Clock
The price steps down on a schedule published in advance. First to accept buys.
Liquidation Market · cargo terminal
Closing or clearing stock? Sell it straight to the buyer.
A venue where businesses list their own closeout stock, fixtures and equipment, and buyers pay them directly. Plans from $1.95 a month, a small success fee on what sells, and no fees for buyers.
Try the practice auction Join the founding-seller list
Seller plans $1.95/month or $19.50/year and up · Free during preview · plus any sales tax that applies · plans · fees
In preview Nothing is for sale yet. Prices are shown exactly as they will be charged; during the preview nothing is charged and every fee is waived. Try the practice auction (play money).
The venue
A place to sell, not a seller
Liquidator.news never owns, holds or prices the goods, and never touches a buyer’s money. That is what keeps it simple and keeps it honest.
What the Market is
- A venue: businesses and people list their own goods and sell them directly to buyers.
- Buyers pay the seller directly, through the seller’s own PayPal Goods & Services or checkout.
- Sellers pay WeldonPC a monthly plan and a small fee on each sold lot. Buyers pay no fees at all.
What it is not
- Not an auctioneer, auction firm, liquidator, consignee or escrow agent; never the seller.
- Never holds, receives or forwards a buyer’s money; no wallets, no stored balances.
- No live or called auctions, no penny auctions, no bid fees, no buyer’s premium.
Three formats
Pick how each lot sells
Every countdown is the real server end time. No fake urgency: no “only N left”, no viewer counts, no timers that reset.
Clock (markdown)
You set a start price, a floor, how much it drops and how often (every 6 hours or more, or daily at a set hour). The whole schedule is published on the lot before it starts. The first buyer to accept the price shown buys at that price or lower, never higher.
Fixed price
“Buy now at $X.” The first buyer wins; anyone a moment later sees that it sold and that nothing was charged. No offers, no haggling in messages.
Timed (silent bids)
Bidders set a hidden maximum and the system bids for them one step at a time. A bid with less than two minutes left moves the end to two minutes after that bid. Optional secret reserve and buy-now. Built and tested, but switched off until a lawyer confirms it under Ohio auction law. The practice auction runs the same engine with play money.
Seller plans
A monthly plan and a small fee on what sells
No listing fees, no insertion fees, no buyer fees. Cancel with one click; the plan runs to the end of the term you paid for.
Starter
$1.95/month
or $19.50/year
Free during preview- Live lots
- 5
- Photos
- up to 8 per lot (photo upload opens with selling)
- Success fee
- 3% of the price
Clock and fixed-price lots (timed lots once bidding opens); pickup, flat-rate shipping or buyer-arranged freight.
Plus any sales tax that applies.
Pro
$9.95/month
or $99.50/year
Free during preview- Live lots
- 50
- Photos
- up to 16 per lot (photo upload opens with selling)
- Success fee
- 2.5% of the price
Everything in Starter, with up to 50 live lots and a 2.5% success fee.
Plus any sales tax that applies.
Business
$29.95/month
or $299.50/year
Free during preview- Live lots
- 300
- Photos
- up to 24 per lot (photo upload opens with selling)
- Success fee
- 2% of the price
Everything in Pro, with up to 300 live lots and a 2% success fee.
Plus any sales tax that applies.
Success fee: 3% / 2.5% / 2% of the sold price, at least $0.25, never more than 10% of the price, at most $50.00 a lot before any sales tax, plus any sales tax that applies. On a $40.00 sale a Starter seller pays $1.20, waived during preview. All fees and examples.
How a sale runs
From listing to loading dock
Liquidator.news records each step; the money moves between buyer and seller only.
- List. A verified seller lists a lot with photos, condition, location, pickup or shipping terms, and the removal and rigging details.
- Sell. The Clock, the fixed price or the timed bidding ends in one buyer, never two.
- Pay the seller. The buyer has 2 days to pay the seller directly by PayPal Goods & Services or the seller’s checkout. The seller confirms receipt.
- Pick up. The pickup address is shown only after payment. Buyer and seller message each other on the sale page; problems go through an on-site dispute with a 3-business-day reply window.
Rules that protect buyers
What cannot be listed
Weapons, alcohol and tobacco, drugs and Rx devices, recalled children’s products, hazardous materials, counterfeits, catalytic converters and scrap, titled vehicles, tickets and gift cards, and more. Every listing passes an automatic word screen before it goes live, every seller attests each lot, and anyone can report a lot. No automatic screen catches everything: report anything that gets through. The full list and the reasons.
Payment requests that are screened
Listings and messages that ask for Zelle, wire transfers, crypto, gift cards, “friends and family”, Cash App, Venmo, money orders or cash by mail are refused automatically; report any that get through. Those are how buyers lose money with no recourse.
Categories
Business assets, not everything
- Business closeouts
- Overstock and returns
- Restaurant equipment
- Shop and industrial equipment
- Office and IT equipment
- Construction tools
- Medical-office furniture
- Store fixtures and POS hardware
- Estate and household lots
Market lots never appear on the filing or company pages of the wire. A bankruptcy filing on the wire is not a sale, and nothing on this site implies a filer’s assets are for sale.
Founding sellers
Selling a closeout this year?
Join the founding-seller list. We store your name, email, state and what you sell so we can contact you when selling opens. No email is sent now and there is nothing to pay. There is no limit on places and no special terms are promised.
Practice auction
See the bidding before it opens
Four invented lots, simulated rivals and play money, on the real bidding engine: proxy maximums, the two-minute soft close, a secret reserve and buy-now. Each lot ends every 15 minutes.