Technology Appraising

People with technology value identification skill are able to look at a large quantity of technology and visually identify components of the most actual usefulness or greatest resell value or a combination of both. 

This skill can be emulated by almost anybody with a spreadsheet an internet connection and time.  People who get extremely fast at this are highly prized in teams that preform recon.Extremely accurate agents are used in field purchasing teams.

"Hey man.  You got 15 minutes.  Think there's anything good there?  By the way we can only take what we can carry."