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While shipping prices fluctuate with the price of fuel, there are a few other reasons why shipping costs may vary from one auction to the next.

What To Know Before You Ship

Getting shipping specifications...

Ways To Lower Shipping Costs

Knowing Economies Of Scale

Having an online business is great! Buying and selling within the comfort of your own home, or on the go can certainly make your life a little less complicated and a bit more relaxed.

Trade Shows and Conferences

Go to them. Speak at them.

Developing a Sourcing Strategy

Sourcing & Market Research

Most questions, especially from new buyers, pertain to shipping. Sometimes the cost can be overwhelming, as it does impact your profit margins. So, as you navigate the world of freight, here are a few terms you should know.

Freight Terminology For Beginners

Everything you need to know

A good friend of mine, who has been in the wholesale/retail industry for over 30 years told me, You make your money when you buy, not when you sell

A Buyers Experience: Making Money

Make Money When You Buy

“Is there an ideal product to sell regardless of experience and/or location?” This is a question we’re often asked, and we’ve heard discussed amongst our audience.

The Best Product to Sell Right Now

Is there such a thing?

Having spent hundreds of thousands on countless transactions on Liquidation.com over the past couple of years, it has become one of my routine go-to places for sourcing inventory. But how to be sure you are getting the best deal at the best possible price without being ripped off into fluffed listing that will lose money?

A Buyer’s Experience: Strategy

From Bidding to Shipping

A Buyer’s Experience: Descriptions

Merchandise Conditions

A Buyer’s Experience: Sellers

My Go-To Sellers of Choice

After the time spent on growing your business into an established company, there are new obstacles you’ll be faced with that will come down to your inventory and management.

Tips for Established Businesses

5 tips you ought to know

Exclusive Brand Reselling

Be the go-to reseller for top retailers

The biggest advantage of selling on Amazon is the buying culture of their users. Customers don’t come to Amazon to shop, they come to buy

Selling Products

Private vs Established Listings

The way Millennials buy furniture is vastly different from the buying habits and patterns of older generations.

Appeal to Millennials

Simple Furniture Updates

HWhether you’re sourcing through liquidation channels, or being a distributor for a supplier, selling a product range could prove valuable for your company in terms of reputation and overall growth.

Selling the Product Range

Great Profit Potential

How to sell products online is a simple skill to learn, but hard to master. The internet has made it easy to connect buyers and sellers. With growing competition, it’s important to always be one step ahead of other competitors in your retail space.

Building a broad catalog of sources

Keep your business growing

What to Know When Approaching Suppliers

Who, What, Where, When?

Over the years it seems as though the Back-to-School movement has turned into a Holiday. Perhaps more of a Holiday for the parents than the kids, but a Holiday-like season nonetheless.

Back-To-School: The New Holiday?

School Season Shopping Fever

If your company is successfully selling Private Labels – well done! It’s not always an easy task, and many companies fail to even get this branch of merchandise off the ground.

The Flaws in Private Labeling

Is it more luck than skill?

Every business runs differently – from the merchandise to condition to resell channels. It’s how each business thrives in their own way that really sets them apart from their competition.

Private Labels

What, Why and How – Questions Answered

TeBay is a great resell channel as it brings buyers and sellers from around the world into a single eCommerce environment to sell merchandise. To ensure they operate a reputable platform, public feedback is strongly encouraged on the buyers so other buyers know what to except.

Sell like an eBay Pro

Start winning sales – not losing sales

There are a variety of methods to sourcing: some research the top selling channels to see what products are selling and then find sources to purchase the merchandise for maximum profits, while others find sourcing providers for certain merchandise they know the most about.

What to look for in a Supplier

Source what you know

When pallets have large products, processing and listing the inventory can be rather straight-forward, but when pallets contain hundreds of small pieces how can you effectively process and list?

What You Need To Know On Sorting Pallets

Be efficient – time is money!

No one goes into business hoping they don’t make money – making money is the most important goal of any business. Since it’ll take time to make profits as you build a new business, there are many factors you should be aware of from the start to ensure profitability is around the corner and not years down the road.

How to Calculate your profitability

Make money, make money!

