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A common practice by enterprising immigrants is to buy a cheap used van and fill it with cheap electronics and tools, then ship it to their relatives where they came from. The nicest house in my neighborhood is owned by a great Haitian-American who does this all the time. I've never heard of any of them doing it with used TV sets but I have heard they can do well with appliances. A customer of mine has a key employee from Guatemala who does this, too. His family runs a store down there which he keeps stocked, mostly with refrigerators but other stuff too.
I have noticed that the main sellers of TV sets at the flea market are immigrants now. That also seems to be the main group of buyers. I am very curious to see, once it warms up again, what the digital switch will do to that business. I like those guys because every so often they end up with older stuff (transistor T-O's, Superradios, an occasional 40 year old tv) and they sell them dirt cheap to get rid of them.
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Bryan
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