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Came across this listing and figured I’d share it in case anyone is interested. I spoke with the seller and it sounds like they’d be pretty flexible on price and just want it gone. I decided to pass on the deal but it may be a good one for the right person.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/353543101676?hash=item5250cf9cec:g:YvgAAOSwS5Fg0UnP
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Seeing those “Special Forces” bumper stickers reminds me- back in the 1990s bumper stickers and rear window stickers were really common (and annoying) in the UK. At some point they disappeared, like I suppose any other fashion. Even the dealer stickers seem to have disappeared.
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I mean if there is at least 50,000 items like they say, at 50 cents an item you’d gross $25,000. They obviously did a terrible job representing the amount of stuff in the photos. It sounded to me like they’d take less than $10k if you went out there and wanted to buy it. But yeah I know most scavengers don’t want to spend more than a couple hundred on any deal
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Five years ago, there was a guy selling off his military surplus store. He had a back store room with stuff piled four feet high. You could get on top of the pile and walk across the room. He obviously just loved to buy auction lots and was a horrible seller.
We crawled through and bought a truckload of stuff…that ended up not being great stuff. Most of what he had was garbage, damaged, gross.
No idea what this guy’s store is like, but the US military (and other militaries) are selling containers of used equipment each and ever day. It’s overwhelming. Unless military items are truly antique or have some kind of provenance, most of it is generic and not very valuable. This has been our experience. We still have several racks of military gear we cant sell.
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That’s interesting, I’d think military gear would sell well nowadays with all the preppers and people thinking the world is going to end. I know bullets have skyrocketed in price and the shelves stay emptied.
I was going to go to Mississippi and possibly buy this myself but I decided I don’t want to deal with getting a uhaul truck and all that. I tried to get them to sell me all the patches and challenge coins but they want to sell it all together. Some challenge coins can go for over $100 for a single coin but I’m not sure if they have any of those. It sounds to me like this is more military collectibles than gear.
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I thought the same thing, but then learned that the US military dumps truckloads of used gear on the market every day. I’m sure it’s really crazy now that we pulled out of Afghanistan. When I was picking up lots at military auctions in my little Tacoma, I’d meet guys who picked up their buys in giant box trucks. They bought multiple pallets every week.
Here’s one seller I met. His store is right by one of the auction locations. Very low cost items in multiples. https://www.ebay.com/sch/alleghenyoutlet/m.html?item=391983552181&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2562
$4.60 with FREE SHIPPING!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/301841414909?hash=item4647267afd:g:urwAAMXQW7VRFJC1
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+1 what Jay says. That Brookhaven guy has been trying to sell out for a while. I see some possible hidden gems in there (for example if some of those US badges are sterling, but they probably aren’t or he’d have sold them individually already) but almost everything I see in all the photos is longest of long tail. Looking at the listing photos, I see many multiples of badges, pins, stickers, and patches that I could MAYBE sell one a year. It would take 20 years to sell everything I see. For example, I see several boxes of NIP Venezuelan jump wings. The last one of those to sell on eBay was in 2020 and there are 4 or 5 always for sale. That visible notebook page of challenge coins looks like all Army coins; the ones I can make out are $10 – $20 coins and not hot sellers.
Reading between the lines of the listing and looking at many of the specific items, this is obviously stuff that didn’t sell from 1960 – 1999 in a storefront and again from 2018 to now on eBay. If I were to go look at it, I’d walk through and pick out single specific items that will sell within a reasonable time for at least $50, adding up $5 each in my head as I pick through and that’s all I’d pay for the entire lot. I’ll bet it’d be less than $200.
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@NC its not about the face value cost, you have to factor in cost of labor/time too. Going to be a lot of work. I don’t know if that kind of inventory is going to turn around well enough to make it worth it.
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