💡Biz Ideas Have $10k worth of school items - how to sell it?!

[RiskyStuff]

I have a backyard stockpile of school supplies that were supposed to be for sale, but the employee got fired and the location closed. The business is no longer in existence. It was a place where you sold accessories bought wholesale. And now that place is gone. There's $10,000 worth of stuff left from various budget categories, mostly school supplies.

Where to sell it? How to sell it? Someone's idea is to simply sell it without margin just to recover money on unsold stock. I find it pathetic and laughed it off.

My idea was to make bundles of items and a mystery box. But here's a catch. I can create my custom items as hook and then sell those items in bundle with school accessories.

 

[t2van]

What is it pens, pencils etc? For schools to use or for pupils?


If it's pupils i.e student supplies then you need to build out the idea with ads now and then run everything about 4 weeks before the start of the new term after summer holidays / breaks. Anything before will be a bit of a waste I think. You want people to buy cheap low cost supplies when they start thinking about a new school term or children going to high school, college and so on.

If it's for schools to use, hooks, tags that kind of crap. Then bundle them off to schools, colleges etc the only hook here it you might need to become a registered supplier.



If it was me and it was pens, pencils, pads etc. Id just hit car boot sales, pop up market palces and just bundle them off simple cash business no fuss, once stock is gone you can just vanish into the air. Everyone needs a cheap pen, pencil and so on.


Mystery box type thing works if you are planning on doing it longer term.


Final option if it's no cost to you and you just "aquired" the stock. Then just auction it off in big boxes of random stuff.