How can i go about liquidating (selling as a buyout) my entire EBAY clothing store in a week or two?

[turtleswares17]

I've gotten behind on bills due to bad planning which i truly regret and now that I've lost my cars engine I cannot work as an ebay reseller and am looking to sell my entire ebay clothing store worth $32,000 on ebay including 1481 items for $2 each being $2962 along with 4 heavy duty metal husky racks with custom 5 shelves (using extra husky rack to give extra shelf to the 4 racks) and 130+ long boxes to fit on the shelving for only $700 extra and more than open to any offers on everything, located in wyoming grand rapids MI. I have put this ad on fb marketplace and I plan to advertise it to as many fb groups that are reselling focused, is there any other places i can advertise this lot? would craigslist even be worth trying? Is there specific people I could reach out to? I am beyond desperate to get this sold as I'm broke and need to get caught up on rent so I am not evicted while searching for getting atleast 2 new jobs nearby i would work 90 hours any job to get out of this mess, and hopefully a cheap car that will expand my search range from any place i can get to on the bus/biking distance to anywhere i can drive nearby. if I cannot get this sold in the coming few weeks I may be evicted and entering homelessness if the govnt cannot assist me with temporary housing or nonprofit rent coverage for a month or two, and with a storage unit full of stuff I cannot sell charging $300 a month that i do not have and without a car to get to different places, I really need this sold ASAP. Any responses appreciated

[toysaver]

One option is to offer free shipping.  Used clothing/fashion is not an in-demand product and an oversaturated market.  People that really need clothes can get them for free or find them for a couple bucks with no shipping charges.   Another option is to sell in lots and auction the stuff off.  

used clothing washed up on a beach

[slippinjimmy]

Why have you not considered listing a bulk lot on eBay?

If you want to reach re-sellers it seem obvious that you would look amongst the 5 or 6 million US sellers that are right here.

Of course expecting to make that kind of sale in "a week or two" is probably impossible.

[pickapaper]

@turtleswares17 

I am so sorry to hear of your situation.  I hope things work out for you soon.

I don't know about Michigan but where I live there are programs that offer assistance to people who are having a temporary financial problem.  I know the Salvation Army and some of the churches (you don't have to belong to qualify), and other places I'm not sure of, will help with rent, utilities, food, etc. for a month or two.   The town I live in has a Facebook page and people sometimes post there asking about temporary help (this is where I found out about these programs) so if your town has a similar FB page, you might post there about places in your area that offer temporary financial help.    

Best wishes to you. 

[cambriachick]

You have already discounted your listings 50%, I don't know if additional discounting will really increase your sales.  What you need is to get people to see your listings. I don't know if you can revise your promorional rate easily, but if you increased it to say, 20-25%, I think eBay would get your items in front of people.  Worth a try if you can use bulk editing.  Good luck.

[meme6253]

Sorry for your situation, I wish you the best!

[luckythewinner]

How can i go about liquidating (selling as a buyout) my entire EBAY clothing store in a week or two?

You cannot sell your "store" because eBay does not allow people to sell eBay accounts. 

If you want to sell your entire inventory on eBay at once, you would probably need to take down your 1400+ listings and create a single listing describing your entire inventory. 

You would probably want to make it a local pickup listing, because shipping would be expensive.

Also be aware that other resellers will look at your account and realize they are buying "leftovers" ... the stuff you listed that you had listed but no one had bought yet. So their offering price may not be what you expect.

[turtleswares17]

I could list a bulk lot of all my items on ebay i was considering i just wasnt sure people in my area would see it but its worth a try, if you mean shipping out bulk lots that would be difficult without a vehicle I can take a bus that leads to my storage for $1.75 which is great but then an uber or lyft ride to the post office is $15 and another $1.75 home, I would have to put alot of time into potentially not getting the lots sold while I'm almost flat broke and need to be securing a new job or jobs asap. Getting rid of my $300 storage unit will help me massively aswell if I can get it all sold at once, I've got myself in a bad pickle to think a few weeks ago I was starting to make  $800 profit a week but I had fallen too far behind on cash not working enough and should have gotten a new full time job when that happened so I wouldn't have to be selling my entire store

[caldreamer]

Since time is running out your best bet is to contact emergency relief agency in Michigan.   You can phone 211 and get emergency relief with rent and other services.   Or you can Google rental assistance in Michigan and go to government website.

Don't think of it as a handout because you paid taxes for many years to support these programs so they would be there should you need them.

Good luck to you...

[turtleswares17]

I don't think additional promotional will help me sell enough if I'm this far behind since ebay wants to see new items posted in your store daily, the punishment I get for not listing new clothing daily is absolutely massive id say less than 30% the same amount of customers based on the sales I get. I've set my shipping to 7 days so I can save $20 going to ship every day or every other day in hope I can get the entire lot sold, maybe still trying to make it out and ship every other day will bring me more money but I will be wasting hours of job search time while I'm trying to sell it all anyhow and get 2 new jobs. Its hard to tell if that will be worth since when I'm not listing stuff ebay nosedives my store

[fern*wood]

I'm so sorry about your situation.  Have you tried to sell your storage unit stash locally? 

[turtleswares17]

I really appreciate this reply I've hard a hard time figuring how I'm going to stay off the streets I've heard of nonprofits that may beable to help, section 8 is way backed up but worth applying, I need to figure how I can qualify for food bank if I need to coming up, I've heard churches helping lots of people but ive been trying to stay away from them as I'm not religious and I would feel so much guilt asking for help from them but I may just may have to soon, I'll look into salvation army and see if kentwood has a fb page I can ask for help coming up, this is very much appreciated thank you

[turtleswares17]

I appreciate it, and yes I'm trying to sell off everything local at this point since it's so much a uhaul will be needed to come get everything or I put in my ads I can rent the uhaul with a fee

[turtleswares17]

I was looking into 211 yesterday and this morning I will have to give them a call and see if I can get assistance to help while I'm getting 2 new jobs, I just hope they don't want to try and put me in a shelter if I have a chance to keep my apartment by working like a dog as many hours as much as I possibly can, to think some people choose to be homeless rather than get a hard job I would work any job I can get right now as many hours as i can stay awake, I'm going to walk down 44th street and my area which has lots of business's and go into every one and see if I can get a job, desperation sure does make you think about life differently, like that subway job I quit 5 years ago wasn't that bad compared to the 3 months I was homeless living out of my car. Id do anything to keep my apartment at this point

[mommaknows]

@turtleswares17  Here to send you strength to make it through this. Be the turtle that is known to adapt to life's challenges. 

🫂 You will find a way.