The Koerner Office - Business Ideas and Deep Dives with Chris Koerner - Everyone Chases Trends. Resell This to Actually Make Money⏐Ep. #220

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

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High-end toilets that are $823 each. Well, this whole deal sold for $750. And there's 10 of them. This is such a small risk. A member that's in Sacramento, they started buying his pressure washers. Sold 600 of them. But just 10 days ago, he bought his first truckload of outdoor furniture, patio furniture. Recouped the truckload investment in 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. $2,500,000 and $25,000. 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, but 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 5 p.m. 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 nobody put any effort into that title. It just says one palette of plumbing fixtures. Okay. 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 $78787 each, $700, $600, $520, coalers. If you look up these toilets, I think $750 was the best price I found for this Caro, you know, whatever, caro two toilet. Well, this whole deal sold for $750 bucks. $50 a unit.

$50 for $800 toilets. And there's 10 of them. They're not all $800, 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 into this business. And if you know anybody, especially it'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, four thousand dollars. 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 those 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 the process, right? The systems and getting it figured out.

So I love this deal. There's another one that this one, okay, one palette 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's sold for $1,500. or bucks. So there's 256 units. It's brand new. If you're in this business, this could be, you know, one of the best moneymakers that you've, 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, rugable, 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 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. We're headed into fall and all that kind of stuff. So those kind of things I'm real excited about. I still love industrial stuff, things that like plumbing stuff, HVAC stuff, but it takes a little more sophistication. So again, it's another moat 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 to 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 120.

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? Okay. 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. $0.18 a unit. What time of the year is it? It's September. So, you know, we're getting there. Yeah, we're getting there. You didn't 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 do it anywhere. 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 him for $130. I feel pretty safe that maybe even if you had to sell them for $50 or $60, 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. like $8,000. I've never even heard of these brands. This looks pretty high quality, though. Yeah. Harth and 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 can be a rock star selling these things for 60, 70 bucks as we get closer to Christmas.

So I like this deal. Super simple. Yeah. I just looked up hearth and hand on Google Trends. Yep. This is what I see. It's climbing in popularity. That's nice. Yeah, I love that, dude. It's incredible, incredibly seasonal, 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 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 was a, there was a

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 fight 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.

That product goes to a returns warehouse, even though it's brand new and get 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 or 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 more. Fine. 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 and 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. 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 going to, you know, you're not going to become a millionaire, but it's just going to add to your inventory. Costco was selling them for $1,560. They're the cheapest around because they're obviously only making 14% profit margin. And they normally sold them for 40 bucks. They sold for 11 bucks today at this auction. So $1,160 bucks, $429. I wouldn't buy these because as you can see, the shipping is a little

high. I'm in California. These are in Maryland. Yeah. 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. I was in the watch business and I had people return watches because when they were on

the plane, they would say, oh, the altimeter's off. Yeah. It was a nightmare. Yeah. I can't be in this business, dude. Yeah. So I love 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 dude 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 a billion dollar 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

they 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 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 upholster furniture and dining, you know, 11 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. It sold this morning for $5.85. 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 pallets. So you get to see what you're buying. I literally walk through warehouses full of this stuff the other day. Nice that they're wrapped up. A couple of love seats. Diningham chairs.

These look like high, high level chairs. So they're trying to give you as much information as you can. Too big, giant, I don't know what they are. It might be a nice 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, $2,100. $2,000. Oh my gosh. And that's a Costco. This is Costco, 700,

1500, 1,500, 1,300. 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 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 2000. 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. So 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 talk. about this brand last time. This is Walker Edison.

If you recall, they won't remember 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 things. So this is 16 pallets. They basically going to, this is a truck. upload basically, 250 units. Their price, you know, retail, they're saying it's $123,824. I don't see them doing massive discounts, but let's just be super conservative and use my, the retail price as a lie rule and just cut that in half.

