ROBERT SCOTTSCOMMERCE

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Guides for people with stock to shift

Written by the people who sell it. Real rates, real fee structures and the numbers behind the offers you get quoted.

How to Sell Excess Stock in the UK: Every Option
The seven realistic routes for excess stock in the UK, what each one actually pays, and how to tell which is worth doing with the stock you have.
8 minute read
Bulk Stock Clearance UK: The Options Compared
Clearance buyer, auction house, live consignment or disposal. What each costs, how fast each is, and which suits which kind of stock.
8 minute read
Liquidation vs Consignment: Which Pays More
Liquidation pays you once, today, at the buyer's price. Consignment pays a share of what every item makes. The maths on the same pallet.
7 minute read
What Clearance Buyers Pay for Pallets, and Why
Published research puts liquidation recovery at five to thirty percent of retail. Where those numbers come from and what moves them.
7 minute read
Auction House Fees Explained for UK Sellers
Seller commission is only half of what an auction house takes. The buyer premium comes out of your hammer price too. The real numbers.
8 minute read
What to Do With Customer Returns Pallets
Returns pallets get the lowest offers because nobody knows what is in them. Why that is, what it costs you, and the two ways round it.
7 minute read
How to Value Excess Stock Before You Sell It
Cost price is sunk and retail price is fantasy. A practical method for working out what dead stock is worth, using numbers you can check.
7 minute read
How to Clear a Warehouse of Dead Stock
A practical order of operations for clearing a warehouse: what to move first, what to bin, and how to avoid paying twice for the same pallet.
7 minute read
What Happens to Stock That Does Not Sell
The question every consignor forgets until it is too late. Who pays to move unsold goods, who stores them, and how to make the answer nobody.
6 minute read
Consignment Agreement: Ten Things to Check First
Before a pallet of your stock leaves the building, these are the ten points worth having in writing. Most disputes come from three of them.
7 minute read
eBay Live Selling for Brands: How It Actually Works
Live selling moves stock faster than listings because it removes the search step. What a show is, why it suits clearance, what it costs.
7 minute read
Selling End of Line Stock Without Damaging Your Brand
Brands sit on dead stock out of fear, not economics. What actually causes brand damage in clearance, and how to avoid all of it.
6 minute read
Selling Lost Property and Unclaimed Goods
Transport operators, storage firms and venues all hold goods nobody collects. How that stock gets sold properly, and what it makes.
6 minute read

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