I had heard of this place from a friend stating that he bought a pallet of basketball hoops and flipped them for an extra 250$. I wanted to check this place out to see what it was about.
Location:
It wasn't obvious where the building was. Aside from a very small sign saying flip goods on the eastern side of kiernan and an arrow pointing outward. So we drove in and kept following arrows until we hit a building that had cars in front of it. Again, an odd thing that there isn't any obvious way to tell that the business is here or anything like that. I had to ask a customer in the parking lot to be sure ( I didn't want to walk into someones random warehouse)
The Store:
We proceed inward, and see a bunch of pallets with manifests on them. The manifests list each item and their MSRP, NOT its actual depreciated value. Pallets have extremely random assortment of things in them, some of which are good items that do in fact have high value, and other items that have been clearanced from Kohls and Target (I'm a shopaholic, that specializes in sales esp in the electronics department lol). A lot of the items are discontinued products, or items that were part of a set that need to be full to be any real value
(example: 1 20' Rim. Who would actually buy just ONE rim from you with a specific style?). One cool find was a Neo Geo Gold still in its box -- but it belonged to a pallet around $1,300. The manifests states that the MSRP value of the whole pallet was over double, but after pricing through each item via Amazon and Ebay, you will most likely break even IF you're lucky to sell each item. We proceeded deeper into the store to find toys, items in bins, and items behind a small plastic gate that had a wide opening beside it. As we browsed through the manifests, someone... an employee I assume told us that that area was off limits. It... wasn't inertly obvious that it was. We just decided to leave.
Summary:
Although a cool idea, Items in pallets don't really live up to the value as noted in their manifests. A lot of the items are older, so their real value vrs MSRP is actually a lot lower than marked. That's assuming you actually CAN sell every item too. There may be pallets created where you do make a small profit, but after examining SEVERAL pallets, and finding useless sets ( like the rim example) I find that it's not worth the money and effort in trying to find a legitimate seller (esp in Modesto). You'd make money faster by working 4 hours at McDonalds -- and at the very least you'll know what you're in for. There's no real organization, nor sense that you're actually walking into a business. I do not recommend pursuing this route for Monetization.
TL:DR (too long, didn't read ver):
Cool idea, bad presentation - items aren't worth flipping. Get a part time job, make more money.
P.S.
Oh and
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Don't rate you're own business. I reported the crap out of your employees review and probably am the one who got it removed.
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