Boost Liquidation begins operating in Western North Carolina
A wholesale liquidation business begins buying customer-return inventory by the truckload and grading it for resale.
Boost Liquidation began operating in 2011, buying customer-return inventory by the truckload from a national returns broker and reselling it through wholesale lots, an online storefront and eventually a clearance floor.
Its operating discipline is what distinguishes it from the many businesses that have attempted the same trade. Rather than sorting arriving goods into sellable and scrap, the operation graded every item individually on a weighted scale, with the ability to recall a grading decision later. That produced a genuinely differentiated product for buyers, who could purchase to a known condition standard rather than gambling on a pallet, and it produced the operating data the business ran on. Company records from the period document a per-truckload economic model precise enough to state expected unit counts, per-item cost and a salvage rate.
The grading decision is the same decision Storage Unit Auction List made about listings, applied to physical goods: the value is not in the yes or no, it is in the grade and the reason attached to it.