If you’ve been buying liquidated stock by the pallet from a liquidator, you may be considering taking the next step and ordering a truckload of stock from an online liquidation marketplace instead.
There are several advantages to doing this. While buying pallets of top quality merchandise at vastly reduced prices from a liquidator is, of course, a great way to save your business a considerable amount of money, there’s no denying that the shipping and handling costs can ramp up compared to buying truckloads of stock from the same source.
Put simply, buying truckloads of liquidated merchandise works out cheaper because the goods can all go on the same truck, and a discount can often be negotiated with the liquidator.
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We’ve already touched on some of the advantages of buying by the truckload as opposed to by single pallet. On top of the savings you’ll enjoy thanks to the reduced shipping costs associated with buying by the truckload and the savings you’ll make by negotiating a bigger discount with the liquidators, there are also additional benefits.
By buying truckloads of goods from a respected liquidation platform such as Direct Liquidation, you’ll have peace of mind in knowing that the pallets of merchandise you buy will not have been cherry-picked first.
Unfortunately, cherry picking is an all-too-common problem in the liquidation industry. Unscrupulous liquidators who say they are partner companies with some of the nation’s biggest retailer very rarely are. Instead, they acquire their stock from other sources, pick out the best stuff from the pallets they purchase and then pass off what’s left as top-quality stock. It’s anything from it. They even go so far as to change manifests to give off the impression that pallets contain a good mix of merchandise. Sometimes they don’t even have the pallets of goods they advertise; instead, they take a business’s money and then source the pallet afterward, often leading to delays in delivery and pallets not living up to a buyer’s expectations when they eventually turn up.
Secondly, a top-tier liquidator offers quality assurance. A company such as Direct Liquidation is a genuine partner platform for Walmart liquidations, for example, offering this titan of the retail world a platform to sell its customer returns, overstock and closeouts to business customers at prices they won’t find anywhere else.
By offering platforms for big retailers such as Walmart, Target, and Best Buy to sell their customer returns, overstock and closeouts, top-tier liquidators can offer customers some of the best merchandise around, coming from some of the most trusted names in manufacturing such as Apple, Samsung, and Sony. And because no middle man has siphoned off the good stuff, there will be plenty of ‘as new’, boxed products in each pallet on your truckload to sell through to your customers.
Add to this a constant supply of stock and access to a dedicated team of liquidation specialists who will work with you to make sure you get the stock you need for your business as and when you need it at the best price possible, and it’s not hard to see why buying truckloads of liquidated stock from a reputable liquidator is an attractive prospect.
And, best of all, because you’re buying truckloads of goods, most top-tier liquidators are happy to hear your offer on an overall price for the truckload you intend to buy. If they agree, you’ll save even more money, and that will help your business maximize its profits.
Most customers opt to pick up their purchases of overstock, closeouts and customer return pallets from Direct Liquidation, or use a courier carrier to do it for them. However, we would recommend checking out the company’s shipping and handling price as it may work out they can offer to deliver the goods you need to a location of your choice at a lower price. It’s worth bearing in mind as you may be able to squeeze even more profits out of your purchases by letting Direct Liquidation handle the logistics.
The Advantages Of Buying By The Truckload
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We’ve already touched on some of the advantages of buying by the truckload as opposed to by single pallet. On top of the savings you’ll enjoy thanks to the reduced shipping costs associated with buying by the truckload and the savings you’ll make by negotiating a bigger discount with the liquidators, there are also additional benefits.
By buying truckloads of goods from a respected liquidation platform such as Direct Liquidation, you’ll have peace of mind in knowing that the pallets of merchandise you buy will not have been cherry-picked first.
Unfortunately, cherry picking is an all-too-common problem in the liquidation industry. Unscrupulous liquidators who say they are partner companies with some of the nation’s biggest retailer very rarely are. Instead, they acquire their stock from other sources, pick out the best stuff from the pallets they purchase and then pass off what’s left as top-quality stock. It’s anything from it. They even go so far as to change manifests to give off the impression that pallets contain a good mix of merchandise. Sometimes they don’t even have the pallets of goods they advertise; instead, they take a business’s money and then source the pallet afterward, often leading to delays in delivery and pallets not living up to a buyer’s expectations when they eventually turn up.
Secondly, a top-tier liquidator offers quality assurance. A company such as Direct Liquidation is a genuine partner platform for Walmart liquidations, for example, offering this titan of the retail world a platform to sell its customer returns, overstock and closeouts to business customers at prices they won’t find anywhere else.
By offering platforms for big retailers such as Walmart, Target, and Best Buy to sell their customer returns, overstock and closeouts, top-tier liquidators can offer customers some of the best merchandise around, coming from some of the most trusted names in manufacturing such as Apple, Samsung, and Sony. And because no middle man has siphoned off the good stuff, there will be plenty of ‘as new’, boxed products in each pallet on your truckload to sell through to your customers.
Add to this a constant supply of stock and access to a dedicated team of liquidation specialists who will work with you to make sure you get the stock you need for your business as and when you need it at the best price possible, and it’s not hard to see why buying truckloads of liquidated stock from a reputable liquidator is an attractive prospect.
And, best of all, because you’re buying truckloads of goods, most top-tier liquidators are happy to hear your offer on an overall price for the truckload you intend to buy. If they agree, you’ll save even more money, and that will help your business maximize its profits.
A Network Of Easy-To-Access Distribution Centers
If you’re looking for the best place to buy truckloads of liquidated stock near you, we recommend you check out Direct Liquidation’s online liquidation marketplace. Direct Liquidation offers a platform where Walmart sells its customer returns, overstock and closeouts to businesses such as yours, and Direct Liquidation also offers pallets of top-quality merchandise from a great many other sources as well. Located next to major highways for ease of access, and in close proximity to its partner’s distribution centers so merchandise is only minutes away, Direct Liquidation’s network of distribution centers can be found in the following locations: Blacksburg, South Carolina Bentonville, Arkansas Greenfield, Indiana Brampton, Ontario Frankfort, Kentucky Rogers, Arkansas
Most customers opt to pick up their purchases of overstock, closeouts and customer return pallets from Direct Liquidation, or use a courier carrier to do it for them. However, we would recommend checking out the company’s shipping and handling price as it may work out they can offer to deliver the goods you need to a location of your choice at a lower price. It’s worth bearing in mind as you may be able to squeeze even more profits out of your purchases by letting Direct Liquidation handle the logistics.