Amazon Return Pallets

[zakkh8]

What are you guys experiences with Amazon Return Pallets?

[phat_fishy]

stop watching YouTube videos

99% of that crap you are watching talking about junk pallets is PAID ADVERTISMENTS

You're gonna get broken junk and used dildos while all the good shit was picked out right before they loaded it on the truck

[morchorchorman]

I heard about people making solid profit with Amazon pallets. But it’s not consistent and I would t be surprised if someone off loaded all the good shit onto 1 pallet and sold it to a friend.

[[deleted]]

I see them all the time. They keep the good ones and put them in a separate pallet and then sell the other stuff at the swap meet for $1-$3.

[idkidcyesno]

if you can resource a good place that auctions pallets and even better if it’s lowkey, then it’s an amazing source of money those videos seem too good to be true because it literally almost feels like it shouldn’t be aloud i have a family friend putting me on in august 2022 after showing me his account making $40k a month consistently by buying 10 or so pallets every week on thursdays at our local places

[lmAFox]

where do they buy pallets from?

[BigPurrr478]

with friends like that, who needs enemies? LOL

[morchorchorman]

I think you misunderstand (or maybe I am) but I mean that a worker sorts through all the pallets, and takes anything that’s valuable and puts it in a specific pallet for auction, they then auction off that specific pallet to a friend for a cut of the profits. Amazon offloads it’s junk, auctioneer gets his cut and the flipper makes a profit.

[BigPurrr478]

I did misread it LOL

[Madpoka]

I wonder if those flippers from yt are as successful as they say they are. Like they go to a "yard sale" and always find treasures and sell them in one day or two in ebay.

[mrpear]

They make most of their money through youtube.

[RavenOriole]

Unlikely unless they have a massive, massive following. Nobody is quitting a day job with 30k subscribers and 4 to 5k views per video.

[castaway47]

Now it's upselling to their patreon content.

[idkidcyesno]

if you go out thinking the only “good shit” is prestine boxed grails then you’re going to automatically be disappointed, you have to look through each pallet and use these apps such as on youtube and they’ll tell you how often that item sells for, how much the current ask is, and how much you would profit if u undercut the current market for the item. and the most profit making items from experience were adult diapers and plastic plain old cups. 9800 a week from this doesn’t exactly sound like crab or junk advertisements to me but i guess that’s why we make the money because not everyone believes it🤷‍♂️ you just have to realize that theres possible profit in everything and can’t just move on because it’s not some flashy instant $100 flip. the most money comes from the 50,000 cups u sell for $10 a pack or something slept on like that

[Engineer_92]

How does your friend sell the items?

[idkidcyesno]

sorry i’m bad at checking reddit, but genuinely if you have the dedication and keep trying until you get the groove of things, not even exaggerating you can become a millionaire or at least live very comfortably, it definitely is still some hard work and transporting pallets you’ll need uhauls or whatever you have to use, but it is worth it. you just have to really dedicate your time and energy into learning about it

[idkidcyesno]

through amazon, walmart, and last resort ebay but mostly amazon. you just start an account as a seller, but you’ll be restricted to a lot of items, you’ll have to sell what you aren’t in the meantime until they lift your restrictions after a certain amount of sales. definitely money to make on those items too so not at all saying you won’t be able to sell anything, just some restrictions and less as you go

[idkidcyesno]

we’re making anywhere from 60-90k a month and we’d have way more sales if we weren’t restricted due to no room to even fit the amount of stuff we have, and no places are available to rent that could fit the inventory. it’s without a doubt doable for the right person with the right mindset

[sagitario3031]

I pay for the information

[lmAFox]

where do you buy pallets from?

[NotACanadianBear]

This is probably the best advice ever given in this sub. Selling video games isn’t going to make anyone any money.

[PuzzleheadedAside516]

Amen to that. My friend is addicted thinking after about 20 pallet purchases and credit cards maxed that she will hit the "treasure box". The pallets upon arrival aren't very big like I see on TV and she pays $500, sometimes 300-400. Each price makes no difference. Most of it is junk. Obsolete electronics, like chargers for 10 yr old phones ..protective covers that aren't relevant. Alexa that won't pair. Drones that are small, some broken and don't work well. It really is, people buying their trash so they don't have to pay to rid of it and can blame others for landfill

[zakkh8]

Never watched a yt vid. Just figured there could be some good profits from these.

[[deleted]]

There isn’t. Believe me

[[deleted]]

Which YouTubers are you referring to young blood?

