Sell warehouse stock: the floor empty on the date, and the paperwork first
When a warehouse floor has to be empty on a fixed date, the first question is not price but control. Who sees your stock list, and what happens to the lot afterwards, is settled before any figure: a mutual NDA before the list, and a purchase contract that forbids us to resell into your home market. The firm price, the payment before loading and the date the floor is clear all follow from there.
- Mutual NDA before the first stock list
- The purchase contract forbids us to resell into your home market
- Full payment by bank transfer before the first truck reaches the dock
- A firm price within 48 hours, collection arranged by us
Why the loading window comes after the paperwork
Time pressure does not reorder the steps. Before you name us a single article, the mutual NDA and the purchase contract are on the table, including the clause that forbids us to resell into your home market. The reason is practical: a loading window can be moved, a lot that resurfaces discounted in your home market cannot be pulled back.
That gives your management something checkable before the clearance starts, rather than the assurance of a caller. Which documents belong to it is set out in the overview of the model. What binds is always the version you sign.
- Paperwork first, collection date second, even on a short deadline
- The NDA on your own template if you prefer, so your legal team does not have to draft a new one
- The stock list goes out only after signature, and only then do we see the lot
Deadlines that make a floor have to be empty
In these cases the starting point is not a goods problem but a date in a contract or a project plan. The stock is simply whatever is still standing on the floor on that date.
The settlement follows that date: a firm price within 48 hours of the stock list, full payment before loading, collection inside the agreed window.
- The lease on the warehouse space runs out and is not renewed
- A move to a new warehouse, and the old stock is not going with it
- A change of logistics provider, where the new contract prices old stock expensively
- A reorganisation of the storage programme, and the floor is needed for current goods
- Goods sitting at an external logistics provider and tying up pallet spaces there
What we take on at collection
You have one contact, and that contact also speaks to your site and to your logistics provider. Collection is arranged by us: we instruct the carrier and agree the window with your side. Your team does not have to gather freight quotes or hunt for loading capacity.
The order at the end is fixed: full payment first, then loading. The money is in your account before our first truck enters the yard.
- One contact for your site and for your provider
- Collection from the warehouse with a carrier instructed by us
- The window agreed with your own scheduling team
- A loading window built around the date the floor has to be clear
A clearance is not the same as an insolvency
A solvent company clearing a floor has something an estate does not: time to choose, and no third party whose approval is needed. That changes the sequence rather than the terms. Here the deadline sets the pace, and the paperwork still comes first.
If the goods are being realised out of an estate, the insolvency page is the better starting point, because the steps around approval and documentation are different. If the lot is mainly footwear, the footwear page describes how a lot is read before a number is named. The terms are the same on all of them.
What the next few days look like
Enquiry and reply
You name the category, the approximate volume, and the date by which the floor has to be clear. A buyer replies within one working day. Article numbers and the exact site stay with you at this stage.
NDA and resale restriction
A mutual NDA, on your template if you prefer. In the same step the resale is settled: the purchase contract forbids us to resell into your home market. Only then do we see your list.
Firm price for the whole lot
Within 48 hours of the complete stock list you have a firm price for the lot as a whole. We do not pick out sizes, models or colours. The figure itself is named in the conversation.
Payment, then collection
The full purchase price arrives by bank transfer before loading, documented by invoice and delivery note. Collection from your warehouse is arranged by us and scheduled around the date the floor has to be free.
Name the date, and we will work back from it
For the first reply, three facts are enough: category, approximate volume from 1,000 units, and the date the floor has to be clear. A buyer replies within one working day and settles the NDA before you send anything. We do not ask what you want for the lot.
Three facts are enough: category, approximate volume from 1,000 units, and the date the space has to be free.
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
The floor has to be clear in two weeks. Is that realistic?
The sequence is what decides it, not the pace. The NDA and the contract come first, then the stock list, then a firm price within 48 hours of that list, then payment, then loading. Nothing in that chain has to wait on a third party, which is why a short deadline is workable. What we will not do is move the loading in front of the payment to save a day.
Do we have to sort, count or repack before collection?
No. The list should describe the lot as it actually stands on the floor, including broken size runs and packaging that has been moved several times. A known condition costs you less in the conversation than a surprise at the dock, and your people do not have to touch the goods for us.
The goods are at an external logistics provider, not on our own site. Does that work?
Yes, and it is a common case. We speak to the provider directly once you have introduced us, agree the loading window with them, and instruct the carrier ourselves. What we need from you is the release, not the coordination.
Can you take part of the floor and leave the rest?
We buy the lot as a whole within our profile, which is new footwear and sports apparel from tier-1 brands from 1,000 units. If the floor also holds categories outside that profile, we say so on the first working day and price only what is inside it, rather than quoting on goods we have no way to value.
Who learns that we are clearing?
Not from us. The lot is not listed, not advertised and not shown around a distribution list. The mutual NDA sits before the first stock list, binds both sides, and continues to apply if no purchase follows. Externally we speak about category, volume and country, nothing more.