This is the same as the "unopened" pallets of amazon returns you can buy.

The screenshots show you pallets stacked 10 feet high with Dewalt and Milwaukee power tools.

Is there any business owner on the goddamn planet that wouldn't just quickly browse these things and take the most valuable shit out?

Just the tiniest bit of skepticism and critical thinking is enough to avoid this horseshit.

Sure. Figuring out what is and isn't valuable, and going through the product, takes time and effort that may not pay off. Then you have to deal with selling it off individually. That's a hassle.

In the example I gave you, it is absolutely trivial to spot valuable product. You can do it with literal seconds, and virtually anyone could be trained to do it.

Then you have to deal with selling it off individually. That's a hassle.

It's a hassle to sell individual (desirable) products with a known value and high demand, but it isn't a hassle to sell gigantic pallets of garbage through backalley-eque advertising channels and coordinate the freight to ship out?

Please.

It's not much different than buying a storage unit. Lot owner has, in principle, the same opportunity to sift through them before auctioning them off. They can even put a new lock on to make a show of cutting it off. It's all profit at that point, right?

Yes.

And that is 100%, absolutely what they do. That's my point.

You'd be shocked, actually. If you're a bulk shipper, you are not at all logistically able to sell to individuals. You got a store front? How are you getting it to the individuals? How are you telling them to come to you, and how are you getting max value from them? You think these warehouses are centrally located in cities? They're not.

What advertising channel are you going to use? "Come on down to the warehouse district, we're the one that's not abandoned!" Sure, that'll get you a lot of locals coming to you and won't at all increase your security costs substantially--and permanently, even though your supply of these goods won't be permanent. Or you rent retail space, and then you have to use smaller local freight to get it from A to B, have someone sort and load it, and then you have someone researching each and every item that comes in for their value. And have someone sit in the store. And advertise the store. That's a lot of extra work--who's doing it? How much does it cost? Can you be consistent with your supply? Why do you think pawn shops have such massive margins on what they offer and what they sell? Because they have to sit on something for months, or even years, before getting a purchaser. That money is tied up in that inventory, and could be doing something else.

Do you know how many manufacturers have their own stores for selling their products? Very few. Why? They don't want the hassle. They let someone else do that. And they always know what they've got coming and going.

Yeah, it's actually a lot harder than you think.

All of these words to try and convince me that selling a brand new Milwaukee power tool is somehow more difficult than bulk selling and shipping mystery return lots.

Well, you're wrong. They don't. Have you seen a storage unit that's been abandoned? It absolutely takes time to find something valuable. Oh, and if there was something genuinely valuable and easy to sell in there,

It takes literal minutes to open a storage unit up, remove safes, guitar cases, power tools, furniture, etc. A quick scan can instantly identify potentially valuable assets.

hey have other things to do that make them more money. They'd rather be doing those things. Having someone else do it for them requires finding them, paying them, and supervising them, because they can't have something like a toolkit walking off when it could be profitable.

No shit. I already said that in my first response. They'll just hire someone to quickly go through these lots and find the valuable shit, and THEN they'll sell it to the end user as a mystery auction.

Your argument is completely incoherent. You are arguing that people will just give away valuable assets in mystery lots instead of just combing through them themselves. Naivety that would make most apes blush.