Overstock happens when department stores overestimate the demand for an item. Sometimes merchandise is unusual: say, a pair of pleather, cheetah-print overalls.

Instead, they sell pallets of returned or excess merchandise at steep discounts to liquidators, who distribute the goods to small-business owners.

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But you’ll find that many major retailers are selling merchandise on this site, including: Wayfair Liquidations, Target, Lowe’s, Amazon, Ferguson, and Overstock.

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Most goods, which include closeout and overstock merchandise from other stores like furnishings, rugs and appliances, are marked down by 25%.

Big Lots, the national discount retailer that sells closeout and overstock merchandise, is closing all its 963 stores across the country, including its two York County locations.

Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, a closeout and overstock merchandise chain, has opened four stores in the St. Louis region in the last 18 months with plans for a fifth.

A retail concept selling new, thrift and overstock merchandise from Anthropologie, Free People, Urban Outfitters and Nuuly has opened within an hour drive of Milwaukee, in Gurnee, Illinois ...

A retail concept selling new, thrift and overstock merchandise from Anthropologie, Free People, Urban Outfitters and Nuuly has opened within an hour drive of Milwaukee, in Gurnee, Illinois ...

Bin stores, like Retail Bins, buy overstock and returned merchandise from big-name stores. Retail Bins gets its pallets from Amazon, Walmart, JCPenney and Target.

The pallets are are sold at a huge discount to any seller willing to take that gamble. Buying Amazon returns could make you a lot of money by refurbishing and reselling the used merchandise online.