Depending on the volume of merchandise you sell, you may simply relist items that don’t sell on the first go and hope the second time around sells. However, if the item continues not to sell, you’ll need to make some changes to give your listing a boost. As with all companies, when metrics or sales worsen it’s time to look at what you’ve been doing to see if the problem is glaring back at you.

Move Merchandise Quickly

Tips & Tricks to Increase Cycle Time

Flea markets are filled with budget-conscious buyers looking to score a deal on items in any condition. If reselling online hasn’t worked for your business, reselling a flea markets may be a great avenue to take your business to the next step!

Tip For Selling at Flea Markets

Benefits & Tips for Selling Locally

Starting a business can be quite lucrative whether you’re doing it full-time or on the side of a steady salary job until it takes off, however, there are costs associated with getting off the ground that needs to be considered as you get started.

Costs Associated With Getting Started

Make these investments

Tags on clothing are an automatic boost to your profits as you’re able to list your item as ‘New with Tags’ (NWT), but what if those tags say ‘Last Chance’ or ‘As-Is’? Do you remove the tag, keep the tag or black out the text on the tag?

Last Chance Tags

How to resell with this label & more great tips!

Security Tags

How to remove without issue and damage to the product

Often times, when purchasing wholesale merchandise, the accessories may be missing from an otherwise great quality product. So, do you sell as-is, or do you source these accessories to complete the package?

Replacement Pieces

When to replace elements of a product

Whether it’s your first, or hundredth truckload purchase, sorting the merchandising can be overwhelming – especially when the truckload contains over 70K pieces…yikes!

Sorting Truckloads Tips For Success

Best process for sorting success

It’s a question most buyers of wholesale liquidation ask: Can I ship to a residential location? The answer is yes.

Shipping Residential

What to expect when shipping truckloads home

Printing Postage

A cost-effective solution for postage

Major Retailers often remove or damage labels, tags or UPC codes on their merchandise in a bid to ensure all overstock goods being sold in the secondary market are known. This prevents the reseller, or new end user from returning the item to the store for credit or a full refund.

Do You Have Defaced Merchandise?

Why it’s Done & How to Sell It

A lot happens between High School graduation and moving into the dorms. While the students are occupied with spending time with their friends before moving away, the parents are busy trying to get prepared with all the items their kid(s) will need in the dorms.

The Ultimate Dorm Checklist

Items students need for college

Graduation season is a becoming a big retail market for consumers – from gifts to gadgets needed for their next stage in life, there certainly will be a lot of money spent around graduation.

Trending Graduation Merchandise

Top ideas this season for grads!

As college grads prepare to leave the college space an enter “the real world,” the list of items needed to outfit their first apartment is a mile-long. Not only will grads be needing to purchase items that were once supplied to them by the dorms they will also be looking to upgrade and replace the essentials they used and abused while in school. Additionally, the first apartment checklist is also filled with those “oh yeah!” items that new grads don’t realize they even need until, well… they need them.

First Apartment Checklist

Items consumers need for their place

Graduation time presents many opportunities for increased sales. Here’s our tips for attaining heightened profits during Graduation season.

Upselling Graduation

Take advantage of the booming season!

The immediate benefits of sourcing online are obvious as there are savings in time, money and other resources. However, with so many options, buyers must learn to recognize partners who not only provide a consistent flow of quality merchandise but are also proven to be trustworthy.

The Top Benefits of Sourcing

Why Online Sourcing is Best

Ensure you’re getting the most for every piece of clothing you source, knowing how to make some of the simple repairs can go a long way to ensure you get the most for the article, but also saving the most by performing the repairs in-house as opposed to outsourcing.

How to Restore Clothing: The Easy Way

Simple Repairs you can do!

The rise of online sales has been taking its toll on brick and mortar stores, with 2017 seeing retailers filing bankruptcy at a record rate. When these stores close in your market, you can score a lot of merchandise at a deep discount.

Sourcing Locally

Tips & Tricks to Source from Store Closures

eBay is a leading reselling channel for buyers within the sourcing industry with its vast consumer traffic and low selling fees. But will you boost online sales if you offer free shipping, or will you lose money?

eBay: The Truth on Shipping Costs

Charge or offer it for free?

