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It’s not everyday that one of my friends sends a request like this:

I’m also trying to connect with people to buy used/refurbished plasma/oxy cutting machines for steel plates for a steel service center I am setting up. Any ideas?

He’s outside the US and will be visiting in a few months. After I stopped laughing, I tried to figure out what advice I could send him.

My first instinct was to tell him to use Google and sure enough there a ton of results (the adwords results actually look particularly promising). However, I realized that:

• He probably already tried this
• He’s outside the US and probably won’t see results that are as relevant as I see (US geotargeted Adwords campaigns being the default option). Even his natural search could be way different.

So, I emailed him a screenshot of my search results. Surely there has got to be a better solution.