What we do not buy
A buyer who takes everything, from adhesives to fryers, is telling you in advance that your pallets are just pallets. This desk buys one category, which is why it can also put its refusals in writing: below is the list of what we turn down, with the reason for each line. If your goods are not on that list, the terms are the same ones you will find everywhere else on this site: a mutual NDA before you disclose anything, payment in full before the pallets move, a firm number within 48 hours of a complete stock list.
- Mutual NDA before you send a stock list, and a contractual ban on resale into your home market
- Payment in full before the goods leave your warehouse
- A firm number within 48 hours of a complete stock list, on lots from 1,000 units
- Not this desk: children's ranges, furniture, sanitary ware, FMCG, lots under 1,000 units
The four categories we turn down
Every line below fails the same two tests: we have no sales channel of our own for it, and no expertise in pricing it. Without both, any figure we named would be a guess dressed up as an offer, and you would find that out somewhere between the manifest and the payment.
Writing it down here is cheaper for you than a week of calls that end the same way.
- Children's ranges and children's footwear, including children's lines from brands we otherwise buy. Kids sizing curves move through channels we do not run, so we cannot put a firm number on them.
- Furniture. Other buyers, other logistics, no contract markets of ours. Anything we quoted would be a resale to a middleman, and you would feel it in the number.
- Sanitary ware. Same answer: no channel, no category expertise, no basis for a firm price.
- FMCG. Shelf life, batch codes and food safety chains are a trade of their own. We do not run it, and we would not learn it on your lot.
Lots under 1,000 units
The threshold is 1,000 units. There is no version of this where we make an exception, so there is no point writing in to test it.
The reason is arithmetic, not status. A firm number in 48 hours means a buyer stops and works your manifest against live demand for two days, and collection is organised on our side. Both cost the same whether the lot is 400 pairs or 4,000. Below a certain size the deal cannot carry them, and the only number we could still justify is one you would not sign anyway.
New goods, and a chain you can trace
We buy new stock with a documented chain of ownership. Not used footwear, not customer returns, not goods where the title is unclear or the previous step in the chain cannot be named.
This is the same reason we can write a resale restriction into the contract and hold to it. A desk that cannot say where a lot came from also cannot control where it ends up, and that control is the entire reason you are reading a page from a buyer instead of listing the lot on a marketplace.
How that restriction is worded, and what it means for the markets your goods can and cannot be resold in, is set out on the overstock footwear page.
What this desk does buy
One category, two product groups, from 1,000 units: footwear and sports apparel from tier-1 brands, new. The situations are overstock, cancelled orders, end of season, liquidation and insolvency estates. The sellers are brands, distributors, retailers and insolvency administrators.
The terms and the mechanics behind the number sit on the pages below, starting with overstock footwear.
- Overstock footwear, tier-1 and new
- Sneaker stock lots
- Sports apparel and excess inventory
- Cancelled orders
- End of season stock
- Liquidation and insolvency estates in Europe
- Traders with lots to place
If this desk is not your buyer
We do not hand out competitors' contacts, and we have no view on who is right for furniture or for a lot of a few hundred pairs. What we can hand you is the checklist.
The buyer checks we published on the sneaker stock lots page are written for any buyer in this trade, including this one. None of them cost anything to ask, and all of them belong before you disclose a stock list. A buyer who will not answer them is not being discreet.
What the next few days look like
Three facts, nothing else
Category, brands, volume. No prices from you, no documents at this stage. A buyer answers within one working day and says plainly whether the lot is inside our filter.
Mutual NDA
Signed before you send a stock list, not after. The same paperwork carries the clause that keeps the goods off your home market.
Firm number
Prepared against your complete stock list and current demand, then named in the call. It is not generated by a form, and it is not a range.
Payment, then the pallets move
100% payment before the goods leave your warehouse. Collection is organised on our side, at a time that suits your warehouse.
If your goods are not on the list
Then this is the desk for them: new tier-1 footwear or sports apparel, from 1,000 units, sitting as overstock, a cancelled order, end of season, a liquidation or an insolvency estate. Mutual NDA before you disclose a stock list, payment in full before the pallets move, a firm offer within 48 hours of a complete stock list, collection arranged by us. The full terms sit on the overstock footwear page.
Three facts and nothing more: category or brand, volume, and whether you want to talk about selling. We never ask what you want for the lot, at this stage or any other, and no documents are needed to start. A buyer replies within one working day and says plainly whether the lot is inside the filter.
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
My lot is under 1,000 units. Will you look at it anyway?
No. The threshold holds, and asking twice does not move it. Below that size a two day valuation and a collection we organise cannot be carried by the deal, and the only number we could still stand behind is one you would not sign.
Do you buy children's ranges at all?
No, and no label changes that answer. Kids sizing curves move through channels we do not run, which means pricing them on guesswork, and a guess is not a firm number. The rule runs by category, not by brand: if the goods are children's ranges, this is not the desk, however well the line reads on the manifest.
Do you buy used or customer-returned footwear?
No. We buy new stock with a traceable chain of ownership. That is also what allows us to sign a resale restriction and hold to it, because a desk that cannot say where a lot came from cannot control where it goes.
Our lot is mixed: footwear plus other categories. Do you take part of it?
The footwear and sports apparel part, if it stands on its own at 1,000 units or more. The rest we leave where it is, and we will not pass it on to anyone on your behalf. We do not move goods we cannot price ourselves, and a buyer who offers to handle categories he does not trade is quoting you someone else's guess.
You turned my category down. Who should I contact instead?
We will not name anyone. A referral from a buyer who does not trade your category is worth about as much as his price would have been. Take the buyer checks from our sneaker stock lots page to whoever you speak to next: they apply to any buyer in this trade, and they cost nothing to ask before you disclose a stock list.