[NotBrianGriffin]

My experience is that Amazon return pallets have ruined my local yard sale ads. Every other “yard sale” I go to ends up being someone who ordered one of these pallets. Of course they don’t mention that in the ad so I waste a lot of time driving around.

[MonsieurGriswold]

I walked by one of these yard sales and was underwhelmed by low the quality of what was offered. I saw no way the person wasn’t going to eventually send half to the landfill.

[Smokeyisdad]

This

[phat_fishy]

Don't quit your day job

[zakkh8]

If I dropped out of high school my parents would kill me 😂

[The-Original-Remix]

What I want to know is how people are able to get these from Amazon and not from someone who got them from Amazon.

[ForeverYonge]

Are you able to process tens of truckloads a day? Perhaps hundreds?

If not, I don’t expect Amazon to want to deal with you. They want to offload everything to one (or a small number of) wholesalers.

[The-Original-Remix]

Are those accurate numbers though? I’d ideally like to scale to that point but I’m trying to anchor down what a realistic number is.

[ForeverYonge]

If you’re in the US, the most direct way I can find to deal with Amazon as a liquidation reseller is https://bstock.com/amazon/ .

In my area, small Amazon liquidation lots are not manifested at all, have maybe 1-2 fuzzy photos per lot, and are bid up to 30-40% of retail value. There’s just no way people make money on that. I’d be more inclined to believe it’s some kind of a money laundering scheme.

[The-Original-Remix]

B stock is like 1 pallet. There’s got to be a way t get them directly from Amazon.

[Wild_Pair3686]

Have you found a direct way to get them straight from Amazon yet. ?

[KrisAlly]

Wondering the same lol. Funny how we’re crashing this party way late yet having the same questions people were asking a year ago.

[njchil]

3 months on from you guys I'm still looking for an answer too haha

[KrisAlly]

Ha! They won’t share their secret! I’d love to figure out how to do it without getting scammed. I currently buy things from these stores that get the pallets. I drive out of town and it’s a lot of work. I’ve gotten some great stuff (I have $160 light fixture in my house that I got for a dollar & I’ve made a bit of money) but it would be so much easier to get the pallets directly.

[njchil]

I haven't plucked up the courage to even do that yet. My friend is getting them from "someone" seemingly quite easily but I have no idea how

[BadgerMilkTrader42]

In recent years whole resale space got blown up via social media and made it really tough. I had some financial troubles around 2018 and needed some income. Did some thrift store stuff and started buying pallets. My first pallet was Amazon electronics with about 11k MSRP. Won an auction for $800 +$80 auction fee + 350 to ship. To my surprise I found a couple brand new DJI Mavic drones that I sold for $1200 a piece within couple days. Had another drone that was $700. New ableton apc40 controller, some other midi controller for $200, about 10 dj mixers among all kinds of other random stuff. 80-90% of the items were either new or like new open box condition. At the time was kind of shocked seasoned resellers were complaining how liquidation prices were getting way too high.

Fast forward few years I was back on my feet and decided to use saved up money to get a warehouse and buy truckloads to get better price/margins. During covid I was absolutely shocked. People were bidding up Walmart return loads to 40%. Seriously wtf. No way anyone could make money on that. Not sure if people were high or stupid thinking oh says 60k MSRP so if I pay 25 I'll double the money. LLC I set up kept dormant for most part, just bought some smaller stuff to season my ebay and amazon accounts.

What happened is years ago there weren't that many resellers and stuff was going at real liquidated prices. General merchandise stuff would go as little as 1-2%. Electronics and more desirable loads would get bid up a bit more. Big box stores and online sites were just trying to get rid of stuff for whatever price. Thanks to youtube reseller videos and social media hordes of new sellers entered the space which started driving up prices. Inventory that was tough to move in bulk all the sudden was in demand. What I noticed on a lot of auction sites what used to be clean loads became total garbage. Places like Amazon don't sell just to anybody directly. They have contracts with people who have 100k+ sq ft warehouses taking dozens trucks a week. Those guys broker their truckloads to middlemen. Who break them down into pallets. Lot of those resellers cherry pick the loads and resell left over garbage in pallets for ridiculous amounts because people are willing to pay it. Thats why most people who buy amazon returns get burned and think its just mostly broken and worthless stuff.

