Reject store stock?

terry.h

Hope this is posted in the right place, it loosely relates to eBay...

I have purchased some garden lights from eBay which are exclusive to B&Q. I am guessing the ones I have purchased are some kind of reject stock as the boxes are not perfect and at a much lower price.

Where do people get these rejects? Do big stores throw away stock such as this?

Pembroke

Yes, lots of people return goods to shops such as B&Q and many other high street shops. You can buy (with care) pallet loads of return good to break down and sell on. You can find many of these pallet loads (or truck loads if you have the space) from Ebay and a google search will also return loads of hits on companies that sell these items on. Some shops such as Argos also have an outlet on Ebay to sell on returns.

terry.h

Thanks for that.

I have had a look for returned goods on Google but I'm not getting much show up.

Do they have a special name for these items? Any idea what to search for?

terry.h

Ah, found it under 'Returns Pallets' with the help of Google's search suggestions.

RFW

terry.h wrote: »

Ah, found it under 'Returns Pallets' with the help of Google's search suggestions.

I'd advise caution if you aren't sure what you are doing in pallets of stock. Try and only buy pallets that have full list of stock on them and with some kind of grade of return. "A pallet of returns electrical goods" could be any kind of value from being a pallet of total rubbish that needs tipping through to defunct televisions and then valuable items. You also need to be careful that any seconds of electrical items are not dangerous to resell.

Hammyman

And remember that you have to register as a business if you are buying goods to sell on at a profit and that you also have to comply with UK law in respect to DSR etc.

forgotmyname

Mate bought a couple of pallets of camping gear, Lots of junk a few good items. Its time consuming
going through all the stuff and testing it.

Unless your willing to sell as is and risk sending out faulty items.

One guy told him dont touch electrical items unless you know what your buying and can fix them yourself.

Quite a bit of the stuff went to the tip. I doubt he made his money back. He never did it again.

Crestfallen

You can find a lot of companies who sell returns by the pallet in 'The Trader' magazine. Like several others have intoned, I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole myself, like all such resold items in bulk the seller is likely to have stacked the deck by mixing up a few quality items with unsaleable dreck.

RFW

forgotmyname wrote: »

One guy told him dont touch electrical items unless you know what your buying and can fix them yourself.

I very rarely sell electrical items, but from what I remember fixing them yourself isn't necessarily enough if you are reselling them, I think they may now need to be tested and approved by a qualified electrician.

If you are looking at this, check the law for reselling items with your local trading standards office. The pallet resellers are selling business to business, if you are reselling business to consumer then the law is much stricter as to what can and cannot be sold.

Strapped

I buy clearance and liquidation pallets but personally returns are too much hassle, and I definitely wouldn't touch electrical returns with someone else's bargepole because as has already been pointed out, if repaired you must get them professionally tested and the implications of dodgy electrical stuff are too serious to contemplate!

texranger

Crestfallen wrote: »

You can find a lot of companies who sell returns by the pallet in 'The Trader' magazine. Like several others have intoned, I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole myself, like all such resold items in bulk the seller is likely to have stacked the deck by mixing up a few quality items with unsaleable dreck.

not all are returned stock, how it works is that companies like argos may go to a manufacturer and say i want to order 10,000 units lets say garden lights, so the manuafacturer will set about producing these + between 10/15% over to allow for rejects/breakages. so the initial 10,000 are perfect, what happens to the overage. these are sold to other wholesales at a reduced cost.

the amount of times i have gone to my wholesalers and purchased argos/asda/tesco etc branded items