I am looking into emergency blankets. Emergency Essentials has some at ~$13 each or $10 if you buy 12 or more. My local surplus store carries “genuine” Army blankets for $24. Then I found a government auction site that has lots of blankets (and other stuff) up for auction. The smallest lot I’ve found so far is 16 blankets with an opening bid of $50. I figure even if it goes up to $100, that’s still only $6.25 each.

My question is:

Has anyone here ever bought government surplus on auction?

If I end up with 50 wool blankets, are there people here who
would like to share in the bounty?

Is it even appropriate to talk about buying and selling here?

If it’s not, I’m sorry for mentioning it.

If it is, perhaps we could get a group together to order larger (wholesale) quantities of various goods and share the savings.

I’m thinking something like a co-op for emergency preparedness stuff.

Any thoughts?