Liquidation Market
How the Liquidation Market works
Sellers list their own goods; buyers buy from them and pay them directly. Liquidator.news runs the venue, the rules and the records, and is never the seller.
Who can sell
Sellers confirm their email, verify their identity with “Log in with PayPal” and choose a plan. The seller badge on each lot says exactly what was checked and when (for example “Email confirmed 2026-10-01 · PayPal says this account is verified (checked 2026-10-02) · Business (seller-stated)”) and never more. Sellers accept the seller agreement and give a pickup address, which only a paying buyer sees. New sellers can have 5 live lots and prices (with shipping) up to $2,500.00 until 30 days have passed and 3 sales have completed without a dispute.
Who can buy
Anyone 18 or older with a confirmed email. Buying is free. Until a first purchase completes, a buyer can have 3 open winning bids or unpaid purchases, up to $1,000.00 in total. A seller, its helper login, and accounts linked to it (same device, address, payment email or business email domain) cannot bid on or buy that seller’s lots.
Timed bidding, exactly
- You enter a hidden maximum; the system bids for you one increment at a time. Equal maximums go to the earlier one.
- Increments: under $25, $1.00; to $100, $2.50; to $500, $5.00; to $1,000, $10.00; to $2,500, $25.00; to $5,000, $50.00; then $100.00.
- Soft close: a bid with less than 2 minutes left moves the end to 2 minutes after that bid. A bid at or after the end time is refused.
- A reserve is secret; bidders see only “Reserve met” or “Reserve not met”. The opening bid can never be above it.
- You review every bid before it is placed. A typo can be withdrawn within 5 minutes, never in the last hour, once per lot and three times in 180 days, and never if the bid made you the high bidder or met the reserve. Withdrawn bids stay in the bid history, marked withdrawn.
- Shill bidding is banned and checked nightly. Timed bidding is switched off until it is confirmed under Ohio auction law (R.C. 4707); the practice auction shows how it works.
After the sale
- The buyer has 2 calendar days to pay the seller using the seller’s PayPal Goods & Services or the seller’s own checkout, as shown on the sale page.
- The buyer can mark “I paid”; only the seller’s “payment received” completes payment and reveals the pickup address.
- Pickup is arranged through the messages on the sale page, within 3 business days, in the seller’s pickup hours. Equipment lots say who handles removal and rigging, whether there is a dock or forklift, and whether a certificate of insurance is required.
- If a buyer does not pay, the seller can cancel the sale (no fee; a strike for the buyer) and may offer it to the runner-up at the runner-up’s maximum. If the buyer marked the sale paid, a “Not paid” problem opens instead and the buyer has 3 business days to answer.
Problems
Either side can open “Problem with this sale”. The other side has 3 business days (Monday to Friday, not counting federal holidays, Eastern time) to reply on the site; no reply means a strike. Both sides can agree to void a sale. Refunds are between buyer and seller: buyers who paid by PayPal can use PayPal’s Resolution Center or a card chargeback. Three strikes in 12 months suspend an account.
What we keep
See the Market section of the privacy page.