How a stock lot leaves a warehouse: three routes, and who carries the price risk
A lot leaves a warehouse by one of three routes: a public platform, a chain of intermediaries, or a buyer purchasing on its own account. Before any goods are discussed here, a document comes first: a mutual NDA, and the clause that forbids us to resell into your home market. Both sit on this page, open, before you show us a list. The three routes themselves differ in two unglamorous points, not in tone of voice: who carries the price risk, and at what moment the money is in your account.
- Paperwork first: a mutual NDA before the stock list, and the clauses in extract
- Three routes out of the warehouse: public platform, chain of intermediaries, purchase on own account
- Two questions decide every route: who carries the price risk, and when the money lands
- From here: the page that matches your goods, your situation or your role
The three routes compared
We take the third route. We buy on our own account, not on commission and not as an agent. With the signature the price risk sits with us: whether the lot moves well or slowly afterwards changes nothing about your price. And the money is in your account before a truck stands at your dock.
That is also why this page carries no figure. A number you can rely on is made against a specific lot and named in the conversation, not printed in a table that would be identical for every lot.
- Public platform: the lot is visible to the market, and so is the price. The risk stays with you until it sells, and the money comes afterwards.
- Chain of intermediaries: your enquiry travels through several hands. You never learn who buys at the end, nobody in the chain carries risk, and that is exactly where deals collapse.
- Purchase on own account: one company, one contract, one contact. The price risk transfers on signature, and payment is made before loading.
Three documents, and what each one binds
Discretion is claimed by everyone in this trade. It only becomes checkable against a document you can read before the first conversation. That is why our paperwork sits here and not three clicks further in.
These are papers you can put in front of your own management before a single line of your stock list leaves the building.
- Mutual NDA. Signed before the stock list, not after it.
- Resale extract: the purchase contract forbids us to resell into your home market.
- Payment extract: the full purchase price arrives by bank transfer before the goods are loaded.
- The extracts are illustrative. Only the wording in the signed purchase contract is binding.
Who sits across the table: a buying company, not an agent
On the other side of the table sits the buyer itself: one company, one contract, one invoice, and a named buyer who stays the same person from the first message to the loading. Both sides check each other as companies before goods are discussed, and the register entry and the person who signs are disclosed on our side.
The decision to buy is made in our own house. We buy on our own account and carry the price risk ourselves; your lot is not passed on as an enquiry, and your stock list does not travel to an address you have never seen.
What we take on, and where we say no on the first working day
The profile is narrow: footwear and sports apparel from tier-1 brands, from 1,000 units per lot, out of overstock, cancelled orders, end of season, warehouse clearance or realisation in an insolvency. Anything outside that frame we decline within one working day, without a round of negotiation.
That is not posturing, it is the difference in the business model. A desk that accepts every category still has to find the buyer once your lot is already circulating in the market. A no on the first working day is worth more to you than a maybe that runs for weeks.
The right page: by goods, by situation, by role
This page explains the model and the terms. The detail sits where it belongs.
- Footwear: size runs, pairing and collection remnants in detail, plus the terms on the lot.
- Sneakers: models, colourways and release cycles.
- Sports apparel: textiles, size distribution and collection changeovers.
- A whole warehouse: when a floor or a site has to be empty by a fixed date.
- Cancelled orders: goods produced and never taken.
- End of season: late-season and run-out lines before the next changeover.
- Insolvency: private realisation from the estate, step by step.
- ESPR: unsold footwear and textiles, and what the European rule means for stock.
- Traders and colleagues: when you trade yourself and want to place a lot.
- What we do not buy: the categories we decline, with the reason for each.
What the next few days look like
Enquiry and reply
You name the brand or category, the approximate volume, and that you want to talk about selling. Nothing else is asked at this stage, and least of all a price expectation. A buyer replies within one working day.
Company checks and mutual NDA
Both sides check each other as companies, then the NDA is signed. Only after that do we talk about specific goods. That is the visible first step here, not a formality at the end.
Stock list
You send the list of the lot. It stays in our house, is not circulated in the market and is not passed on as an offer. The NDA continues to cover that list even if no purchase follows.
Firm price and settlement
Within 48 hours of a complete stock list you receive a firm price for the whole lot. After your approval the full purchase price arrives before loading; collection is arranged by us. If you decide against it, it ends there at no cost.
A conversation before a single article number leaves the building
Tell us the brand or category and the approximate volume. A buyer replies within one working day, settles the NDA, and says plainly whether the lot fits the profile. A phone number is not needed for the first step.
Three facts are enough: brand or category, approximate volume from 1,000 units, and whether you want to talk about selling.
Received. Your offer is being prepared.
A buyer comes back to you within one business day, with a firm offer within 48 hours. Everything is handled under NDA.
Common questions
Where do the goods go?
There is a clear rule in the contract about your market: the purchase contract forbids us to resell into your home market. That point sits here as an extract before you show us anything, and it becomes binding with the signed purchase contract. Everything beyond that is our problem: we buy on our own account, the price risk sits with us from the signature, and your lot does not travel through the market as an enquiry.
Will my customers, my sales team or my competitors hear about it?
Not from us. The lot is not listed, not advertised and not offered around a distribution list. The mutual NDA comes before the first stock list, binds both sides, and continues to apply even if no deal follows.
Do I have to send prices or a price expectation?
No. We do not ask what you want for the lot, and there is no field for it. Whoever makes you name a figure first will then negotiate against that figure. We assess the lot and put the number on the table; the decision after that is yours.
When does the money arrive?
Before loading. The full purchase price is transferred before the goods leave your warehouse, documented by invoice and delivery note. No commission, no payment terms after receipt of goods, no cash.
What happens if I do not agree with the price?
Then it ends there, at no cost and with no obligation. You keep a number you can rely on for your own internal decision, and the stock list stays under the NDA. The firm price is made against a specific lot and current demand, and it is named in the conversation rather than in a form.
Why does a direct buyer pay more than a chain of intermediaries?
Because every station in a chain takes a margin and none of them carries the price risk. The lot travels on as an enquiry, and if the deal breaks in the middle you do not even learn where. Your stock list has been sitting at addresses you never saw. We buy on our own account: one company, one contract, one invoice.
From what volume is a lot interesting to you?
From 1,000 units per lot, with the focus on footwear and sports apparel from tier-1 brands. Below that, or outside those product groups, we decline rather than keep you in review for weeks.