Buying pallets of electrical items to sell?

knightstyle

Has anyone done this? How did you get on and what percentage of items went to the tip?
My S-I-L has been out of work for a while, I am an electrician, just retired. Thinking of getting a PAT tester and him selling things, market, car boot?
What do you think?

Brooker_Dave

knightstyle wrote: »

Has anyone done this? How did you get on and what percentage of items went to the tip?
My S-I-L has been out of work for a while, I am an electrician, just retired. Thinking of getting a PAT tester and him selling things, market, car boot?
What do you think?

Someone buys lorry loads of argos returns.

They cherry pick out all the good stuff.

They stiff the duds into dreamers via ebay who think most of it will go again, most of it turns out to be worthless.

Don't do it, it's all junk.

Brooker_Dave

If you must do this buy it here:

https://www.argosclearance.co.uk/AdvanceSearch.aspx?str=Domestic+Appliances

RFW

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

If you must do this buy it here:

https://www.argosclearance.co.uk/AdvanceSearch.aspx?str=Domestic+Appliances

It generally goes for more than it should on there. If you can get goods tested and give some kind of guarantee you're better off. As above though it isn't that easy to source the good stuff as it does get cherry picked and by the time it gets down the chain you're paying nearly new trade prices anyway.

If you can buy pallets where you can see items that could be ok. Sealed pallets with lists are often a waste of time and money, so get ones you can look at.

Being able to test/repair is an advantage otherwise I'd say leave well alone.

shaun_from_Africa

knightstyle wrote: »

Thinking of getting a PAT tester and him selling things, market, car boot?
What do you think?

Some of the items may have intermittant faults so when you test them they appear to be functional and safe but mey be anything but.
Selling used or reconditioned items as a business seller may be a money earner, but it would only take one customer to be electrocuted or one house fire to be caused by a faulty electrical item to end up costing the seller an awful lot of money.

dacouch

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Some of the items may have intermittant faults so when you test them they appear to be functional and safe but mey be anything but.
Selling used or reconditioned items as a business seller may be a money earner, but it would only take one customer to be electrocuted or one house fire to be caused by a faulty electrical item to end up costing the seller an awful lot of money.

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