Sell excess small and major appliances

Small appliances and major appliances are two different trades

We make offers on both, but they sell to different people and are judged differently.

Small appliances are countertop and handheld products: air fryers, blenders, coffee makers, toasters, slow cookers, mixers, vacuums, fans, heaters, irons and hair dryers. They ship boxed on pallets or loose in gaylords. Buyers include discount stores, bin stores, online resellers and exporters.

Major appliances are refrigerators, freezers, ranges, dishwashers, washers and dryers. They ship one unit per crate or blanket-wrapped, often on a dedicated truck. Buyers are scratch-and-dent outlets, appliance resellers, property managers, and exporters with the right voltage needs.

How condition is graded

Small appliances

Completeness is the main question. A coffee maker without its carafe or an air fryer without its basket has lost most of its resale value, because replacement parts are hard to get.

Major appliances

On major appliances, the location of damage matters. Photograph every damaged face and tell us whether the unit was tested.

What else moves the price?

Model year and finish. Stainless and current finishes sell more easily than discontinued colors. Last year's model is fine; models several years old are harder.

Voltage and plug. US household appliances are 120 V, 60 Hz with North American plugs. The Gulf, most of Africa, Europe and much of Asia use 220 to 240 V at 50 Hz. Unless the product is dual voltage, it needs a transformer abroad, which many end buyers will not accept. Heating appliances (kettles, toasters, space heaters) draw too much power for small converters. Before counting on an export buyer, check the rating plate on each model: dual-voltage items (marked 100–240 V) travel well, single-voltage 120 V items mostly stay in the Americas, where several markets share the North American standard.

Cube and freight. A trailer of boxed air fryers fills by space, not weight. Major appliances take one crate per floor position unless stackable. Freight can be a large share of the deal on bulky items far from buyers. The live logistics block on this page shows estimate ranges from where your goods are.

Safety listing. Buyers and their customers look for a UL or ETL mark on electric appliances. Gas appliances need their certification labels and gas-type conversion parts.

Put together, the order of value is predictable: new in box above tested returns, tested above untested, complete above missing parts. Where live sold-deal data exists, the recovery block on this page shows the current band; without it, judge your lot by how many of these factors it has in its favor.

Manuals, parts and warranty: what travels with the unit

Resellers of major appliances usually sell installation as well, so they need everything that came in the crate: water-line kits for refrigerators, anti-tip brackets for ranges, drain hoses and shipping bolts for washers, and power cords where the maker does not fit one. A range missing its anti-tip bracket cannot be installed to the maker's instructions, and a reseller has to source the part before selling it. Keep parts bags taped inside the unit.

Manufacturer warranty normally runs to the original purchaser from an authorized dealer. Closeout units are usually sold without it, and resellers offer their own short cover or none. Do not advertise warranty coverage to us unless you can show the maker has agreed it carries over. If a maker does agree to honor warranty on closeout units, get it in writing on letterhead, naming the models and serial ranges, so a reseller can show it to their customer.

For small appliances, the manual and quick-start card matter less, but the cord, plug and any detachable parts matter a lot. A stand mixer without its bowl or beater is a parts unit.

Recalls and safety

Appliances are recalled for fire, shock and burn hazards more often than many categories. Before selling, check your model numbers and serial ranges against U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall notices, and remove any affected units. If a recall comes out after the sale, model and serial records let the units be traced. We will not make an offer on products we know are recalled.

Checklist: what to send for an appliance offer

1. Brand, model number and description per line
2. Quantity per model, and serial numbers for major appliances
3. Grade per unit, from the tables above
4. Accessories present or missing (for small appliances)
5. Tested or untested; what the test covered
6. Voltage and plug type if not standard US
7. Retail price per unit
8. Packaging: boxed, crated, blanket-wrapped, gaylords
9. Photos: each damaged face on major appliances; an open box and a pallet for small appliances
10. Pallet or unit count, location, dock and forklift availability
11. Any channel conditions you need, such as no online resale or no resale in your market area

Where appliance sellers lose money

• Mixing working and non-working units without saying which is which
• Separating small-appliance accessories from their bases during returns processing
• Leaving recalled models in the lot
• Storing major appliances outside or stacked without crates
• Quoting export interest without checking voltage
• Not mentioning that a forklift or liftgate is needed at pickup

A worked example

For illustration only, not market data: a home-goods retailer clears returned small kitchen appliances from its returns center, a few hundred air fryers, blenders and coffee makers loose in gaylords. A separate group of major appliances is scratch-and-dent from its delivery fleet, crated.

The retailer sorts complete from incomplete before pickup, which earns a better small-appliance offer than one blended number. Major appliances go on a separate truck with a liftgate. All models are checked against recall lists first.

To see the buying side, visit wholesale closeout appliances. Portable electronics have their own page: sell excess electronics. Send your model list and damage photos through the offer form here.