Cost per piece falls as the load gets bigger. So does your ability to absorb a bad one.
The economics favour the bigger load. Your risk tolerance usually
does not, at least at first.
Cost per piece
Buying by the truckload lowers the cost per piece, because you are buying the freight
efficiency along with the goods. A truckload here is typically 24 to 26 pallets.
What scales badly
Sorting time scales with the number of pieces. So does storage, and so does the cost of
being wrong about a category. A truckload of something you cannot sell is not twenty-six times
the problem of one pallet, it is worse, because it occupies the space you need to work.
A reasonable progression
Start with a single pallet in a category you already sell.
Measure your own sorting hours and sell-through before scaling.
Move to truckloads once the process, not the load, is the limiting factor.
Receiving is different
A truckload needs a dock or equipment to unload. Confirm that before ordering, not on the
day. See shipping and delivery.
Ready to move a load
See what is on the floor
Every listing states the lot type, the approximate count and the condition basis before you buy.