out about it, but a lot of people realize that, well, that's just a guide. And they're not, you know, they're not.

Well, you know how you do that, Right. You just list it. You put the expiration date in Facebook Marketplace.

Yep.

And see what people say and see what happens.

They're going to say, oh, that's smoking. Deal. And we know it's. It lasts a year or more. You can also buy real estate from the gsa. And one of the things that caught my eye that's selling today. The auction ends today in 17 hours is this lighthouse. And it's in.

Oh, that is cool.

Yeah. And I thought, what a great Airbnb, Right. It's on its own private island. It has a dock.

Where's this at?

Connecticut. Fairfield. Connecticut. Penfield Reef Lighthouse. It was. It was built in 1874 style. Yeah. I don't know if it was built in 1874. It's one mile off Bridgeport's Blackrock Harbor. You got to have a boat. 51 foot light tower, 1568 square feet. That's enough for a couple of bedrooms. It's got a pier, a boat landing. It's pretty wild.

But it's 370,000.

Yes. That's the current bid right now. It ends in 17 hours. There's 27 bids. This bid's been. This has been going on for. Since June. They leave this up for a long. You can imagine the government doesn't move too fast. The bid started at 100 grand, and today it's up at 370.

Well, dude, look at. These are some Airbnb lighthouses.

Oh, nice.

300 to 600 a night. And this is in the same. This is near Connecticut here.

Oh, yeah.

So your payment on a $370,000 house is going to be, what, 2,000amonth if you financed it.

Yep.

You'd pay for that in four bookings. Five bookings.

Yeah. It's pretty wild. And you get to own this cool place, man. And you get to go stay there when you know, when you're doing work on it. I love that. That's my slippery math formula. Whenever I get to use it and enjoy it, I'm happy paying a little bit more because, you know, I own a place on the river because I love to fish. Well, the numbers don't always have to work out. Right? So, yeah, you know, I love the the real estate stuff. And you know, that's. Again, you can do it just. GSAauctions.gov this is realestatesales.gov you can buy this Rice County Jail Annex for $1,000,000. Here's another lighthouse that's coming soon. This is in Rhode island.

That looks gorgeous.

Yeah, you could buy the former tattnall air force space surveillance station.

Current own one of those.

$605,000. Dude, this is, you know, this is a heck of a story right here.

Yeah.

101. It's 100 acres.

A hundred acres. That's like another asymmetric bet here is people could be looking at this like, oh, I don't need a space station. But they're not noticing that it's 100 acres, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously, some of these people have been hanging out in here. Anyway, fun place to poke around. The story here is today, like I said we started, the theme is backward and boring. Buy backward. You know, know what you can sell it for before you start. Don't buy anything that you don't know already know what you can sell for. Have that all figured out. Do the testing. Like you talk about all. And then boring products are typically going to be more profitable. You know, everybody's fighting for the sexy stuff, and you should leave that stuff alone and focus on boring stuff. And as you learn and build more sophisticated business models and, you know, you can wade into some of this other stuff. But yeah, it's great. Boring is best. I love talking about this stuff. I love seeing the people in the mastermind figure it out. It's a big deal that's really making an impact in people's lives. Just like. Just like you are. All your stories. It's a big deal. Getting people to think, pulling them out of the system, out of the matrix. Huge, man. It's huge.

So down the rabbit hole we go.

Yes, that's exactly right. But yeah, if you want to learn more, shannonjean.com mastermind Chris will put links in there, and I'm happy to answer any questions. And there's no secrets. We'll talk about it again as we get more. More stuff that comes up.

Okay. Thank you, Shannon.

Thank you for having me on again. I can't stop talking about this stuff. It's fun.

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