Pallet-Trader.co.uk?? Anyone dealt with them

l1ukeRS

Hi all,

I have been looking at buying pallets of stock/returns for a while now, has anyone had any dealing with pallet-trader

I am always a bit dubious about buying online, looking through their site it appears they sell on homebase returns just wondered if anyone else has dealt with them?

Thanks

19lottie82

Be aware that prices will exclude VAT and shipping, the latter can usually be quite high, so when you add both on to your purchase "price", it can bump it up quite a lot.

Strapped

Good luck with making any money out of returns. You need to buy lots to spread the risk but some (most) pallets will be utter carp.

ballisticbrian

The biggest mistake people make on business ventures is because they don't account for or even know the cost of their own time. You even see them on dragons den, people who are breaking even and not paying themselves any money.


Start backwards and work out what hourly rate you would like to earn, and then work out how many items you need to sell averaging the cost and markup on each item on a pallet.


Account for the time it takes to take receipt of the pallet, check goods in, test each item, create adverts for each item (assuming on-line) pack goods to send, and send each item including processing the order.


You will find to achieve any reasonable income these pallets will need to be flying through your hands at a rate of knots.


Many people look at eBay and don't do any calculator work, and say "if other people can sell bags of cake mix *or whatever* for 99p and make a living... so can I. And they keep running around like blue-eyed flies being really busy and making little or no money.

fishybusiness

Good luck with making any money out of returns. You need to buy lots to spread the risk but some (most) pallets will be utter carp.

Choose wisely and there is money to be made, with very little waste.

Don't bother with Homebase returns, they are mostly bin fodder.

RFW

fishybusiness wrote: »

Choose wisely and there is money to be made, with very little waste.

Don't bother with Homebase returns, they are mostly bin fodder.

It depends which end you're getting them at. Direct from the company, I'll agree. If they've been 'processed' a couple of times you could end up with a lot of nothing. Another area where you really need to know what you are doing.

forgotmyname

Pot luck, A mate bought pallets of stuff from auction not from that site. Loads of argos returns.

So much stuff with missing items. I think too many people use argos to replace spare parts on items they already have or bought elsewhere with parts missing.

He didnt get his money back. He failed to check everything properly a some of it came back for a refund.

How about a brand new seemingly unopened tent worth £200. Total lack of poles except the 2 short spares ones placed in the top of the package so you think the poles are there.

I went to an auction recently and bought a whole box of something that the family wanted. Selling the rest on to friends and family making a few pennies on each.

If everything sells then the items we kept will be free. So far we have almost got our money back.

RFW

forgotmyname wrote: »

How about a brand new seemingly unopened tent worth £200. Total lack of poles except the 2 short spares ones placed in the top of the package so you think the poles are there.

That's one thing to look for, a good chance would be with a pallet of just returned tents in boxes. If there's 20 boxes you may get a dozen good tents so that could be worth it.
A good few years ago we put a few pallets of returned and faulty toasters in an auction to be sold as spares/repairs. The auctioneer knew this and sold them as new (they were in clean boxes), this, unfortunately still happens and the buyer often has no comeback.

fishybusiness

So much stuff with missing items. I think too many people use argos to replace spare parts on items they already have or bought elsewhere with parts missing.

Yup, and missing parts are often unobtainable, especially on low price brands.