I have purchased all of the equipment from university surplus sales by procurement. liquidation. My project hasn't fully come into fruition, but it has allowed me to proactively amass capital to begin with. Only two cons, the time researching, bidding for auctions, and delivery/pick-up. I still have a biosafety hood covered outdoors as I have to get help moving it, and finding a semi-permanent home for it. It's so heavy. So decisions with the freight shipment process is a learning curve, or securing help at a pick-up. But the pros are worth it, I recent drove 10 hours round trip for an entire truck full of new, old lab supplies. I highly approve of your plan. If nothing else just to ended the life of perfectly fine equipment, and lighten the load of landfills.
On 5/24/21 12:42 PM, Yuriy wrote:
> As for creating a section, the moderators would have to give the subgroup a label and a warning of no personal responsibility. The
> buyer/recipient would have to do their own due diligence.
>
> Having mentioned all of that I see a potential flaw, especially if money is involved. What if the seller is unverified and doesn't
> ship out that which is paid for?
Electronics engineers like 20-40 year old test equipment from name brands
because it usually still works, and often is repairable
more than the current machines. Plenty of mentions of things for sale are allowed and someone made a separate groups.io group
just for selling, with moderation and the same types of listing details as mentioned above:
Item name,
Point of origin
Condition
Willing to ship or not
Dimensions, weight
photos, videos
But they stop short of time consuming anything being required
not Video call demonstration.
not verifying
Those steps are buyer beware. That said, there is a community cohesion and people who have
given bad treatment to buyers in the past have been run out of the group.
So, there is precedent of such listings working well and being valuable, helpful.
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