Jewelry cost-per-unit trend

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

Jewelry lots are mostly fashion jewelry and accessories, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, watch accessories, high piece-count and low per-piece cost. These are returns and overstock rather than fine jewelry. The brand and style mix on the manifest drives sell-through; condition is typically new or shelf-pull.

Jewelry per-unit is low with high piece counts, so the style and brand mix on the manifest, not the bid, drives whether the lot works. BStalker shows the per-unit cost where units are listed.

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 jewelry lots page.