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Excess & obsolete inventory recovery, for hardware, plumbing, HVAC, electrical & industrial distributors

The inventory that stopped moving still owes you money.

A liquidator will offer you pennies on the dollar for it. Distributors working with us typically recover 3–5× what liquidators pay, with no manifest to build and no list to type up. Palletize what's stuck and ship it; the floor space is yours again the day it leaves. Every month after that, an itemized statement shows you every item and what it sold for.

You can start with a single pallet. One 15-minute call tells you whether it's worth shipping.

PALLET LIFECYCLE, HD LOT
FROM
YOUR DOCK
TO
OUR WAREHOUSE
MANIFEST REQUIRED
NONE
FREIGHT
WE ARRANGE IT
SPACE FREED
DAY ONE
REPORTING
MONTHLY, ITEMIZED
PAID MONTHLY

The aisle everyone walks past

You already know exactly which racks we mean.

Every distributor has them: discontinued lines, overbuys, customer returns that never went back on the shelf. Industry studies put dead stock at 20–30% of a typical distributor's inventory. It sits there quietly eating cash, space you pay for every month, capital you can't put back into the SKUs that actually turn, a line your lender quietly discounts.

And it stays, because every exit feels like a bad one. Writing it off means putting a name on a buying mistake, and the pallets are still in the building afterward. Liquidators offer pennies on the dollar and keep the upside for themselves. So it waits for another cycle count.

Here's the part worth sitting with: on the stock you've already written off, the loss already happened. Your books took that hit a long time ago. The only thing those pallets still cost you is the racking they stand on, and anything that comes back from here is pure upside, money you'd already stopped counting on.

Your ERP already prints this report. We're what you do with the last column.

Your exits, ranked

Every way out of dead stock, by what actually comes back.

Option 01

Keep holding it

It keeps costing you space and cash every month it sits. Next count, it's still there, a year older and no easier to sell.

Recovers: nothing, slowly

Option 02

Write it off

Cleans up the books and recovers nothing. The write-off is an accounting exit, not a physical one, the loss is booked, but the pallets don't leave the building. It's still eating racking space every day after.

Recovers: zero, and it still sits

Option 03

Sell to a liquidator

Pennies on the dollar, typically 5–10% of what you paid. They cherry-pick the good stock and keep the upside for themselves.

Recovers: pennies

Option 04, ours

Hardware Deadstock

Typical recovery runs 3–5× a liquidator's offer, no upfront cost, no manifest to build. You palletize it; we receive, sort, list, and sell it, and every sale lands on your monthly itemized statement.

Recovers: a real check, documented monthly

Recovery comparison per our founding team's distributor work; every lot is different, which is exactly what the 15-minute call is for.

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The process

From your back racks to a monthly statement, in five steps.

Tell us what's stuck

A 15-minute call: what you have, roughly how much, and how long it's been sitting. If you can pull an aging report, bring it, that's usually all we need.

We tell you what's worth shipping

Straight guidelines on what sells and what doesn't. Some items aren't worth the freight, big, low-priced stock like ladders, and we'll say so before you touch a pallet.

Palletize, we'll take care of the truck

You stack it, and that's the whole job: we arrange the truck and schedule the pickup. If you'd rather have a hand in the freight, you're welcome to one, but nothing about it needs you.

We receive, sort, scan, list, and sell

Your inventory is resold at retail through our established resale channels, outside your trade channel, away from your counter and your customers.

You get a monthly itemized statement

Every month it's selling, you see every item and what it sold for, each sale and each expense from the prior month, in writing. No mystery, no chasing, no lump-sum guesswork.

The division of labor

You stack a pallet. We do everything after.

All that's asked of you

  • Point at what's stuck, no manifest, no itemized list
  • Stack it on a pallet
  • Read a monthly statement

Everything we handle

  • Arranging the truck and scheduling the pickup
  • Receiving, sorting, and scanning every SKU, the counting we do, not you
  • Listing and selling it wherever it earns the most
  • Storing it in our warehouse the whole time it sells
  • Documenting every sale and every expense on your monthly itemized statement

The day the pallet leaves your dock, the floor space is already yours again. No list to build, no software to learn, no staff hours burned, the work moves to our side of the ledger.

Who it's for

Built for distributors, not for anyone else.

We work with mid-size distributors whose back racks hold real money: hardware and tools, plumbing and HVAC, electrical, industrial and MRO. If your dead stock is the kind that shows up on a P21 or Epicor aging report, you're who this was built for.

By dead stock we mean distributor inventory that hasn't moved in roughly 12–18 months, not sneakers, and not vintage fabric. Different internet, same word.

Hardware & toolsPlumbing & HVACElectricalIndustrial & MRO

Before you ask

The questions distributors actually ask us.

Q1What counts as dead stock?+

Inventory that hasn't moved in roughly 12 to 18 months, discontinued lines, overbuys, customer returns that never made it back to the shelf. If it's living in the 365+ column of your aging report, it qualifies.

Q2Will this end up in front of our customers?+

No. Your inventory is resold at retail through our established resale channels, outside your trade channel, not back to the counter. Protecting your customer relationships is a design requirement of the model, not an afterthought.

Q3Do we have to inventory it first?+

No. That's the point, there's no manifest to build and no itemized list to send. You palletize what's stuck and ship it. The receiving, sorting, and scanning is our job on our side, and it clears your floor the day it leaves.

Q4Do we have to ship it to you?+

You palletize it; we arrange the truck and schedule the pickup, so there's nothing for you to coordinate. If you'd like to be involved in the freight process, you can be. Once it reaches our warehouse, the space it was taking up is yours again.

Q5What do we see after it ships?+

A monthly itemized statement: every sale and every expense from the prior month, in writing, for as long as your inventory is selling.

Q6What does it cost to get started?+

Nothing upfront, no fee to send inventory, no charge to get started, no software to buy. How the recovery on your specific lot works is exactly what the 15-minute call is for, because every lot is different.

Q7Will you take everything?+

No, and you want it that way. Some items aren't worth the freight, and we'll tell you which ones before anything ships. You should only ever send stock that's worth sending.

Q8Who are we actually talking to?+

A partner in the business, someone who has stood in distributor warehouses and moved this kind of inventory, not a rep reading a script.

The next 15 minutes

Send one pallet. See what comes back.

You don't have to hand over the whole aisle to find out if this works. Send one pallet of write-offs, stock the books already took the hit on, and watch the monthly itemized statement come back: every item, what it sold for, every expense, in writing. If the number's real, you send more. If it isn't, the only thing that's changed is one pallet of write-offs off your floor.

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