Yeah, just imagine if Exxon, or General Electric, or Monsanto, or your neighbor had the right to come to your house and demand money of you, and that if you didn't comply forthwith they could confiscated it forcefully and toss you in jail. I'm sure they could manage an incredible "ROI" as well.
Used car salesmen and repair garages come to mind.
Once in a while the state cops set up a sting, bring in a car in perfect condition complaining of some non existant problem. The garage or dealership will now tell you ,you need a new what ever and bill the person for a new one when the old part has just been removed and cleaned up.
This is how some government contractors do their own thing. They will buy seconds when ever they can to replace old stuff, and if some parts just need cleaning and will replace them for the cost of new ones.
Bids on repairs get quite nasty, an old boss of mine would bring the bid down to get the job of rebuilding water tight doors and then pop up with a problem, we need more money to fix defective handles. We had big 55 gallon drums filled with degrease stuff, take a door break it up and anything that could be salvaged went into the buckets including the small cotter pins.
My job was to be in charge of his warehouse. I would be told that ship was coming in for repairs to their doors hatches and scuttles. The number of the different items and then had to bag up the material to repair them., and deliver them to the ship for a gang of temp workers to repair and repaint them.
My Boss a retired Navy officer with a lot of friends seemed to know somehow when any ship was coming in for repairs. I would find myself down at the ship yard putting in a bid 2 days before it was posted.
First thing I needed to know, how many dogs on each door and went in search from the barrels for used parts that were squeaky clean. The nuts that were Farris were no good but the stainless ones unless the ship was 50 years old were usually in good shape after cleaning. Conrad collars were brass and could be salvaged.
Mean while the handle assemblies were taken apart and the large spring inside checked to see if it was reusable.
Came the time we got heavy into Asbestos removal that I accidental found out how the Boss worked it, AB has to be triple bagged. The cost of disposal is in the government bid. Unfortunately when I found out how the AB was disposed------I quit on the spot, I did not want to go to federal prison as any part of this.------30 years ago and to this day I expect someone to come a knocking on my door to ask questions. What the heck I am now a crazy old Aunt kept locked in the attic, it is easy to conveniently forget stuff from back then.
