Furniture cost-per-unit trend

Each point is the monthly median cost-per-unit across priced furniture 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.

Furniture lots span customer-return sofas and sectionals, overstock mattresses, flat-pack bedroom sets, and dining furniture. Big-box returns (Costco upholstery loads, Walmart and Target flat-pack) move by the pallet or truckload; auction houses list single high-value pieces. Condition ranges from new-in-box overstock to returns needing light repair, so the manifest and photos carry most of the signal. Furniture is freight-heavy and bulky, which is why the cost-per-unit, bid plus freight, matters far more than the headline bid on these lots.

Furniture cost-per-unit swings hard on freight because the lots are bulky and often truckload-scale. A low bid on a Costco upholstery load can double once line-haul is added. BStalker shows the freight-inclusive per-unit number (bid + shipping) where the platform exposes a quote, so you compare lanes, not just bids.

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 furniture lots page.