I have close ties to the world of Surplus and Excess merchandise. I have bought and sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of closeout and overstock merchandise. I have retailed and wholesaled merchandise online and through more traditional “retail” store fronts. I know without a doubt a great deal of success came from the connections I made within the industry. I have been fortunate enough to work with some major players in the surplus world.

Making money buying and selling liquidations is not possible without the right contacts. Surplus.net is the oldest and the largest network of Surplus dealers offering a wide range of merchandise from consumer goods to salvage food supplies. When I started out buying and selling back in 2001 one of the first investments I made was a membership with IMASD (Surplus.net).

The membership offered a great way to list items I had for sale in quantity and advertise offers for merchandise that I was looking for. All members of this association receive the opportunity to have their latest “For Sale” and “Wanted” offers emailed to a list of “opt In” buyers/sellers who received this mailing twice a week.

The Surplus.net website has a Google page rank of 4 and Alexa lists this website as being one of the top 250,000 sites on the net. These impressive numbers translate into immediate traffic for all members.

Members can link their companies Surplus.net webpage directly to their own website for further traffic and cross-selling.

If you are in any way connected or want to be connected to the world of Surplus and Excess merchandise…you need to become a member of Surplus.net-

Memberships are not cheap, but you can set up a trial “Lease to “Own” plan to ease the expense.

If you are interested in talking about the purchase of a membership please comment below. I have two memberships for sale-

Lets make a deal to bring traffic to your business……..

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A liquidator distributes merchandise that is considered surplus and/or
salvage. A liquidator can get merchandise from a variety of sources
including retail customer returns, stagnant inventory, last seasons
models, overstock, canceled orders and other means.

The Liquidators’ main audience for this type of merchandise is simply anyone
that is searching for wholesale merchandise to resell. Possible clients
of a liquidation company can include Ebay sellers, small retail store owners,
Flea Market vendors and exporters.

Some Liquidators will purchase this type of merchandise in large quantities
and then resell to anyone wishing to buy at below wholesale pricing.
Obviously the Liquidator is in business to make money so all merchandise is
marked up before it is offered to the end reseller.

Not all Liquidators actually warehouse the merchandise they offer for sale.
Hence the term “Broker”. If a Liquidation Company is offering a specific pallet or
truckload of merchandise that they do not own this is called brokering. The
liquidator would list as many details including pictures if available of the
merchandise adding their commission or profit to the sales price. When a
reseller purchases the pallet or truckload the liquidation broker simply
buys the pallet or truckload at that time and then arranges shipping to the
client.

I will stress at this point that there is nothing wrong with a broker who
educates his clients and represents the merchandise being brokered in an
honest manor. Also, a prudent broker will not mark a pallet or truckload up
so high that an end reseller cannot make a profit after freight charges. I
would like to say all brokers act in an ethical manor adhering to the
principles I outlined about, but this is simply not the case.

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