We buy sneaker stocklots: model and colourway are an address, even without a label
Your lot is never published, never forwarded and never shown to anyone before a mutual NDA is signed by both sides. The purchase agreement bars us from reselling the goods in your home market. Payment lands in full in your company account before a single pallet leaves your warehouse. Tell us what you are holding and a named specialist replies within one working day; the firm offer follows within 48 hours of the full stock list. Before any of that, run the six checks below on us.
- Mutual NDA signed before you disclose a single line of the stock list
- Payment in full to your company account before collection, not after
- Firm offer within 48 hours of the full stock list
- Sneakers and sports footwear, tier-1 brands, from 1,000 pairs upward
Five minutes to verify any buyer, including this one
Before you send anyone a stock list, run the same six checks on them. None of it takes longer than a coffee, none of it requires the other side to do anything but answer, and every answer is something you can forward internally without a follow-up call.
Apply it to us in the same five minutes. We publish it because it costs you nothing to run, and because a buying desk that cannot answer these six lines has told you something more useful than any promise it could make instead. If a line below comes back empty when you check it, that is the answer, and it applies to us exactly as it applies to everyone else.
- A registered legal entity you can look up yourself: legal name, registration number, VAT number, and an address that matches the register rather than a mailbox.
- A named person who owns the deal from the first message to the payment confirmation, not a shared inbox, not a group chat handle, not a rotating cast of account managers.
- Payment from the buyer's company bank account to your company bank account, credited before the goods leave your warehouse. Not on arrival. Not after inspection at destination. Not in cash.
- A mutual NDA that both sides sign before anything is disclosed, and a purchase agreement that bars the buyer from reselling the goods in your home market.
- No fee charged to you in any form for offering stock: no listing fee, no membership, no subscription, no success commission.
- No public listing of your lot anywhere: not on a marketplace, not in a messenger group, not in a mailing to a subscriber base.
Why the word stocklot leads somewhere loud
Search that word and you land in public listing boards, in subscription plans billed to the seller, and in messenger groups offering pallets at headline prices with no entity behind them that you can look up. A name in a signature is not a company. Until it resolves to a register entry, you do not know who is on the other side of the conversation, and everything else you are told rests on that.
The mechanism underneath the noise is simple. Ask who gets paid before any goods move. A listing business earns from your fee and your visibility, so its interest ends the moment you are on the list. A principal buyer earns only after the goods are bought and resold, which is why it cares whether the lot is real, whether the paperwork holds and whether the deal actually closes. We are the buyer here, not a marketplace; what that means for someone who moves stock every month rather than once is set out on our page for stock traders.
What the first message already tells you
Long before anyone signs anything, the shape of the first exchange shows you which kind of business is at the other end. A buyer that wants the goods asks what they are, roughly how many units there are, and whether you are open to a sale, then puts its own identity on the table without being asked for it. A business that wants your data asks you to register, to upload, to describe the lot in full and to name a figure, and stays vague about who it is until you have done all four.
Sneakers and sports footwear are what we take here, tier-1 brands, from 1,000 pairs upward, whatever sits behind the lot: overstock that outlived its season, cancelled orders, end of season carryover, liquidation, an insolvency estate. The categories and situations we turn down are set out on a separate page, and reading that one first will save you a conversation if your lot sits outside what we buy.
- What a buyer needs at first contact: category or brand tier, rough unit count, and whether a sale is on the table.
- What no buyer needs at first contact: your stock list, your invoices, your warehouse address, your Incoterms or your price expectation.
- A name in an email signature is not an entity. The registration number is, and checking it takes one lookup.
- Ask whether the party writing to you buys for its own account or introduces you to someone who does. Both models exist, both are legitimate, and only one of them is the one you think you are in.
When a check comes back empty
Nothing on the list requires an accusation. You ask, the other side either answers or does not, and the absence of an answer is itself the answer. The useful part is knowing what to do at the moment a line stays blank, because the pressure at that moment is to keep the conversation moving rather than to stop it.
The wording is the other half of this. Ask for the draft NDA and the draft purchase agreement before you disclose anything, and read two clauses in particular: the one that bars the buyer from reselling the goods in your home market, and the one that fixes payment before collection. If a sentence you were given on a call is missing from the draft, it was never a term. Ask us for ours on exactly those terms.
- No entity that resolves to a register: stop before the stock list. There is nothing safe to disclose to a name that does not exist on paper.
- No named person on the deal: ask for one in writing. A desk that will not put a person on the conversation will not put a signature on a contract either.
- Payment described as due on arrival, after inspection at destination, or in cash: that is not a payment term, it is a risk moved onto you.
