All Articles from Will Simon

The B-Stock Mobile Insider: Q3, 2025
The B-Stock Mobile Insider: Q3, 2025

Some of the world’s largest wireless OEMs, carriers, and trade-in companies leverage B-Stock’s B2B marketplace to maximize their profits on trade-in mobile devices and accessories. Get insight into secondary market trends to fetch the highest prices for your devices.

Oct 27 2025 · 1 min read

5 Ways to Build a Successful Apparel Recommerce Strategy
5 Ways to Build a Successful Apparel Recommerce Strategy

Apparel is one of the fastest-moving industries as seasons shift, trends evolve, and consumer expectations are higher than ever. In our latest flipbook, we examine key considerations to building a resilient apparel recommerce strategy.

Apr 28 2025 · 1 min read

B2B Resale Insider: Apparel 2025
B2B Resale Insider: Apparel 2025

As one of our consistently top-performing categories, B-Stock helps sellers maximize recovery rates and operational efficiency while giving buyers direct access to valuable, in-demand inventory. In this Apparel Insider, you’ll get exclusive insights into the demand and the value for…

Apr 28 2025 · 1 min read

Holiday Returns: By the Numbers
Holiday Returns: By the Numbers

After weeks (or in some cases, months!) of holiday shopping, most consumers are getting ready to kick back and relax with an eggnog in hand and open their gifts. Sounds merry, right? Unfortunately, retailers still have a good chunk of…

Dec 16 2024 · 3 min read

A Look at the Apparel Secondary Market 
A Look at the Apparel Secondary Market 

The secondary market for apparel is booming, and projections for 2025 and beyond are promising. In fact, the apparel secondary market is growing 15 times faster than the primary market, with experts projecting it will reach a total market value…

Dec 09 2024 · 5 min read

Discount Retail Chains’ Struggles Highlight Need for Diversified Secondary Market Strategies
Discount Retail Chains’ Struggles Highlight Need for Diversified Secondary Market Strategies

Within the last few months, Big Lots, Channel Control Merchants, and American Freight have each announced bankruptcy. The immediate future looks different for each of these organizations, and while these developments were somewhat expected to those in the know, they’re…

Nov 13 2024 · 6 min read

A Look at California’s First Take-Back Law for Textiles
A Look at California’s First Take-Back Law for Textiles

What comes to mind when you think of plastic waste? For many, it’s the photos depicting miles-wide patches of fishing nets, plastic bags, and beverage bottles afloat in the ocean. Fair enough. But over recent years, a lesser-known source of…

Oct 15 2024 · 6 min read

Meet the Mind Behind B-Stock’s B2B Recommerce Report
Meet the Mind Behind B-Stock’s B2B Recommerce Report

B-Stock is pleased to partner with today’s largest retailers, OEMs, and brands on large-scale B2B recommerce solutions, including an online auction platform that provides half a million business buyers direct access to returned and overstock merchandise, that they can then…

Sep 17 2024 · 8 min read

A Look into GameStop’s Automated Mobile Device Grading Program
A Look into GameStop’s Automated Mobile Device Grading Program

For over a decade, GameStop has worked with B-Stock to sell bulk quantities of trade-in mobile devices, tablets, and wearables through its B2B marketplace GameStop Wholesale. Since its inception, the marketplace has facilitated the sale of tens of millions of…

Sep 03 2024 · 8 min read

Resale Rules for Back to School (and Beyond)
Resale Rules for Back to School (and Beyond)

For many parents, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: back-to-school season! And with students of all ages returning to classrooms, families across the country are hunting for apparel and school supply deals that balance quality with affordability. According…

Aug 27 2024 · 5 min read

A B-Stock Mobile Expert Weighs in on Secondary Market Trends
A B-Stock Mobile Expert Weighs in on Secondary Market Trends

Each year, mobile device sales ebb and flow: new technologies find their way into handsets, supply chain, and production slowdowns or improvements play out, and other economic factors—major and minor—influence the mobile landscape. Naturally, there is a trickle-down effect to…

Aug 08 2024 · 6 min read

A Modern Approach to Reselling Consumer Electronics
A Modern Approach to Reselling Consumer Electronics

If you represent a brand or retailer that sells high-tech gadgets and electronic devices, you already know how fast these products evolve. Learn how you can quickly move surplus or aged devices directly to B2B buyers through a fully managed…

Jul 26 2024 · 1 min read