If they could buy hotels cheaply, they could both maintain control over the properties and resell them at a tidy profit when the market recovered.

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Mans explained that he would purchase the best diamonds and then resell those diamonds at a huge profit abroad.

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Dozens or hundreds of Ebay sellers in China are cheaply sourcing goods from Ma's Alibaba site, then resell-ing the items at a profit, says Jason Brueschke, a sell-side analyst with Pacific Growth Equities in San Francisco.

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