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Aug 29, 2015
2:55:10pm
Need Advice or thoughts on how I offload excess inventory aside from KSL & eBay
Long story short, I got stuck with a ton of wireless routers and some other odds and ends for consumer networking from a mistake one of my employees made, probably about 5,000 pieces. I'm trying to blow the stuff out on eBay, but it's moving super slow, even though I'm low price leader in my product category. I tried sponsoring adds on Facebook to point people to my eBay pages, and that bumped up the views, but didn't lead to much in the way of sells. I listed this on KSL and it was a complete disaster. I had people calling me about items that were $10 and asking tons of questions and asking me to meet them at neutral locations which is a total waste of my time and energy (happened like 5 times before I removed the ads).

The brand is very popular in other areas of the world, but just not in the states. I've tried exporting, but because our dollar is so strong, nobody in Latin America or other areas of the world will touch the stuff. Any other thoughts on ways I could offload huge chunks of this? I've also tried various guys who specialize in buying overstocked or bad merchandise, but they want to pay me 15% of my cost and I'd rather try to at least break even.
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