So it's like, okay, let's just say you're going to 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 because 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 the truck load, let's just say it's $3,000 on the top. So if half the retail is $60,000, 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. credible 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 the most important question. Do you have to ask yourself? Definitely.

Oh, man. Yeah. But I would definitely look at this. This is one of these 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 of 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 one z, two z, 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 $5,000 a month. I have a member that's in Sacramento. They started buying just pressure washers 10 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, oh.

A lot of money. No. He's like, oh, I got to improve my gate so I can get Pallas back here. And he's posting and doing this kind of thing. So this is how it starts. See these pictures? This is the guy's front yard. I mean, they're bringing them right in here.

This guy did a sale right here. He's talking about, this is just incredible data for me. On Monday, they started posting, couldn't get anybody to come out in 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 his stuff, mainly 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, recouped 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 and buying it. But this is so to answer your question, then Joe has come, he's like, hey, we've set a goal. We're going to make $100,000 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 washes 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. 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. Are these guys using Facebook Marketplace? Yeah. That's it. Mainly. Yeah, that's all they're using. There's no, this is simple. Yeah. The same with the pressure washers? Yeah.

Facebook Marketplace? Yeah. Absolutely, dude. Yeah. This guy's coming up with building the AI tool to put for take pictures. Look at it. You know, just on my first auction at 500 bucks. I can flip the two chairs for 50 apiece. Costco price was 1150, retail 15. You know, I 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 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 smaller palates because you can't get a full semi-truck into your residential area. Yeah. 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.

Man, I want to go move the van right now and load up my garage with my carl. I know. It gets me very excited. Super boring. Here's the pictures. Take a look. Now, you know, whoever bought it. it could really know and go, oh, yeah, that price is way inflated.

But that's why they only paid $5.86 a unit. Yeah. 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 these 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 going to 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 Gob 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 of around 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 year, 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 see 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. What would you even do with this?

Who's the seller of this? This has been sold by a company called government remarketing. So someone took these out, made the decision that we. need to move in. These are in Union City, California, like about an hour from me. But I don't think anybody's bid. The opening bid's $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 got to be some upside here somehow. Somebody is going to swoop in and steal this stuff. Now, these guys are like, I don't know how to do it. 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 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. I see. 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 thing with a parking lot, you know, would you take a $10,000, you know, contact start contact? 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, 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, you know, reels and this guy. Well, 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. What's, what, here's another one that's really interesting. Oh. This is a full motion simulator. It's being taken out. It's 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'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 Black Hawk helicopter. Perfect. Use for military and civilian pilot training. That could be monetized.

Dude. You can totally monetize. Black Hawk without needing a pilot's license? Yeah. Ten 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. 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. 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 them 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? It's 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. And 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 driveatank.

Oh, big tanks.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 those shock stuff below and all that kind.

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. GSA auctions.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. Ambulance? Ambulance. They give away ambulances, dude. They're ridiculous. 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 $2,500 and $25,000.

Yeah. What? Yeah, it's ridiculous. And people were buying it for the batteries. Oh, my goodness. I mean, you could take people on tours in those things. Like Nashville has all those bus tours, you know. Yeah.

Well, let's go back and... That's really surprising to me that the government would waste money. I've never heard of that. Jeez. Let's see here. Let's see if there's any electric buses listed here today on Gob deals. 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 mini bus? Uh-huh. 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 Circulator breast 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'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 dang description. Oh, there's a million reasons not to do any of this stuff, but you're, you're missing out on the opportunity. 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 these photos. $2,500. Yeah. right, 2005. $2,0. $2,000.

Don't overpricing. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to close in two days. It's cool in this thing. That'd be awesome. Yeah. This thing is going to sell, I'll bet you it sells for under $5,000.

