Home Goods cost-per-unit trend

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

Home goods is one of the broadest categories — kitchenware, small appliances (air fryers, blenders, coffee makers), bedding, and decor. Big-box general-merchandise returns feed most of the volume across the platforms. Small appliances carry a meaningful return-defect rate, so condition grade and working assumption matter; textiles and decor are usually shelf-pull or overstock.

Home goods per-unit varies widely because the category is so broad — a small-appliance pallet and a decor pallet behave differently at the same per-unit cost. BStalker shows the listed per-unit number; the manifest tells you which sub-mix you are actually buying.

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 home goods lots page.