With the developing nuclear disaster in Japan, I discovered that there is lots of money being made selling geiger counters. Prices of geiger counters on Ebay and various other places seem to have tripled instantly.
Well, you could say that’s the free market in action. But it wouldn’t surprise me if prices are driven up by people not actually needing geiger counters but buying them anyway out of fear while they are not likely to experience any effects of the disaster.
Today I saw something much worse, some German on Ebay trying to sell a “geiger counter” which actually is a high range survey meter, a CDV715 according to the picture. Continue reading Post ID 870