- A document you may sign but not read in full beforehand: the wording is the deal. If it cannot be read before disclosure, it is a formality rather than a protection.
- Anything promised only in a chat window: ask for the same sentence in the contract draft. If it cannot go there, it was never a term.
What the next few days look like
You tell us three things
Category or brand tier, roughly how many units, and whether you are open to discussing a sale. That is the whole first step. No prices, no documents, no warehouse address, no Incoterms: all of that belongs in the negotiation, not in a form. A named specialist replies within one working day, by email or WhatsApp, whichever you prefer.
Mutual NDA both ways
Signed by both sides before the stock list changes hands. It covers the existence of the conversation, not only the contents of the lot, so nothing about your situation circulates while you are still deciding. It binds us exactly as it binds you, which is the point of it: a document you can read and show, rather than an assurance you have to take on trust.
Firm offer, in a call
Once we have the full stock list we come back within 48 hours with a firm number. It is one number for the whole lot, not a rate per article that changes once the pallets are counted, and it comes in the call rather than out of a form. Deciding to hold the goods another season is a legitimate outcome, and the NDA stays in force either way.
Payment, then we move the goods
The full amount is credited to your company account before anything leaves your warehouse. Collection is organised by us. The purchase agreement bars us from reselling the goods in your home market, and that sentence sits in the document you sign, not in an assurance given on a call.
Run the checklist on us
Three answers get this started: what the goods are, roughly how many units, and that you are open to discussing a sale. No prices, no documents, no warehouse address at this stage. A named specialist replies within one working day, and the mutual NDA goes out before you disclose anything about the lot. WhatsApp is a normal working channel here, not something we hide behind a contact form, and a phone number is optional.
Three questions, no prices asked and no documents required - a named specialist replies within one working day.
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
Will my lot be listed or advertised anywhere?
No. A footwear lot is also not anonymous: a model and a colourway are recognisable from a single photo, and a public listing tells anyone who follows the category which market those goods came out of. That is why the lot is bought for our own account rather than posted to a board, a buyer list or a group, and why the mutual NDA is signed before you disclose anything. The rest of the protection is in the contract: the purchase agreement bars us from reselling the goods in your home market. Written down, not promised on a call.
Who exactly am I dealing with?
A registered legal entity with a registration number and a VAT number you can check yourself, and one named buyer who stays on the deal from the first message through to the payment confirmation. You get both before the first call, without asking for them. One half of that question is easy to miss: does the party writing to you buy for its own account, or does it pass the lot to someone who does? We buy for our own account. A party that introduces you to the actual buyer is running a different business, and you should know which one you are in before the stock list moves.
Stocklot, overstock, closeout, parcel: does the word change anything?
Not for the goods. It changes who answers. Stocklot is the vocabulary of public trading boards and messenger groups, so searching it puts you in front of businesses whose product is the listing itself. The same pallets described as overstock or end of season carryover reach buyers who purchase for their own account. Use whichever word your industry uses when you write to us; just be aware that where you type it decides which kind of counterparty writes back.
How do I check a buyer's company in practice?
Take the legal name and the registration number and look them up in the national commercial register of the country where the company sits. Check the VAT number in the EU VIES database, which is free and public. Confirm that the address is a place of business rather than a mail forwarding box, and that the name on the bank account matches the entity that will be named as buyer in the contract. Then ask, in writing, which entity signs. Four steps, and only the last one needs the other side to do anything.
The buyer and the platform I found turn out to share an address. Should that bother me?
Related parties are not illegal, and a trading group can perfectly well own both a marketplace and a buying desk. What matters is whether you were told before you disclosed, and which entity ends up on the contract. Ask three things in writing: who buys, who pays, who signs. If those answers point to a different company than the site you arrived from, you can still do the deal, but you do it knowing that the introduction and the purchase are the same interest.
A messenger group is offering a lot like mine at a headline price. What am I looking at?
From inside the message you cannot tell, and neither can anyone else in the group. A number in a chat commits nobody to anything. Ask there exactly what you would ask us: who gets paid before any goods move, and which entity goes on the contract. What you should not do is send your stock list into a group to find out. A stock list forwarded once is forwarded permanently, and it travels with your company name attached to it.
What if I run the checklist on you and something does not add up?
Then you stop at that line and ask us for it in writing before anything else moves. The list is only worth publishing if it applies to us on the same terms as to everyone else, and there is no version of it where we ask you to make an exception for us. If we cannot produce something on it, you have the same answer about us that you would have about any other desk, and you have it before you disclosed anything.