Liquidation Intel — Bid on data, not adrenaline
Liquidation auctions reward whoever knows what a lot is actually worth — and punish everyone else. Most buyers bid on adrenaline and a manifest headline. Liquidation Intel grades the major liquidation marketplaces on what their lots really sold for versus what the contents can actually be resold for, so you can see which rooms leave margin on the table and which rooms are bidding against you.
The Daily Prospector — where to spend your time today
A live watch list of open lots, refreshed hourly, closing-today lots first. Every tracked lot shows its current bid against a realistic resale value built from sold listings — never MSRP — and anything bidding past roughly 70% of its value is flagged RUNNING HOT instead of dressed up as an opportunity. New lots, price jumps, and lots about to close — the board tells you where today's attention belongs.
The Weekly Report Card — every Friday
One scorecard grading six marketplaces across six categories, built from hundreds of closed lots: the grade, the median winning price as a percentage of resale value, and the sample size behind every number — plus the reasoning for each grade, the fee and manifest traps behind the medians, and a casebook of the week's real wins and losses. Grades are only published where the sample can defend them; thin cells say "sample building" instead of guessing.
From this week's data
- A designer lighting pallet with an $8,019 manifest story sold for $132. The room found it boring. Boring is where this market pays.
- A standby generator drew 30 bids and closed at 145% of its resale value — the buyer is roughly $2,600 underwater before freight. That is the winner's curse, measured.
- At one local auction, the median winning bid across valued lots was 101.8% of resale value — buyers paying full resale price at the hammer, before the buyer's premium.
How it works
Every lot's winning price is compared to a realistic resale value: where a lot has an itemized manifest, value is built line by line from the manifest, each item priced from actual sold listings. Grades come from the median of those ratios, per marketplace and category, and every grade shows its sample size. Liquidation Intel is independent: we never bid on the lots we analyze, so the grades carry no conflict of interest. Analysis only — intelligence for your own bidding decisions.
One subscription — everything included
$5/month for your first 3 months, then $19/month. Or $190/year. The Daily Prospector, the full Weekly Report Card, the Wins & Losses case files, and every marketplace grade and lot analysis — one plan, no tiers, cancel anytime.
Questions
What do I get as a member? The Daily Prospector live watch list with hourly updates, the full Weekly Report Card every Friday, the Wins & Losses case files, and all marketplace grades with the lots behind them.
How are the grades calculated? Each closed lot's winning price is divided by its estimated resale value, built from sold listings — never MSRP. Each grade is the median across the lots sampled, and the sample size is always shown.
Do you tell me what to bid on? No. Liquidation Intel publishes market analysis — where lots are selling relative to their value — so you can make your own decisions with better information.
Do you buy lots yourselves? Never the ones we analyze. Independence is the point.
What does it cost after the introductory period? The introductory offer is $5/month for 3 months, then $19/month. The annual plan is $190/year. Cancel anytime.
Questions before you subscribe: subscribe@liquidationintel.com