When buying Returns, merchandise may have store tags or sticker saying “Return”. Removing these can help increase your sales, and there are a few tricks on how to remove them without causing damage to the item.

Why are their Stickers on Returns

Remove or not when reselling?

As Earth Day approaches, millions of individuals and organizations across the globe are recognizing the importance of keeping our planet clean and ecologically safe. This is also a good time for organizations to reflect on their sustainability efforts and consider what can be enhanced or improved.

The History on the Reverse Supply Chain

A History. To Now.

Shipping costs will only seem to be higher as you’re buying more merchandise, however, when you parse it by pallet or package the shipping costs are reduced significantly. The savings from shipping go right to your bottom line, allowing you to invest more in the next shipment!

Shipping Consolidation For Cost Savings

Save more when you bundle

Arranging Your Own Shipping

Use your freight of choice

Before the world of the Reserve Supply Chain, Retailers were often faced with losing money on inventory and throwing it away to a landfill or recycling the little they could.

Be Friendly. Go and Re-Sell Green

Ways to be eco-friendly

Eliminate shipping costs entirely and pick up your transactions that are fulfilled by a Liquidation.com warehouse.

Picking up Transactions at our Warehouses

At 5 warehouses in North America

Factors Affecting Shipping Costs

By package, LTL & freight

Insider Bidding Tips: Continual Success

Maximize your efficiency

Listing Descriptions

Boost online sales with the right content

Insider Bidding Tips: Smart Bidding

Find the right auction to bid on

Insider Tip: How to Make a Light Tent

Best utility for taking quality photos

Boost Online Sales

Photography is key in all online listings

Home Improvement Resell Market

A secondary market opportunity

Difference in Social Channels

Which is right for you?

How to Process a Transaction

Now pay & ship your lot

The Recipe in Going Viral

Why do some ideas spread like crazy? Find out.

Social Key to Inform & Entertain

Get on the right approach

Social Selling Strategy Guide

Your customers are social

Understanding Auction Formats

Which format is right for you?

Buyer Feedback & Discounts

Customers are your future

Go Behind the Scenes

Liquidation.com in-house refurbishment centers

10 Back-To-School Tips

Sourcing in the Secondary market for B2S

Mannequins! The Perfect Clothing Model

Where to Acquire Mannequins

How to Bid

From single to multiple to proxy bidding

Add Auctions to Watchlist

Keep track of auctions before bidding

To Mannequin or Not to Mannequin?

Benefits & Types of Mannequins

Profits in the most Unlikely of Places

Turning profits on bad auctions

How to Get a Shipping Quote

Price shipping & consolidate

PS101: Rob Cyr

Sourcing Expert discusses liquidation

A Buyer’s Experience: Profiting

Selling for a Profit

How to Search

Broad, Basic and Filters to Find the right lot

A Buyer’s Experience: Bidding Tips

When & How to Bid

Resell Marketing 101

6 tactics to resell for maximum profits

A Buyer’s Experience: Returns

Expectations on Returns

Reading a Manifest

Understanding the codes & items in manifests

A Buyer’s Experience: Shelf Pulls

Money & Space Dynamic

How to Compare Auctions

View multiple auctions at a single time

A Buyer’s Experience: Resale Market

The Shelf Pull Resale Market

How to Calculate Costs of an Auction

Know the full purchase price

Craigslist as a Resell Channel

Pros, Cons & Fees of Craigslist

Insider Bidding Tips: Research

Learn everything before bidding

Amazon as a Resell Channel

Pros, Cons & Fees of Amazon

Understanding Payment Methods

Which is right for you?

Inside Tips: eBay as a Resell Channel

Pros, Cons & Fees of eBay

How to Manage Email Preferences

Get alerts and promo codes

Facebook as a Resell Channel

Pros, Cons & Fees

Understanding our Merchandise Conditions

A detailed overview of conditions

Profitability of Books

Profit over $1,000 a week with new & used books

3D Printers

Benefits of reselling & get to know the seller

Grades of Sony TVs

Grades gives insight into condition for resale

Insider Tips: How to Enable SMS Alerts

Get outbid alerts via text message

Camera Technology

Digital. Affordable. And in high demand

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