The Appliances Secondary Market

Countless home appliance retailers and manufacturers turn to appliance liquidation services or solutions to efficiently manage their surplus inventory. This move is often driven by the realization that the costs associated with warehousing excess stock surpass the expenses of liquidating it in bulk once its prime selling period concludes. Typically, these appliance retailers and manufacturers engage with appliance liquidators, selling their excess inventory at a fraction of its original retail value to select major distributors and liquidation firms.

Liquidation platforms like B-Stock play a crucial role in the process, as they then offer these goods to secondary market channels. These channels, now more accessible to the general public, provide consumers with the opportunity to purchase high-quality appliances at significantly reduced prices. Throughout this journey, each entity within the supply chain secures a portion of the profits, incrementally elevating the price for the subsequent buyer within the secondary market supply chain.

The home appliance category primarily features washers, dryers, refrigerators, ranges, ovens, and dishwashers.  It’s no secret that popular home appliances are generally very pricey, especially for brand new, top-of-the-line models. As a result, many consumers have turned to the secondary market to find better deals on home appliances.

Buying and Selling Liquidation Appliances

These secondary market channels include discount retailers, outlets, eBay, online discount retailers, wholesalers, and flea markets. Business buyers can source their home appliance inventory through the liquidation channels that major retailers and manufacturers utilize to free themselves of their excess appliance inventory. The excess home appliances inventory is primarily overstock, returned, and refurbished home appliances.

Rather than selling to a few large liquidators who will turn around and resell the inventory to smaller retailers with a huge middleman markup, many major appliance retailers like Walmart and Sam’s Club have turned to B-Stock Solutions to help them build and manage private liquidation auction storefronts so that they could sell directly to smaller appliance liquidation retailers.

This process provides smaller appliance retailers (the business buyers we spoke about earlier) with direct access to the large appliance retailers and manufacturers. The appliance inventory is listed and sold at a fraction of MSRP, usually in truckload quantities. Appliance liquidation buyers appreciate the fact that they can access highly discounted appliance inventory that they previously did not have access to, and can bid on the liquidation appliance inventory with confidence because they can buy directly from the source.

B-Stock Guides: Liquidation Appliances

 

Check out our Buyer’s Guide to Major Appliances Liquidation Storefronts for more information. Or, visit storefronts like Best Buy, Costco Appliances, Lowe’s, and The Home Depot. You can also find major appliance manufacturers like Whirlpool and GE Appliances.

Andrea Vargas

Andrea is the lead content writer for B-Stock Solutions, the largest online network of B2B liquidation marketplaces. She specializes in creating buyer resources and tools for entrepreneurs and power buyers looking for liquidated merchandise.

Amberly Bliss, Owner

Amberly Bliss, Owner

Retail Deals

"I feel so confident shopping and bidding on items knowing that I am going to get what I paid for. And if not, there’s a killer customer service team that’s going to make sure everything’s alright in the end. That’s huge. It’s hard to take that risk when you’re first starting out."

More from the B-Stock Blog

B-Stock as a Comprehensive Recommerce Partner
B-Stock as a Comprehensive Recommerce Partner

For brands, retailers, and OEMs, dealing with returned and excess merchandise is simply a reality of running a business. Still, having these unsold goods on the books and taking up valuable warehouse space can place enormous stress and financial burdens…

Dec 06 2024 · 1 min read

‘Tis the Season for Secondhand Gift-giving
‘Tis the Season for Secondhand Gift-giving

The official start of the holiday shopping season is upon us with the bulk of spending set to take place over the Thanksgiving holiday as consumers and retailers look to capitalize off of Grey Thursday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday,…

Nov 21 2024 · 4 min read

The B-Stock<br>Apparel Insider
The B-Stock
Apparel Insider

Nov 20 2024 · 0 min read