In my actual job, I'm an industrial boiler service technician and living in the Northeast US, manufacturing jobs, in our service area, are closing up at an alarming rate. This gives me a huge opportunity at the tooling, that they are getting rid of, buying 4-5, 5 gallon buckets full of taps, dies, drill bits, end mills, carbide inserts (and holders) and other cutting tools, for $50-$100 or a couple of delivered pizzas. This had led to piles of taps and such, I ended going to the my local industrial supplier, I've known for 40+ years, and get the empty bulk tap and drill bit packaging. For me this makes sense, the volume of tooling at times has been extreme.
The machine tools are either shipped out or destroyed (will not sell any machines to the general public, due to liability concerns), but the back door sales of tooling seems to be funding the lunches and BBQs of the plant personnel, during the shut down. Our company is there to change the steam systems from production, to minimal building heat mode, usually one of the last contractors, in the plant before they actually lock the doors, so the opportunities abound.