What Milwaukee and DeWalt tool lots close for

The population is the archive’s closed auctions: 248,231 lots that genuinely closed between 23 April and 14 October 2026, one row per lot, of which 233,351 carry a recorded bid. BStalker derives a canonical brand from each lot’s title and manifest text where a recognized name appears; 41,837 closings (16.9%) carry one. The other 83.1% are unbranded or mixed lots, and they appear in no cohort below.

Two scope notes before the numbers. A closing bid is the last bid observed before the lot left the feed, not a confirmed sale price; where nobody bid, it is the asking price the listing came down at. And every figure is bid only: buyer premium, tax and freight arrive on top, and none of them is in the numbers below. The print floor is 30 priced closings per cell; thinner cells are excluded or labeled thin.

Every tool brand above the 30-priced floor, measured 14 October 2026. The middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile:

Measured 14 October 2026. "Priced" is the count carrying a recorded bid, the denominator the median, the middle half and the per-unit figure are computed over. Closing windows: Craftsman lots closed 24 April to 13 October 2026; Stanley from 25 April; Milwaukee, DeWalt, Ryobi, Black & Decker, Bosch and Makita from 28 April; Snap-on from 14 June; Husky from 15 June; Kobalt from 16 June; Metabo from 9 July.

Read the median-units column first. Milwaukee, Stanley, Ryobi, Black & Decker, Bosch, Makita and Snap-on cohorts are single-item auctions at the median, so their median bids price one tool, not a pallet. Kobalt, Metabo, Husky and the multi-unit end of Craftsman are pallet-shaped: 46, 60, 26 and 20.5 units at the median. The two shapes share a search results page and nothing else.

One honest labeling note: Bosch appears here because its name is tool vocabulary, but most of its archived cohort is appliances, dishwashers and the like, and only 99 of its 169 closings carry a bid. Treat the Bosch row as a mixed appliances-and-tools read, not a power-tool read.

Milwaukee is the deepest tool-brand cohort in the archive after Craftsman: 866 closings, 857 of them priced, closing 28 April to 13 October 2026. The $50 median is a single-item median, and the middle half running $50 to $323 tells the real story: the bottom quarter is one tool at a local-auction price, the top quarter is multi-unit lots. Filed specifically under tools, Milwaukee lots close at a $360 median over 139 priced closings, 14.5 units at the median, $24.22 per unit.

DeWalt is the name this study exists for, and it is two markets in one brand. Of its 354 closings (315 priced, 28 April to 13 October 2026): the 150 filed under tools are mostly single-item auctions at an $18 median over 143 priced; the 75 filed under home goods are pallet-shaped, a $345 median on a 247-unit median lot, $2.06 per unit. DeWalt has no page on the brands index yet, because the index publishes only the top twenty brands by tracked closings; at 354 it sits outside that set, which is exactly the thin-data boundary this archive enforces everywhere else.

Where they sell differs too. 766 of Milwaukee’s 866 closings ran on Liquidation.com, split between 468 single-unit and 298 multi-unit lots; most of the rest are Musick Auction single items. DeWalt’s 169 Liquidation.com closings are nearly all multi-unit (167), while its 109 Musick and 42 QuickBidz closings are nearly all single items. The brand travels; the lot shape follows the marketplace.

The archive’s category is a classifier’s bucket, not a manifest, and brands cross file. The cells with 30 or more priced closings, measured 14 October 2026:

Measured 14 October 2026. Every cell rests on at least 30 priced closings except none: cells below the floor are simply not printed. "Not yet categorized" means the archive’s classifier has not bucketed those titles; read those rows as a mix. Kobalt and Metabo rows agree across filings because their lots are one consistent shape; Milwaukee, DeWalt and Ryobi split hard by filing.

The DeWalt pair is the lesson. A 247-unit DeWalt pallet filed under home goods and an 18-volt drill filed under tools are both "DeWalt lots" to a search engine, and they close two price regimes apart at the median, $345 against $18. The category label on the listing is the seller’s filing choice, so a brand search on any marketplace mixes both.

• Five of six closings carry no recognized brand. 206,394 of the 248,231 closed lots (83.1%) have no brand the archive can name, mostly unmanifested mixed pallets, so no brand table describes the typical lot.
• A brand in the title is not a brand on the manifest. The brand is derived from the listing’s own text; a "DeWalt pallet" cohort can include lots where DeWalt is the headline item among hundreds of others. The unit counts above are the seller’s published totals for the whole lot.
• A single-unit median prices one tool, not a pallet. For Milwaukee, Stanley, Ryobi, Makita, Black & Decker and Snap-on, the median lot is one item; compare those rows per unit, never per pallet.
• Category is a filing, not a contents list. DeWalt pallets sit under home goods because the classifier buckets the title, not because the lots contain furniture.
• A closing bid is the last bid observed before the lot left the feed, possibly a no-bid asking price, never a verified sale. Buyer premium, tax and freight all arrive on top.
• Bosch’s cohort is mostly appliances and only 99 of 169 of its closings are priced; Snap-on’s 49 priced closings clear the floor at brand level but nowhere else. Thinner brands, Ridgid, Hilti, Dremel and the rest, are absent entirely: under 30 priced closings, a median is a coin flip and this archive does not print coin flips.
• These figures are a snapshot of the archive on 14 October 2026. The archive grows daily and the medians drift with it.

The brands index carries a page per top-twenty brand, recomputed from the same archive on its own schedule: what brands actually close for is the hub, and the Milwaukee page is the deepest tool-brand read on it. The sample feed shows live lots with the same cost-per-unit math on every card, no account needed, the power-tools niche page frames the category end to end, and the free pallet calculator folds a lot’s bid, premium and freight into a landed cost per unit on your own numbers. The earlier power-tool closings study prices the category without the brand split.