Well over 100 posts and I have not reviewed a liquidation video game manifest, so I thought today would be the day! I personally have never purchased a video game pallet before and I must tell you I try to stay away from customer returned electronics in general, but I know there are tons of video game resellers out there on eBay.

I went ahead and uploaded the full manifest so we can review this pallet together. I like to review each item on the manifest and cross reference the list with completed auctions on eBay to get a good idea if a particular manifest will be profitable.

Keep in mind that although you can purchase this pallet well below wholesale, some item will be damaged as the entire pallet is listed in the condition of “customer returned”.

If you are interested in finding pallets of customer returned video games and electronics for that matter, you should check out my guide “Wholesale Liquidations Exposed” where I share all of my liquidation buying experience. I also disclose the source for purchasing pallets such as the one I am about to review today.

Lets look at two items from this manifest, which contains a total of 193 items including duplicates of some titles.

Keep in mind that at the time of this blog post, this pallet had an average cost of $6.85 per unit before shipping.

The first item that caught my attention was the item listed as, Xbox 360 Rock Band Special Edition. I went over to eBay and entered this title in the “completed” auction search and found that a total of 17 auctions have closed within the last 24 hours with successful bids. The lowest being $37 and the highest closed at $158.19. That is a huge range, but at least I was able to discern whether or not this item would sell.

The second item I researched was the Nintendo Wii Guitar hero. This item on eBay was selling just as well with a low closing bid of $44 and a high of $95 (with free shipping).

All in all, the pallet seems to be filled with some of the most current video game titles that would sell on eBay. You must factor in the the amount of damage you would receive as this is a pallet of customer returns which could range from damaged packaging to broken and/or missing pieces. In addition, you will have to factor in shipping to your final cost per unit.

Have you had experience buying pallets of customer returned electronics? What was the damage ratio versus “open box”?