Sell overstock shoes: what the size run, the boxes and the depth do to a lot
Before you show us a single line of your stock list, we sign a mutual NDA, and the purchase agreement bars us from reselling the goods in your home market. The full purchase price is in your account before anything leaves your warehouse. From 1,000 pairs, your firm number comes within 48 hours of us seeing the list, and collection is arranged by us.
- Mutual NDA signed before any stock list is disclosed
- The purchase agreement bars us from reselling the goods in your home market
- 100% payment before the goods leave your warehouse
- Firm offer within 48 hours of the full stock list, from 1,000 pairs, collection arranged by us
A firm number, or a bid you find out about afterwards
There are two ways a lot gets priced. In the first, a buyer takes a position, names a number and stands behind it in writing. In the second, the lot is exposed to a market and the number is discovered by bidding, which means it does not exist at the moment you decide to sell. Both models are legitimate. They are not the same product, and they do not put the same risk on you.
An auction based channel cannot hand you a firm price in advance, because the price is the output of the process, not the input. Until the bidding closes, the price risk is yours, and settlement normally follows the platform collecting from its winning bidders. That is a structural property of the model, not a criticism of anyone running it. Ask any channel these three questions before you list anything.
- Do I know my number before the goods leave my warehouse, or only after?
- Between my decision to sell and the moment the price is fixed, who carries the price risk?
- When does the money reach me: before collection, or after the channel has been paid by its own buyers?
The lot size the big platforms route into self-serve
The large disposal platforms are built for enterprise volume, and they are honest about it: below a certain company size, sellers are pointed at the self-serve product, where you upload the lot, list it and manage the process yourself. A normal distributor or retailer lot sits under that line, so it gets handled by software rather than by a person who can commit to a price before the goods move.
A lot from 1,000 pairs is exactly the size this desk handles personally: one named buyer, a direct line and a purchase agreement, not a queue and a dashboard. Shoe lots are never uniform, so size curve, the split between running, court and lifestyle, and the share of broken sizes all move the number, and we read that from your list instead of asking you to explain it.
- From 1,000 pairs, tier-1 sport and lifestyle footwear, one named buyer per lot.
- Overstock, end of season stock and insolvency stock all fit, as long as the lot moves as one block.
- What sits outside that profile has its own page, so you can rule us out in a minute.
Read the paperwork before you name a single brand
Discretion is easy to promise and impossible to verify from a website, so the documents that govern the deal are available before you disclose anything: the mutual NDA, the resale restriction clause and the payment term.
We are new as a desk, and we would rather be judged on what we are willing to sign than on numbers nobody can verify. Take these to your legal team first. If a clause needs to be tighter for your side, say so before you sign, not after. The internal case for the sale, what legal, finance and sales each need in front of them, is set out in full on our excess inventory page for apparel, and it reads the same way for footwear.
- A mutual NDA, signed before disclosure. It covers your identity, your brands, your volumes and the fact that the discussion is happening at all, and it binds both sides equally, so you can show it to your own people.
- A resale restriction in the purchase agreement. The purchase agreement bars us from reselling the goods in your home market.
- A payment term. The full purchase price reaches your account before the goods are collected.
- You read the actual wording with your legal team before anything is signed, rather than a summary of it on a landing page.
About the number
Your firm number is prepared against current demand. It comes in the call, not from a form. We publish no ranges and no percentages, because a published range is either useless to you or a lever against you in the negotiation, and both are worse than one honest conversation with the person who signs.
How long that number stands depends on the lot and on the market, and we tell you where we are on the call instead of printing a shelf life here. If demand moves while you are taking it to whoever has to approve it internally, we re-quote openly and explain why, rather than trimming the price quietly at collection. Nothing in this obliges you to sell.
One named buyer, from the first message to the payment
The same person signs the NDA, makes the offer call and stands behind the collection date. Name, face and direct line are on this page, our company registration is published so you can check the entity before you sign anything, and you can reach us by email or WhatsApp. A phone number from you is optional, and you get a reply within one working day.
Before you deal with us, or with anyone else in this trade, run the buyer through the six checks we set out on our sneaker stocklots page. If you would rather handle all of this in German, the same desk has a German page for footwear overstock.
What the next few days look like
You write, a buyer answers
Brand or category and roughly how many pairs is enough to start. No stock list, no documents, no price expectations. A named buyer replies to you directly.
Mutual NDA, then the list
The NDA is signed before you disclose anything: your identity, your brands, your volumes and the fact that you are selling at all. Only then do we ask for the stock list.
Firm offer, in a call
You get a firm number for the whole lot, together with the clause under which the purchase agreement bars us from reselling the goods in your home market. You hear the number in a call, with the reasoning behind it, and nothing at that point obliges you to sell.
Payment, then collection
The full purchase price is received in your account before the goods move. Collection is arranged by us, on a date you confirm. Your part ends at the loading dock.
Start with a category, not a stock list
Tell us the brands or the category and roughly how many pairs are sitting there. The mutual NDA is signed before anything sensitive is disclosed, a named buyer replies within one working day, and you are under no obligation at any point in the process.
Three questions only: brand or category, whether the lot is from 1,000 pairs, and whether you want to talk about selling it. No price expectation, no stock list and no documents at this stage.
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
Could my goods reappear at a discount on my own market?
Not without breaking the contract. The purchase agreement bars us from reselling the goods in your home market, and it binds the party that actually buys your lot: us. It is a clause your legal team can read before you sign, not a reassurance in an email.
Who finds out that we are selling?
Nobody outside the two of us. The mutual NDA covers your identity, your brands, your volumes and the existence of the discussion itself, and it is signed before any stock list is disclosed. It binds both sides, so it is a document you can put in front of your own management rather than a promise you have to take on trust. We publish no prices, no ranges and no seller names.
Where does the stock go?
That is our risk to carry, not yours. We buy for our own account, so once payment has landed, placing the lot is our problem to solve. The part of it that is contractual for you is this: the purchase agreement bars us from reselling the goods in your home market. We do not run a public marketplace, and the number you are given is ours to stand behind rather than something a bidding process has to produce first.
Do I have to send prices or tell you what we want for the lot?
No. There is no price field in the form and we never ask what you hope to get. That question only ever works against the seller, because whatever number you name becomes the ceiling of the conversation. We read the lot from your stock list and put our own number on the table first.
When do we get paid?
Before the goods move. The full purchase price is received in your account prior to collection, and that wording sits in the purchase agreement, not in our marketing. No payment on delivery, no payment once it sells, no 60 day terms.
What if I do not agree with your number?
Then you keep it as a benchmark and we part on good terms. The offer costs nothing, carries no obligation, and works as a benchmark against any other bid on the table. It also has one property an auction result does not: it is a firm number in your hand before the goods leave your warehouse, so you can weigh it against what a bidding process might return without carrying that risk to find out.
Why would a direct buyer pay more than a chain of brokers?
Because every intermediary between you and the end market has to earn on the way through, and that margin comes out of your number. It also costs you certainty: deals in the middle collapse when someone cannot fund the purchase, or your list travels further than you intended while you wait. We buy for our own account and pay before collection, so there is one price, one counterparty and one signature.