February 05, 2008
How to Get Equipment for “Almost” Free
I got an interesting phone call today – went something like this:
“Hello, I don’t know if you’d be interested or not but I have some tile and grout equipment I need to get rid of and I’ll sell it dirt cheap.”
The first thing that came to my mind was….Define: “DIRT CHEAP”.
To my pleasant surprise, the cliché lived up to it’s name.
Turns out this gentlemen had a cleaning business about 5 years ago and had to get out due to health reasons. He had purchased a high pressure portable (one of the early models actually), a Turbo Hybrid, various wands, vacuums and accessories. He had sold all his accounts 4 years ago and had been storing all of this equipment for the last 4 years in a storage unit. He recently added up all the payments he had been making on his storage unit and realized he had better just get rid of the stuff.
Lucky for me I was at the right place at the right time – here is what I scored:
Don’t ask me why I brought my station wagon – I didn’t think there would be that much stuff:
(both the seller and my girlfriend didn’t think I could get all this stuff in the car – HA!)
The score:
1 – High Pressure Portable – FX-88 (older model)
2 – Carpet Wand
3 – Turbo Force Turbo Hybrid Spinner Tool (older model)
4 – Gekko Hard Surface Wand
5 – Carpet Wand
6 – TWO Back Pack Vacuums (need some work)
7 – Janitorial Push cart
8 – Mini Blower
9 – Collapsible loading ramp (always wanted one)
10 – Tone of miscellaneous micro fiber rags, supplies, bags, hoses, etc
Now the million dollar question – how much did I pay for all this semi-used second hand equipment?
$100 (one hundred dollars)
No, seriously. That’s all I paid. When the seller told me how much he was letting it go for – my response was
“I’ll be right over.”
Anyone in the market for some used equipment? 
are u looking to flip it? i am certainly in the market.