What a pallet of home goods actually sells for

Split the 27,929 closed home-goods lots by shape and two populations fall out. One is single-item auctions, the lamp or the cookware set sold on its own, which local auction houses run by the thousand. The other is multi-unit lots: pallets, gaylords and truckloads of mixed home goods. Both turn up for the same searches, and only one of them is the pallet a reseller means.

Medians over the 90 days ending 17 September 2026. For the multi-unit half, the middle 50% closed between $50 and $700 per lot, and between $1.25 and $7.14 per unit.

The median multi-unit home-goods lot held 57 units. The mean is 185, which says less about a typical pallet and more about the truckload listings dragging it upward; the median is the honest center here. At the median per-unit figure of $2.98, this is the cheapest of the big categories by the unit: bedding, kitchenware, decor and small appliances, not rows of furniture.

Condition is the other half of the picture. Condition labels are each marketplace’s own, canonicalized across the nine platforms, and this is the mix the 18,754 multi-unit lots closed in:

New-condition stock, the New through Shelf Pulls row alone, is 3,565 of 18,754 lots (19%). The bulk of this market is returns and used goods.

These are hammer prices. The buyer premium, tax and freight arrive on top, and on home goods freight can be bigger than the bid itself, as the freight section below measures. What 23,105 real freight quotes show is the measured version of that half of the bill, and the all-in arithmetic, component by component, is in liquidation pallet costs explained.

Home goods is the best-labelled category in the archive: 18,320 of the 18,754 multi-unit lots (98%) carry a retail or MSRP figure. On those lots the median close was 6.9% of the sticker, with the middle half between 3.3% and 11.2%.

Sticker figures are the seller’s own label, and the units behind them are mostly the returns and used stock above. Read the ratio as how the market priced the pallet, not as a discount anyone can bank.

The two biggest sources price nothing alike against the sticker: Liquidation.com’s home-goods supply closes at a median 4.0% of its published figure, B-Stock’s at 8.3%, and QuickBidz’s smaller book at 20.1%. Different storefronts, different mixes, different seller contracts; the category average hides all of it.

3,583 of the 18,754 lots (19%) carry a shipping quote in the archive, most of them B-Stock lots where the checkout generates one. On those, the median quote was $1,661, and the median quote came to 237.5% of the lot’s final bid. Home goods are bulky and cheap by the unit, so this is the category where freight most often decides whether the math works at all.

Quotes are computed per buyer account and per destination, so these 3,583 describe one buyer’s lanes, not a rate card. The shipping-costs guide walks the four-step method for getting a real number before bidding, and the free pallet calculator folds it into your landed cost per unit.

Closed multi-unit home-goods lots by marketplace, same 90-day window. Liquidation.com and B-Stock together account for 16,204 of the 18,754 lots, 86% of the multi-unit home-goods supply we tracked:

888 Lots, DirectLiquidation and Via Trading are fixed-price storefronts: their listings carry no auction end date, so a "close" there is the listing coming down at its asking price, not a bid-winning moment.

The live version of this table is the home-goods category page, which lists the home-goods lots open right now across the same marketplaces.

For context, the same measurement run across every category in the archive, all lot shapes mixed. The home-goods row reads $75 per median lot here precisely because the single-item half is folded back in; the pallet-only median is the $239 above.

109,841 closed lots across 17 categories in the 90 days ending 17 September 2026. The monthly medians per category live on the price-trends pages, the marketplace-level numbers on the statistics page.

• "Final bid" is the bid at our last scan before the lot left the feed. It can be a no-bid asking price: 8,394 of the 18,139 multi-unit lots with a bid counter on record (46%) showed zero bids at that last scan, so their figure is the asking or minimum price, not a contested close.
• Every figure is bid only. Buyer premium, tax and freight come on top, and none of them is in these medians.
• One lot counts once. The archive keeps several snapshots of a long-running listing; these medians are computed over one canonical record per lot, the last one.
• The sticker-price ratios cover the 98% of lots that publish a sticker figure, and the sticker itself is the seller’s own number.
• The window is 19 June to 17 September 2026. A different 90 days prices a different market.

To see the live supply behind these numbers, the sample feed needs no account.