Liquidation Lot Reselling

What It Is

Register on liquidation marketplaces such as B-Stock (a resale permit is required) and bid on pallets and truckloads from retailers and suppliers, aiming to pay about 10% of the listed retail value including freight. Before bidding, check what the items actually sell for using eBay's free sold-listing research, and plan how to earn your money back first. Sell individual items on eBay and Poshmark with careful packaging, free returns and generous customer service, and sell bulk to businesses by phoning them, for example calling sports and comic shops about surplus NFL jerseys or screen printers about blank apparel. The guest, a longtime reseller named Shannon, says one lot of team jerseys bought for $28,000 sold for $103,000, shipped from his garage.

The Pitch

The guest says lots routinely sell for two to five cents on the dollar and can be resold for 20 to 30 cents, and that a good system matters more than the category. He says most resellers skip the phone, so calling likely buyers is where the profit is, and that building relationships with marketplace category managers helps protect your seller account.

Who It’s Best For

Organized, numbers-minded people with garage or storage space who don't mind handling boxes and calling businesses.

The Truth (as we see it)

Liquidation reselling is a real, long-established business, and the advice to research sold prices before bidding and to recover your cost first is sensible. The deal numbers are the guest's own and unverified, and his examples include costly mistakes, like a lot of jerseys that turned out to be oversized. He says himself it is hard work and not passive: lots can contain damaged or hard-to-sell goods, freight adds up, and moving bulk inventory means lots of phone calls and rejection. A US resale permit is needed for the marketplaces named, and the video is a clip from the creator's podcast.

Our assessment, based on the video and what’s typical across similar videos. We don’t independently verify income claims or prices.