Appliances cost-per-unit trend

Each point is the monthly median cost-per-unit across priced appliances lots — the middle value, not an average, so one outlier truckload can’t drag the line. A live lot counts in the month it first appeared in the feed; an ended lot counts in the month it closed. Lots match the category by their title — the same category match the live feed uses — and cost per unit is the lot’s price divided by its listed unit count, where the source publishes one.

Months with fewer than 30 priced lots render as insufficient data and stay off the chart — a median over a handful of lots isn’t trustworthy. That floor gates the chart, the “Months with data” stat, and the month table above alike.

The lots behind the series come from the nine marketplaces BStalker scans: Liquidation.com, B-Stock, DirectLiquidation, 888 Lots, Via Trading, BlueLots, GovDeals, Musick, and QuickBidz. Sitewide medians, discount-vs-retail, and closing-time patterns are on the statistics page.

Appliance lots split cleanly into two shapes. Major appliances — refrigerators, washers, dryers, ranges, dishwashers — move as scratch-and-dent pallets and laundry-suite truckloads, usually from big-box returns and open-box programs. Small appliances arrive as mixed parcel pallets: microwaves, air conditioners, humidifiers, and countertop machines. Condition language is unusually specific in this category and worth reading literally, because "scratch and dent" describes cosmetic damage on a working unit while "customer return" on the same shelf may not power on at all. Piece counts are low and unit values are high, so a single non-working item moves the per-unit math further here than it does in a thousand-piece apparel lot.

Appliance lots are heavy and low-count, which makes freight the dominant term in cost-per-unit — a truckload of laundry suites can carry more shipping than bid. BStalker shows the freight-inclusive per-unit number where the platform publishes a quote, and the listed condition grade beside it. It does not estimate what share of the units power on.

What goes into a per-unit number — bids, buyer premiums, freight — is covered in liquidation pallet costs explained, and the live lots themselves are on the appliances lots page.