Liquidations

[vettefever17]

Just a curious overall opinion thread. With the massive risk of VERO on ebay, although your item may be legit, are liquidation pallets worth the risk from reputable liquidation sites?

[phaz0rz]

Too much work and too much uncertainty is what has prevented me from messing with them. Even palettes from Amazon are probably littered with broken/dodgy items they didn't want to sell themselves.

[GreenBean]

Brother in the UK tried them with eBay UK and sold in a couple of EU countries, along with the UK itself.

His verdict was the pallets were not really worth the effort.

[newjerseymax]

If you can hold onto seasonal stock then it could work.

Lots of lots they throw in lots of seasonal stuff really cheap. So if you can hold them for 9 months or more then yea.

Last year 2017 we bought stuff, sold all non seasonal and saved, example Halloween stuff and put it to use this year 2018

[vettefever17]

I was thinking the same thing. I just cant find an edge where the risk and reward would be enough opportunity cost.

[DocumentRequest]

high risk, high reward type of deal

[phaz0rz]

Originally Posted by DocumentRequest

high risk, high reward type of deal

Hardly.

At least in the case of 123lots it's more like high risk, maybe profit once you get to the bottom.

[yankee]

The problem is the everyday household stuff say from Walmart and store closings are contracted well before the liquidation sale goes to fire sale.

Example, rarely will you ever see hot commodities such as diapers, razor blades, etc... They already have buyers for that stuff.

In my nitch, Gander Mountain closing, all bikes were sold to one major retailer, all kayaks to another etc... Clothing at the end was great IF you can hold for a long time. Odd sizes mostly and lots of private label stuff that is magnitudes harder to sell.