Auctions
I think I've mentioned my schoolfriend B on this site before - possibly in the "cheap tat" QotW.

B is one of the most intelligent people I've ever met; this intelligence is manifested in terms of his fabulous business brain.

When we were at school, he used to go to auctions and buy job-lots of all kinds of things, which he'd then sell on at a profit. At one point, he had in his possession three photocopiers, three 3-piece suites, 20 liquid soap dispensers and - my favourite - 20 broken telephones.

He managed to sell them all on at a profit. Even the broken phones.

One day, he turned up at school in an incredibly old and barely-roadworthy ambulance, which he'd bought for £50, largely because it had a full Calorgas cannister in the back - which, of course, he sold separately.

Oh, yes - he once bought a derelict farm-building in France because (a) property prices in France were, at the time, comparatively low, and (b) because it had a rusting and siezed-up MG-B inside it that noone else seemed to want. One restoration job later...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 9:49, 3 replies)

Reminds me of
the story about the barn in Portugal full of classic cars.

The story about someone buying it and finding the cars is nonsense, but the photos are genuine. The barn full of cars does exist.

Chuckled at the story though, Enzyme. *click*
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 9:55, closed)

@K2k6
Blimey...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 9:58, closed)

@K2k6
Blimey indeed, it is a boys dream to find this!!! I wonder how much they are all worth and what the collector plans to do with them
(Studentken is looking for motivation on, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 10:23, closed)