Beauty cost-per-unit trend

Each point is the monthly median cost-per-unit across priced beauty lots: the middle value, not an average, so one outlier truckload can’t drag the line. Cost per unit is the lot’s price divided by its listed unit count, where the source publishes one, and each month’s figure is the median across that month’s priced lots.

Sparse months render as insufficient data and stay off the chart: a median over a handful of lots isn’t trustworthy. That rule gates the chart, the “Months with data” stat, and the month table above alike.

The lots behind the series come from the nine marketplaces in the feed: 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.

Beauty lots cover skincare, makeup, fragrance, and haircare. Usually high piece-count and shelf-pull or overstock condition. Expiration dating and seal condition are the category-specific details to confirm, because beauty is a consumable. Auction and wholesale platforms both carry department-store and drugstore returns.

Beauty per-unit is low and piece counts high, but expiration and seal condition gate sell-through in a way other categories do not. BStalker shows the per-unit cost; confirm dating and condition on the manifest yourself.

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 beauty lots page.