Why Your Toy Store Needs To Stock Liquidated Toys And Games

Toy store owners up and down the land are always on the lookout for cheap, reliable sources of top-quality toys and games for their businesses, but in recent years it’s safe to say they’ve hit a bit of a snag. Their usual source of wholesale merchandise, local wholesale suppliers, and small-scale liquidators, are no longer in a position to offer them the same kind of wholesale prices they’ve become accustomed to, and it’s often the case that wholesale pallets of toys and games are now being priced almost on a par with retail prices.

If your business has experienced the same supply line difficulties, what can you do? You still need wholesale merchandise, and you still need it to be priced at a point that buying and selling it won’t eat into your profits. Luckily, there are online wholesale suppliers who can help you with this conundrum – they’re called online liquidation marketplaces, and they can supply your business with all the brand name and general merchandise toys and games your business needs at a price you won’t find anywhere else.

A Different Type Of Wholesale Supplier

Unlike those aforementioned small-scale suppliers, a top-tier liquidation business such as Direct Liquidation does things differently. A liquidator forms a partnership with a big-name retailer such as Walmart, Target, and Best Buy, giving them a platform on their online liquidation marketplaces through which the retailers can carry out liquidation sales of their unwanted toys and games to businesses such as yours.

So, how does it work? Well, it’s pretty simple. Every year, retailers such as Walmart take back thousands of customer returns in a variety of conditions, some of them basically brand new. Classified as second hand, this merchandise clogs up a big-name retailer’s warehouses, and that’s space that could be used for brand new items. Not being a discount store or a second-hand retailer, stores such as Target, therefore, look to dispose of this type of surplus merchandise as quickly as possible.

Similarly, every year – especially around Christmas time – stores order in vast amounts of toys and games. Ordering stock is not an exact science, so it’s inevitable that there is going to be some stock left over that, again, the big-name retailers need to dispose of to make way for other products. This type of product is known as ‘overstock’.

Finally, there are what is called ‘closeouts’. These are toys and games that a retailer wants to dispose of quickly to make way for newer products, toys, and games a retailer wants to get rid of to make way for other seasonal products, and merchandise coming from store closures. In the case of closeouts, the toys and games you’ll find on a liquidator’s site will be in most cases brand new products.

Instead of trying to sell these different classifications of toys and games, big-name retailers instead sell them through liquidation marketplaces. All of these toys and games are available to buy wholesale in pallets or truckloads via live auction from a liquidator’s site, or you can buy most pallets at a fixed price, or you can contact the liquidator directly to negotiate a bespoke price.

If you’re on the lookout for toys and games, don’t forget to look in particular after seasonal events such as Christmas, Easter, Halloween and the vacation season. Around January is when the biggest selection of toys and games will start flooding on to a liquidator’s site, which makes it a great time to pick up large quantities of merchandise to sell to savvy, post-Christmas rush shoppers at an attractively low price point.

A Wide Range Of Great Quality Toys And Games

Now you know the types of merchandise a liquidator offers, it’s time to look at what you can expect to find on a liquidator’s site.

Fire up a liquidator’s online liquidation marketplace and you’ll find a huge range of toys and games (including computer games, games consoles, and peripherals). From generic, all-year-round toys such as board games, stocking fillers, toy cars and puzzles, you’ll also find toys coming from the biggest names in toy manufacturing such as Hasbro, V Tech, Funko, LEGO, Fisher-Price, Mattel and Skyrocket Toys.

Whether you’re on the hunt for a pallet of the latest Star Wars toys, a pallet of LEGO kits of all shapes and sizes, or a pallet of famous-name dolls such as Bratz and Barbie as well as doll accessories, you’ll find plenty to choose from on a liquidator’s site.

And unlike small-scale liquidation outfits and other types of wholesalers, top-tier liquidators don’t cream off the best stuff from the pallets they sell, meaning you’ll always get exactly what’s described on each pallet’s manifest. And because the toys and games a liquidator offers on its site are being sold by big-name retailers such as Walmart liquidations, you’ll have peace of mind that when you buy pallets of toys and games from a liquidator, they’ll be coming from proper manufacturers, not counterfeit goods made to poor or non-existent standards in far away sweatshops with absolutely no quality control that could potentially endanger the life of a child.

And with the liquidator’s 90-day warranty and the knowledge that you’re buying products from some of the most trusted retailers in the United States, you’ll have extra peace of mind when sourcing the toys and games your business needs from a liquidation specialist such as Direct Liquidation.

Why Your Toy Store Needs Liquidated Toys And Games

If you’re running a toy store, you’ll know how important it is to make the right purchasing decision when it comes to restocking your shelves. Selling toys, games, consoles, refurbished video games and peripherals can be a highly lucrative trade – especially now adults are just as likely to buy toys as children.

To make the most of this growing market, you need to purchase not only the everyday items your store needs to keep everything ticking along throughout the year but also the big-name, big-ticket products your customers demand. An online liquidation marketplace can supply your toy store with all the top-quality products it needs, and it can supply them at a price that means you’ll have plenty of room to offer your customers a great range of prices, whatever their budgets might be.

With wholesale prices being almost on a par with retail prices nowadays, the best way of ensuring your business has all the great quality stock it needs is buying merchandise wholesale from a top-tier, online liquidation specialist such as Direct Liquidation.

Profit is king in any retail business. By offering your toy store all the great-quality toys and games it needs at a low, low price, you’ll be able to offer your customers great retail prices, you’ll keep one step ahead of the competition and, most importantly, you’ll make money on the stock you purchase from a liquidator. That’s why your toy store needs to buy liquidated toys and games, so check out a liquidator’s marketplace today.

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Henley Johnson

Henley currently works as a sales representative for Direct Liquidation, assisting businesses with product sourcing of liquidated merchandise from the largest retailers in the world. Whether you are looking for a pallet or a truckload Henley is here to help you grow your business.

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