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Congrats to our 2020 “Pro to Know” – Dave Whitlock!
We’re pleased to announce that Dave Whitlock from our Mobile Team has been named a 2020 “Pro to Know” by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. The Pros to Know Awards recognize supply chain executives that are leading initiatives and…
B-Stock Announces Three New Executive Hires to Drive Strategic Growth
Introducing New Vice Presidents of Engineering, Product, and Marketing Belmont, CA – February 5, 2020 – B-Stock, the world’s largest business-to-business marketplace for returned, excess, and other liquidation merchandise, today announced the addition of three executives to its leadership team.…
Live Video Chat: Consumer Electronics Secondary Market Insights
Around 20% of consumer electronics purchases are returned: the biggest drivers include customer dissatisfaction and frustration with the product. Given constant technology upgrades and open boxes or torn packaging, many of the items cannot be resold as new, at full…
As You Gear Up for Holiday 2019 Don’t Forget About Gift Returns
Believe it or not, the 2019 Holiday season is coming up fast with only a couple months before consumers start opening their wallets in search of the perfect gifts (officially, the holiday shopping period starts November 1 and in some…
Mobile Secondary Market: Q2 2019 Insights
Each quarter we compile data from across our Mobile Marketplaces to create an overview of secondary market industry insights, including pricing data for devices across model, carrier, condition, color and SKU. The world’s largest wireless manufacturers, carriers, and trade-in companies…
Why the Trade Wars May Lead to Excess Inventory (and what to do about it)
The ongoing trade war with China and the threat of increased tariffs coming down the pike has many retailers buying increased amounts of inventory now to avoid higher pricing later. While at first blush this sounds like a good strategy—buy…
CTIA 2019 Survey Shows Explosive Mobile Growth
Quick Facts: 82% growth in mobile data from 2017 to 2018 Mobile data traffic grew from 12.89 trillion MBs to a total of 28.58 trillion 9.6% increase in time talking on mobile phones from 2017 15.8% increase in text messaging…
Digital Flipbook: Five Ways To Offset Loss For Excess Inventory + Protect Your Brand
When it comes to excess merchandise challenges – due to store closures or high rates of shelf pulls, overstocks, and customer returns – every retailer and manufacturer should have a secondary market solution. The best ones allow for a fast…
Nine of the Top 10 Retailers Liquidate with B-Stock. Here’s Why.
With online sales rapidly increasing year over year, so are returns: around 30% of all online sales are sent back. This combined with excess inventory woes—faced by many of today’s brick and mortar retailers—is creating a backlog of inventory piling…
Mobile Secondary Market: Q1 2019 Insights
The world’s largest wireless manufacturers, carriers, and trade-in companies are currently leveraging B-Stock’s B2B marketplace platform for their trade-in and excess mobile devices and accessories. Across our network of mobile marketplaces over 3 million phones and 5 million accessories are…
B-Stock’s Network Effect Drives Exponential Sales
“Build it, and he will come,” says Kevin Costner in the movie Field of Dreams. And what goes for corn fields and baseball goes for online marketplaces and returned and excess inventory. Case in point: it started with one major…
Meet the Q1 Grade A Award Winners
The Q1 Grade A Award winners have been announced and we couldn’t be more excited to spotlight them! The award spotlights outstanding performance by individuals who 1) embody the B-Stock values, 2) are collaborative, dedicated team members, and 3) make…