For sellers
What to send, and when
The categories that recover, the timing that lifts price, and how to prepare pallets or removals. A practical guide to liquidating inventory the smart way.
Two consignors send the same value of goods and recover very different money. The difference is what they sent, when they sent it, and the state it arrived in.
What recovers well
The weekly auction has an active market across tools and hardware, electronics, home and kitchen, furniture, appliances, automotive parts, sporting goods, health and personal care, and trade categories from plumbing to electrical to pool equipment. Within any category the pattern holds:
- Recognizable beats generic. A known brand at a fraction of retail is the core of what buyers hunt here. - Complete beats stripped. A missing charger costs more than a missing box. - Working beats unknown. Testable goods earn confident bids. Untestable goods still sell, honestly carded. - Volume of the same item is welcome. The market absorbs quantity week after week.
Not sure a category fits? Ask before you ship. A two-line email saves a pallet travelling the wrong direction.
The timing lesson learned too late
Send out-of-season goods on-season. Almost nobody does, because inventory decisions get made when stock becomes a problem, not when it becomes valuable.
Patio sets, pool equipment and coolers recover best in spring, not in the October purge. Heaters, snow gear and holiday goods want the fall. If your seasonal stock has just missed its window, plan the consignment now and ship at the turn of the season, or take a buyout today if carrying cost beats waiting.
Presentation lifts price before we touch it
- Send goods that do not look like garbage. Crushed boxes and dirt travel into the photos and the grade. Dry pallets and sound cartons pay for themselves in the hammer prices. - Keep like with like. Sorted pallets move through intake faster, so your goods hit the auction sooner. - Declare honestly. Your declaration is checked at receiving and variances are reconciled openly.
How to prepare and palletize
You get our palletizing guidelines when you apply. The essentials: stable, wrapped pallets; heavier items low; fragile flagged; each pallet labelled with your reference; and a pallet-level list of what is on it. Then book the truck, or let us coordinate the freight. Your job ends at the loading dock. What we handle from there
Cross-border returns and removals
If you are using us as your Canadian return or removal address, you do not need to palletize. Goods arrive as individual parcels and cartons straight from carriers and Amazon facilities, and that is exactly how we expect them. Once they hit our dock the processing is identical: every unit goes through the same intake, identity-minting and grading before it lists. Our Canadian return address
What not to send
Recalled and unsafe goods are pulled at inspection and never sold, whoever sends them. Prohibited and restricted items follow our published policy. When in doubt, ask first.
The feedback loop that makes you money
After your first cycle your account shows what sold, at what rate and for how much, by item and by category. Consignors who adjust on their own results are composing the next load on evidence.
Start when you are ready, or ask us first
Neither one commits you to anything. Most consignors do one, then the other.
Ready to go
Apply to consign
The consignment application. It asks what we need to receive, grade, and pay you correctly, and it is the same form whether you are sending one pallet or clearing a warehouse.
What happens after you apply
- 1Apply
- 2The seller desk reviews it
- 3You sign your consignment agreement
- 4We receive your goods
Not sure yet
Ask the seller desk
Send a short note before you commit. Tell us what you are moving and what you need to achieve, and we will tell you if we are the right home for it.
- A person reads every inquiry.
- For your security, banking details are collected only after you sign an agreement. We never ask for them by email.