The salvage business involves the buying and selling of salvaged goods; Salvage refers to goods that have been damaged, partially destroyed or expired but still have value. Like the surplus goods business this business allows businesses to get some return on "dead" stock and others to get stock at a cheap price to sell in a low-cost channel. 

What is salvage

Traditionally salvage is stock that was written off damaged, partially destroyed or expired but still have value

  • Damaged

  • Expired

  • Rejects

Time sensitive salvage

Selling

This is a business that you can start with as little as a market stall from your local municipal market and should be operating from a sales channel that is as cheap as possible.

Business Model

This business buys from manufacturers, traders, distributors, wholesalers and even retailers and resells it to consumers at a lower cost that what it would retail for in the shops.

Sourcing

It takes effort to cultivate good quality leads and connections in competitive markets like salvage and get good prices. People who have suppliers guard their sources with their lives that is why low-effort cold emailing does not usually get you anywhere as that does not work in high-demand businesses where demand exceed supply and where most successful people are knocking on doors of factories already you must either knock on doors yourself or use the marketplace below to source (or both). 

Industry
Surplus & Salvage
Surplus Goods
Time-sensitive Salvage