A new e-commerce service is helping recession-racked contractors cash in on surplus project products. ZamRay.com is quickly becoming the Craigslist of the construction world, with 22,000 visitors and 110,000 page views within its first six months of operation. The Westminster, Colo.-based website is the brainchild of Kurt Fisher, 39, a former warehouse operations manager for electrical supply giant Gexpro, a unit of Dallas-based Rexel Holdings USA.
“One my responsibilities was managing excess inventory,” Fisher says. “Every quarter we would end up throwing away materials in the Dumpster.”