Oh, my gosh. 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 it 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 D.C. program. District of Columbia government. You know, there's somebody you could, 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 people that already own a bus company yes and say hey i have access you know i have they don't need to know where it is no or where you're seeing it i have access i've you know i've got this bus and selling it for nine grand they're probably used to pay in 90 grand yes 300 grand for these buses i imagine that yeah imagine you're right yep that when i posted it the most of the comments were because they've sold new ones too like 2019 2020 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. Yeah. And 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 crazy. That's crazy. Let's see what that flight sent that are sold for. Oh, yeah. Let's where is it at? Oh, it's getting bumped. So they do popcorn bidding. So if you 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. Yeah. Sitting at 320,300. I wanted to look at this little minibus right here. It's near my town.

This city car minibus, electric vehicle. $3,500. That looks cool. That does the cool. Who could you drive? Well, let's see. Who could you drive around

of 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. Might not work. Where the pictures have a socket set and a bunch of screws in it.

You may have to do some work. And they'll tell you, though, right here, right? Was warning when removed, not guaranteed. Yeah. Who knows when it was removed? So seats 10, available to upload. Oh, it only needs new batter. 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 KC. 10s. So these are the military version of the DC10, right?

And I think they've sold about 20 of these. These are in Arizona, which is a great place to store. There's four of them being auctioned off. This is a $52 million plane. when it is first sold and the opening the current bid the reserve to bid is five hundred thousand dollars 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 flyer you could you can you have to do with these i don't well i like 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 can get I would imagine you know cargo is the big game here yeah 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 gsa auctions dot go you can go inspect it you can contact haviere olivera at the uh airford base and you can go take a look at this thing. So, oh, this one is, okay, so this aircraft, okay, I'm speaking on turn. Non-fliable.

This aircraft's non-flyable condition, not in compliance with FAA. Yeah. Okay. So you have to bring it back. 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 solid. salvage aircraft. I love helicopters, and you can buy helicopters without the engines and the rotors and stuff for between $1,000 and $5,000 up here all the time. So, like, if I had a kid-focused or the 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. 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. Pedialite, mixed fruit. Let's see how I'm just curious. So this is 486 cans. Oh, powder simulec, hypoallergenic instant formula. Oh, November 2025, X. date, right? So you got to move it somewhere where they don't really care. So it's P-D-A-L-L-A-F-D-L-A-F-E-L-A-C? Yep. This one's not P-D. This is some kind of simulac.

Simulac is the name. How do you spell that? S-I-M-I-L-A-C-Simil-A-C-Pourder. Instant formula. What is the, like, the price per unit? But there's no bids, $500 you could buy the whole thing for. So you could pay basically $1 per unit. Maybe that's too much. Oh, yeah, $1 per unit, let's just say. Well, it's selling for $9 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. Yeah. 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 and see what people say. And see what happens. They're going to say, oh, that's a smoking deal. And we know 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 built in 1874 style. Yeah, I don't know if it was built in 1874.

It's one mile off Bridgeport's Black Rock Harbor. You've got to have a boat, 51 foot light tower, 1568 square feet. That's enough for a couple 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 bids been, this has been going on since June. They leave this up by before 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. Connecticut here. Oh, yeah. So your payment on a $370,000 house is going to be, what, $2,000 a month? Yeah. 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're doing work on it. I love that. That's my slippery math formula. Whatever 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, you know, I love the real estate stuff. And, you know, that's, again,

you can do it just GSA auctions.gov. This is real estate sales.gov. You can buy this Rice County Jail Annex for a million dollars. Here's another lighthouse that's coming soon. This is in Rhode Island. That looks gorgeous. Yeah. You could buy the former Tatnell Air Force Space Surveillance Station. Current bid. I always wanted to own one of those. $605,000, dude. This is a, 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. Yeah. 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 it for. Have that all figured out. Do the testing like you talk about all the time. 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. Boring is best. I love talking about this stuff. I love seeing the people in the mastermind figured out. It's a big deal that's really making an impact in people's lives. 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. Down the rabbit hole we go. Yes, that's exactly right. But yeah, if you want to learn more, Shannon Jean.com slash mastermind, you know, 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.

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