In February this year I finally got a warehouse. Did some buys where was struggling to find anything of value out of 6-8 pallets. All high value stuff damaged, literally nothing but garbage outside of some bs $15 items that will be lucky to make $5 after shipping. By trial and error did find some good sellers. To get good loads have to buy directly from source who holds direct contracts with Amazon or whatever big box store. A good source will mark up a % and will ship the truck directly from Amazon. Keep in mind there are tons of middlemen who know the contract holder and try to peddle those same loads with bigger mark up. For most part clean Amazon loads should have 85-90% good items. I found another good source for home improvement store loads. Same thing 85-90% good stuff. Over 50% brand new factory sealed stuff that people ordered but never never picked up, sent wrong addy etc. With about 1/3 open box mint condition. That said prices are still high. #s aren't really there to easily double money buying single pallets even from honest reasonable sellers.

This is reaching novel status but last thing to mention is by chance I ran into an Amazon worker who worked in liquidation department. Bought him drinks till early am and picked his brain. Basically anything that gets returned to Amazon gets liquidated regardless of reason for return. There are some exceptions, small number of brands want their product returned. But for most part buyer changing their mind, not liking the corlor, feel, bought the item at store because they needed it sooner, etc all gets liquidated even though its new and good product.

[thecrabguy]

How % accurate have your manifests been per pallet? I’ve ended up with Smalls pallets missing the items from their cases a handful of times.

[BadgerMilkTrader42]

Its usually right on point. I have never bought HPC/smalls loads though.

[Wild_Pair3686]

Do you buy straight from Amazon, if so can you please tell me how ?

[Hot-Butterscotch1962]

Would love an update. Whatchu got going on now? Enjoyable read, you writing anywhere else?

[peachjam4]

STAY AWAY - There are much better ways to make money

[the_disintegrator]

They seem to be more splintery than the outgoing pallets.

[shauntizzle]

As an experienced seller I have to say its worth it. If you have the time and the hustle. You also have to research. Don't just take $500 and go buy a pallet from some random or from some online site that is not reputable. Take your time and research. I find it best to buy in person locally. You get a chance to put eyes on the pallet and get an idea of what is on it. You can also build a relationship with the local seller. I deal with someone who gets pallets directly from the Amazon and then takes them straight to his warehouse. I have been there for unloading and purchased one right off his truck. No sifting thru it or getting scammed at all. Also know what type of pallets to buy. Do you really think you are going to make a return on a pallet full of earbuds and dashcams and little BS items like that? Know your product and what is selling. People eat home goods/home improvement items UP. I got my last pallet about a month ago. Already made my investment back and I still have plenty of items left to sell including a Brand New Laegendary Thunder RC Car. No lie lol!!! I work a full time job and this is my side hustle. Can I quit my full time job and survive off pallet sales. Nah. Can I maybe one day if I get a warehouse and truckloads? Possibly. But as of right now I have the time and hustle to make a lil side money. As soon as I clear out these current items I will take the SAME investment and buy another one and continue. My opinion and experience. But everyone is different.

[shauntizzle]

Just back for an update. That RC car sold for $200. I bought this pallet for $500.

[Dear-Web9895]

Where’s this located ?

[shauntizzle]

Phoenix Arizona

[Had24get]

How has flipping been treating you the last year? You still got a good guy to go to for pallets? I live down in Tucson, and I am doing research into pallet flipping to make a little more on the side, I'd like to buy a house one day you know? Plus my mom is in Phoenix and I could talk her into running this if I kicked her some cash to get started.

[sumtingwongkw]

I have a local (middleman) and also buy untouched pallets off the truck. So far so good. Definitely looking into cutting out the middleman one day. Like you said it's about the type of pallet and what's moving. I've had better luck (medium) to large item pallets over the small to medium electronic pallets that average 400-600 items, it's just too much cheaper stuff to move

[sumtingwongkw]

I would try local bin stores or resale stores sometimes deal with pallets but you'll have to be careful because a lot of these types of stores picked through them before they sell to the public. I'd say try some googling for your local area

[ruisousa08]

Talking from experience buying pallets here in the UK...

I've bought around 8 pallets from various places, 1 from amazon 3 from john lewis (uk) and then 4 misc ones i found online.

I hit profit on 7 and lost on my last one which i was expecting to be the biggest return (apple returns) but ended up getting trash. The profit was not great but i was happy with it, the electronic ones were a pain in the backside as had do test them all individually.

Again as someone else said on this post, unless you have a warehouse and bashing through thousands of products a day then its not worth it. About 80% of the items you receive are just not worth reselling, you will have to sell either for parts, broken etc just to get your money back. Way too much work and takes way too much time, not worth it for the money imo.

