Liquidation auction statistics
A live snapshot of the liquidation-auction market as 2026 unfolds: every figure computed from real auction records BStalker holds across nine marketplaces. These are our own numbers, not an industry estimate.
In the aisle, this count reads lower: 6,721 lots. On every plan that reaches the aisle, the feed hides single-item listings by default. The Filter door’s “single items” toggle turns them back on. A free account never reaches the aisle at all, only a capped preview.
Every measured figure on this page, this band included, was computed together on 2026-09-30 UTC and kept current.
That’s 348,700 lot records on file across live and archived inventory. A lot that was re-listed and re-archived counts each time it appeared.
01Live inventory right now
Across every source we track, 65,865 auction lots are live right now: footwear is the deepest classified category (18,242 live lots) and 888 Lots the deepest single source.
Counted from the source’s current listings. The aisle applies a narrower scope. It hides single-item listings by default, which only affects sources that sell singles, and it counts more recently than this page, so the two rarely match exactly. A free account never reaches the aisle at all, only a capped preview.
Uncategorized 23,316. The rows above are the sixteen keyword buckets; every live lot the classifier declines to bucket lands here, so the two together account for the headline.
How we measure“Live” means a lot whose auction still has time left, or a fixed-price catalog lot still listed, at each source’s most recent scan. The headline “live lots now” is that same measurement grouped a different way, per-source and per-category counts apply the identical rule, so the columns and the headline describe one population, counted twice. Each is its own count, taken a moment apart, so a lot crossing its deadline in between can leave them a handful apart in either direction. In the aisle, the feed reads lower than either column: on every plan that reaches the aisle it hides single-item listings by default, which the Filter door can turn back on, and a free account never reaches the aisle at all: only a capped preview. A count ending in + is a floor: 888 Lots lists more than we track, so its count is a minimum.
02What lots close for, by category
Of the auctions BStalker has tracked to close, home goods lots close at a median of $40: the highest bid published before the auction closed, across 35,809 priced closings. It is a closing bid, not a confirmed sale price.
How we measureMedian = the middle value across priced closed auctionswhose title matched the category (the same category match the live feed uses). Only auctions that actually closed count, never live or fixed-price catalog lots, and a category appears only past a minimum sample of priced closings. “Median close” is the highest bid published before the gavel; “median $/unit” divides that by the lot’s unit count where the source lists one. Unit counts are scarcer than you’d expect: our measured breakdown of what these marketplaces actually sell lives in most liquidation marketplaces don’t sell pallets.
03Discount vs stated retail
Across 43,408 closed B-Stock auctions where the seller published a retail value, the median lot’s leading bid lands at 9% of stated retail: roughly 91% below MSRP, by B-Stock’s own published figure.
How we measureThis is B-Stock’s own published “% of MSRP” figure, not our estimate, and it covers B-Stock lots only: the other eight marketplaces don’t publish a comparable retail value. We take the median across closed B-Stock auctions that carried a positive retail figure (n = 43,408); the discount is simply 100% minus that share. Retail values are seller-reported. It measures what winning bidders pay relative to stated retail. Not sell-through (the share of a lot’s units a buyer later resells), which no marketplace we track publishes and BStalker does not measure.
04When auctions close
BStalker’s closed-auction record clusters on Mondays: 22% of the 207,995 tracked closings land that day (UTC), and the single busiest hour is 19:00–20:00 UTC.
How we measureCounts every archived auction that had a real closing time, bucketed by the day and hour of that close normalized to UTC (so the pattern is stable regardless of where the page is served). Fixed-price catalog lots, which never “close”, are excluded. UTC runs several hours ahead of US time zones, so a US-afternoon close often lands in the UTC evening.
05How long lots stay listed
A tracked auction stays in BStalker’s feed a median of 2 days from the moment we first record it to the moment it closes. Across the 207,995 closings we also saw arrive.
How we measureMeasured as the span from when a lot first appears in the feed to its closing time. That needs both moments, so it counts only the closings the feed also saw arrive: a subset of the closings above, never more than them. It reflects how long a lot is visible in our feed: not the seller’s original listing age, which the source doesn’t always expose.
06How we measure, in one place
Every number on this page is computed directly from real auction records BStalker’s own feed holds. There are three rules we hold to:
- Only what we tracked. Nothing here is projected to an “industry” total or estimated by hand. Every figure is a count or a median over records we actually hold.
- Medians, with a floor.We report medians (the middle value), which shrug off the occasional $30k truckload outlier, and we only publish a per-category or per-source median once it clears a minimum sample: a median over a handful of lots isn’t trustworthy.
- Closed auctions for prices. Price and timing stats use auctions that actually closed. Closing prices are the highest bid published before the auction ended: a strong signal, but not a confirmed sale price, and never a recommendation to buy.
The figures are kept current. Want the moving version? Category price trends track the same medians month by month, and Source status shows which marketplaces are live right now.
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