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Buyers Guide To Buying Salvage Clothing - Buyers Guide To Salvage

Never confused salvage with surplus. They are two different types of goods.

Surplus goods may be perfect, and never touched by a consumer. Salvage goods are rarely perfect, and normally have a fairly high percentage of goods that are totally unusable and unsellable. In the garment industry, an experienced seamstress could recover many garments, and render them useful. This is only advised if it is factory salvage. You can not rework consumer salvage and resell it as NEW. You have to sell it as USED. Salvage panties and suimsuits that are NOT factory salvage, must be discarded, even if they have still have tags on them, and are considered a loss in the load.. These can easily comprise up to 50% of your load. Ask for written guaranties of these quantities. In this industry, it is always advisable to pick up your load. Otherwise, the possibilty that you are going to get taken, is very high. Buy in bulk, inspect the goods, pick your load, rent a truck and take it home

CHECK LIST - Things you need to know.

What store(s), if consumer salvage, are the goods originally from?

What year were the goods on the shelf or rack at the retail level (can be several years)?

What season are the goods from (winter, spring, summer, fall) ?

If the goods are mixed seasons, what are the percentages of each season ?

How many pieces of any given specific style will you receive ?

Are the sizes regular sizes, plus sizes, or a combination of both ?

What percentage of plus sizes are in a typical mixed lot or load ?

Do the garments come on factory hangers with dress bags? (indicates factory salvage)

Will the garments need steaming to be presentable to your buyers ?

Do the garments come in factory poly bags clearly labeled with size ?

Is the lot or load itemized on the packing slip or manifest ?