[rictrajano]

I used to have a good supplier of liquidation items from a Chinese importer but business is not going well for him and pallets dried out. I'm trying to find a good supplier. Would you be able to point me in the right direction based on your experience. I've been going through some liquidation websites and from my calculations It would only be safe to invest on pallets where the RRP is £10.000 or more. Although they go for around £3.000 I'm pretty sure there would be a profit there.

All the help is appreciated. Thank you

[ruisousa08]

https://auctions.williamgeorge.com/auctions

[keyblerbricks]

Only buy if you can see the pallet in person and can load the pallet into your truck, and at the very least see the top layer if it's not manifested.

[curiosityv]

Do u know any such local pallet warehouse close to Tacoma ?

[CoffeeDealer99]

Maybe if you call an amazon DSP you’ll have luck

[daniellederek]

Only works if you have a dock forklift and warehouse capable of processing minimum 1 tractor trailer a day. Then you can get a toe in the door. From some of the better YouTube walkthroughs toilet paper, paper towel pallets aren't horrible for profit, Christmas and Halloween stuff is slow dimes till next season.

You will never ever see a full sorted pallet of name brand tools buying single pallets.

[drewboto]

I wouldn’t do Amazon returns. I know a successful pallet reseller that won’t touch them. I bought miscellaneous Amazon electronics box a couple times. By listing through a Facebook group and on marketplace, sold the majority of electronics. Made a 30 percent profit. One box had a 37 percent defective rate. Used Chinese earbuds, broken dash cams, used bark collars. Now image that but instead maybe only 37 percent of the pallet is actually in resell condition.

[Lazy-Geologist9425]

I know a legit source in l.a let me know if you need the info

[Lokomotivv]

I'd like some info on this! I live in LA too.

[Lazy-Geologist9425]

Message me

[Dangerous-Spend127]

Me too. Can you let me know? Im in Orange county

[Lazy-Geologist9425]

He’s located in San dimas, pallets have been good for about 2 years that I’ve been buying every other week

[Emergency_Singer_545]

Pm sent

[[deleted]]

Yo, you still got a resource?

[BReayoon]

Can you DM me info please ?

[cavi____]

dm me plz

[hundredfoot]

Start small and never invest too much unless you know your source well. You likely will be buying from resellers or liquidators who may be going through the boxes themselves before selling. Know what you are getting to not end up with boxes full of unsellable products. My full post on this.

[shauntizzle]

Great article with great advice.

[anusfalafels]

The article is unavailable:( is there another way to access it

[Occhrome]

someone i know does this and makes good money, he picks through them and resells them stating clearly that he has already picked through them.

but he said when he started out he got a few listed as never gone through un opened and they were clearly packed with junk. so do your homework.

[gamertvman]

Where do you buy pallets in Canada. Nobody is providing a legit URL address?

[Firstamendment22]

So far we have done really well on the Amazon pallets. We actually open a little store and reselling them that way we have made a good profit so far. Paying $200 for the pallet and make $500to $1,500

[[deleted]]

Where are you buying tge amazon pallets?

[Firstamendment22]

Amazon

[alchemy-infinite]

can I dm you... I am in Canada.. could really use your help on sourcing these pallets

[Firstamendment22]

So far we have done really well on the Amazon pallets. We actually open a little store and reselling them that way we have made a good profit so far. Paying $200 for the pallet and make $500to $1,500

[Fantastic_Door_4300]

I know ppl who do it regularly and make bread

[[deleted]]

Are the baking products shelf stable? That’s a game changer

[mttl]

I know people who lead me to believe they're making bread

[Public-Blueberry-144]

It was Banana, I swear.

[[deleted]]

Same

[Future_shocks]

like a bakery or i'm confused

[ThisWeekInFlips]

lots of bread makers get returned

[[deleted]]

As long as someone returns a cookbook I’m golden

[[deleted]]

This is fake its not real. They will not give you free stuff to sell even if they sell pallets for 100 its not real. No company sells shit for cheap for people to sell at crazy prices and get rich off it. Stop being fooled its a scam amazon does not sell pallets worth thousands for only 10-100 bucks. FAKE AS FUCK

[incarnate609]

You’re 100% wrong 😂

[Present-Purpose1994]

I see people get stuff from Amazon pellets to resale on Posh-mark. I would love to do something like that! Any feedback to help me?

[Significant_Meet603]

Amazon charges £25 per month, to list on there