10-04-2017
05:20 PM
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10-04-2017
06:12 PM
by
kh-jean
I used to run an online sports merhcandise website and we closed it down a few years ago. I have 4,400+ items that I want to unload but I am having a hard time figuring out a way to get in front of ebay sellers like yourselves who might be interested in it. Is there a website where you all go to find liquidation assets? I've tried Craigslist but no bites. Is there a forum or anything out there to connect scrappy sellers like you with someone like me who wants to unload a bunch of stuff? Any direction is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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10-04-2017 05:36 PM
I'd think you could wholesale your inventory right on eBay. Sellers are always browsing the listings in the areas they also sell in, so they would be seeing what you offer here. If interested, you should get sales from them.
Make sure your title lets then know your listing is for a Liquidation Wholesale Lot of 50 Arkansas Razorbacks souvenier items..... or divide into lots of 100 key rings or 250 ball caps, etc. I'd think that for this purpose, letting them know that it's a liquidation wholesale lot will catch their eye even more than seeing the listing is for this, that, or whatever. It would be pretty hard to find somebody willing to buy you out of all your inventory, but in goodly-sized chunks, I'd think you could get rid of everything.
Your big thing is going to be... you'll have to price your merchandise cheap enough to make it attractive enough for THEM to take the chance, to buy and take it off your hands. Then you will be free of it, and they will be the ones trying to peddle this stuff by individual pieces on eBay.
But good timing, I think. From the glance I did, it looks like much NCAA stuff, and now is the time to push it with football heading heavy into the conference play, still some minor sports going on, and basketball coming up in another couple of months or so.
10-04-2017 05:36 PM
I'd think you could wholesale your inventory right on eBay. Sellers are always browsing the listings in the areas they also sell in, so they would be seeing what you offer here. If interested, you should get sales from them.
Make sure your title lets then know your listing is for a Liquidation Wholesale Lot of 50 Arkansas Razorbacks souvenier items..... or divide into lots of 100 key rings or 250 ball caps, etc. I'd think that for this purpose, letting them know that it's a liquidation wholesale lot will catch their eye even more than seeing the listing is for this, that, or whatever. It would be pretty hard to find somebody willing to buy you out of all your inventory, but in goodly-sized chunks, I'd think you could get rid of everything.
Your big thing is going to be... you'll have to price your merchandise cheap enough to make it attractive enough for THEM to take the chance, to buy and take it off your hands. Then you will be free of it, and they will be the ones trying to peddle this stuff by individual pieces on eBay.
But good timing, I think. From the glance I did, it looks like much NCAA stuff, and now is the time to push it with football heading heavy into the conference play, still some minor sports going on, and basketball coming up in another couple of months or so.
10-04-2017
05:37 PM
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10-04-2017
07:00 PM
by
kh-jean
That said, you list the items on eBay and let anyone buy them. Large lots at a decent price might attract existing eBay sellers who deal in merchandise of the type you have.
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10-04-2017 05:45 PM
10-04-2017 06:00 PM
10-04-2017 06:02 PM
Back in the day, I saw whole stores listed on ebay for sale - local pick up only.
10-04-2017 06:12 PM
10-04-2017 06:29 PM
@slingshotcw wrote:I used to run an online sports merhcandise website and we closed it down a few years ago. I have 4,400+ items that I want to unload but I am having a hard time figuring out a way to get in front of ebay sellers like yourselves who might be interested in it. Is there a website where you all go to find liquidation assets? I've tried Craigslist but no bites. Is there a forum or anything out there to connect scrappy sellers like you with someone like me who wants to unload a bunch of stuff? Any direction is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Find a local Auction House ...
10-04-2017 06:37 PM
post it on ebay with a reasonable starting price and best offer I used to see and look for store inventories all the time. Most sellers wanted too high of a % but I have bought a whole ebay store before so its been done. Helps if your store shows a history of the merchandice moving. I havent run that search in a while so you just motivated me to look and see whats out there
10-04-2017 06:48 PM
Your merchandise will need to have UPC numbers. If they do not you will have a hard time moving them to an online seller as eBay as well as Amazon both will be requiring that number for sports merchandise. If it does not have a UPC number it probably is not a licensed item as well.
Good Luck Selling!
10-05-2017 09:27 AM
@allstar-comics wrote:post it on ebay with a reasonable starting price and best offer
It has to be one or the other. If it has a starting price, meaning it is auction format; it can't have Best Offer. If it has Best Offer, then it is a fixed price listing, and there is no such thing as a starting price; because the asking price is the price.
10-05-2017 06:02 PM
@nowthatsjustducky wrote:
@allstar-comics wrote:post it on ebay with a reasonable starting price and best offer
It has to be one or the other. If it has a starting price, meaning it is auction format; it can't have Best Offer. If it has Best Offer, then it is a fixed price listing, and there is no such thing as a starting price; because the asking price is the price.
Love the nit-pickers here --- even when they are wrong
A FP listing can have a "reasonable starting price" --- you know, what you would love to get --- then the Best Offer can be used to be realistic ...
02-18-2018
03:14 AM
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02-18-2018
08:14 AM
by
kh-stanley1
Hello,
Do you still have merchandise to sell?
Rob