Where these pallets come from
These lots come mainly from liquidation and insolvency sales, closing shop stock, end-of-line goods and customer returns. German vocabulary helps to sort the listings: Restposten and Sonderposten for clearance stock, Retourenware or Retourenpalette for returns, B-Ware for graded goods, Mischpalette for a mixed pallet, unsortiert for unsorted, ungeprüfte Retouren for untested returns, Konkursware for insolvency goods and Lagerauflösung for stock liquidation. These lots are often trade-only or sold as seen, without guarantee.
Checks before bidding
Read the description lot by lot: composition, condition, stated quantity, mention of unsortiert or ungeprüfte Retouren, and the stated VAT regime. With private sellers, buyer's fees generally range from 15 to 20% with liquidators and industrial platforms, often 25 to 33% with art auction houses; German VAT of 19% is added depending on the regime. Work out the price per genuinely resellable unit, including fees and transport, not the displayed price of the pallet. An auction generally offers neither guarantee nor right of withdrawal: read the seller's terms.
Collection, transport and delivery
Many lots are for collection on site, stated as nur Abholung, often with a loading dock or forklift: plan a suitable vehicle and the means to handle pallets. Some sellers ship within Germany or the EU, to be arranged and costed before bidding. Between Germany and another EU country, no customs duty applies; only delivery outside the EU, to Switzerland, the United Kingdom or Norway, incurs duties and import VAT. An EU business with a valid intra-Community VAT number can often buy without German VAT by providing proof of transport, depending on the seller.