All Articles from Editorial Team

How Demand for Used Devices Shapes the Secondary Mobile Market
How Demand for Used Devices Shapes the Secondary Mobile Market

Explore the evolution of the smartphone market—past, present, and future—through the lenses of design, pricing, and innovation. Examine how these factors are shaping the secondary market and the new solution for businesses entering the mobile circular economy.

Sep 28 2023 · 1 min read

Your Guide to Appliance Liquidation: Find Affordable Appliances Near You
Your Guide to Appliance Liquidation: Find Affordable Appliances Near You

Are you in search of affordable appliances or looking to sell excess inventory? Appliance liquidation sales present a fantastic opportunity for both buyers and sellers to engage in the thriving market of discounted appliances. Understanding the ins and outs of…

Aug 23 2023 · 10 min read

Creating Good Manifests & Auction Titles
Creating Good Manifests & Auction Titles

When putting your excess and returned inventory up for auction on the secondary market, it can be tempting to speed through the listing process to save your employees’ time and clear warehouse space as quickly as possible. But a little…

May 30 2023 · 1 min read

How to Reduce Disputes With Buyers
How to Reduce Disputes With Buyers

Selling excess and returned inventory into the secondary market is a sustainable and cost-effective approach to inventory reduction, but it does mean you’ll be dealing with multiple bidders and buyers. Since all parties involved will have their own business interests…

May 30 2023 · 1 min read

Large Retailer Streamlines Sales Cycle and Consolidates Warehouses
Large Retailer Streamlines Sales Cycle and Consolidates Warehouses

When a leading US retailer found itself closing facilities and consolidating its many warehouses, it faced one key issue. Its resale partners at the time were too few, moved too slowly, and paid too little to support this aggressive consolidation…

May 11 2023 · 1 min read

Fortune 500 Appliance Retailer Builds a Better B2B Sales Channel
Fortune 500 Appliance Retailer Builds a Better B2B Sales Channel

When a Fortune 500 Home Improvement retailer began receiving a high number of returned appliances back from its customers, their initial reaction was to sell at deep discounts right off their showfloor. However, with a good portion of the returns…

May 11 2023 · 1 min read

Fortune 500 Retailer Triples Recovery Rate on General Merchandise
Fortune 500 Retailer Triples Recovery Rate on General Merchandise

A Fortune 500 retailer had been working with B-Stock to sell its returned and excess inventory via a private B2B storefront, but as pricing and buyer engagement on these mixed lots leveled out, it was clear a new strategy to…

May 11 2023 · 1 min read

GameStop Grows Buyer Base and Accelerates Sales Cycle for Trade-in Mobile Devices
GameStop Grows Buyer Base and Accelerates Sales Cycle for Trade-in Mobile Devices

GameStop was once comfortable selling large volumes of traded-in mobile phones to a small group of buyers for pre-negotiated prices, but when this trade-in business grew, it became clear they would need a more scalable solution. To achieve GameStop’s goals—increase…

May 11 2023 · 1 min read

Wayfair Builds a Scalable B2B Resale Solution
Wayfair Builds a Scalable B2B Resale Solution

Wayfair, a large nationwide retailer of home furnishings reached out to B-Stock looking to increase demand for a growing number of returned products—and to clear out this inventory fast. Learn more about how we worked with them to deliver the…

May 11 2023 · 1 min read

Paper Manufacturer Automates Sales and Grows Buyer Base
Paper Manufacturer Automates Sales and Grows Buyer Base

A North American paper manufacturer faced challenges in selling its excess product through traditional resale channels, which proved to be a slow and tedious process requiring lots of attention and outdated manual methods. But after partnering with B-Stock to automate…

May 11 2023 · 1 min read

HanesBrands and B-Stock: A New Solution for a Classic Brand
HanesBrands and B-Stock: A New Solution for a Classic Brand

When HanesBrands needed to move away from a traditional resale channel to a more efficient method of moving out unsold inventory, they came to B-Stock for help. In this case study, you’ll learn how our platform helped this classic brand…

May 11 2023 · 1 min read

B-Stock & CTIA Set Grading Standards for Pre-owned Mobile Devices
B-Stock & CTIA Set Grading Standards for Pre-owned Mobile Devices

Years ago several different organizations in the preowned mobile space independently observed a problem: The secondary market for these trade-in, returned, and unsold mobile devices lacked a standardized grading system, leading to disputes and mistrust between buyers and sellers, and,…

May 11 2023 · 1 min read