30–80% higher recovery
Competitive, transparent formats consistently recover far more than single-buyer deals. One buyer with no rival bids the minimum you'll accept.
Surplus & returns · Nationwide (USA)
Your dead inventory, cleared in days — not quarters.
Photograph one aging lot with your phone. Our AI turns it into a typed manifest in about a minute — list it on the yard and competing buyers make real offers, usually within a week. You set a floor, so you never sell below your number. Zero commission for founding sellers. Buying instead? Bring an AI — Claude can browse, haggle, and buy for you, under caps you set.
Start with the free appraisal — photograph a lot, get a manifest and what it should recover, no signup. No contract, no exclusivity, no fee. If the offers don't beat your broker, keep your broker. The premise in one line, borrowed from the people who buy this stuff for a living: lots aren't good or bad — they're more or less transparent.We're the transparent kind.
What does your surplus actually recover?
$1.5k – $4k
typical recovery · median 10.1% of retail for consumer electronics
From published liquidation-auction data — see the full benchmarks. Manifested lots with verified condition land at the top of this range; unmanifested lots at the bottom.
0%Founding commission
~1 weekTo your first offers
30–80%Higher recovery via competition
Three sides of the yard
Which side are you on?
Sellers
You're sitting on surplus
Aging lots, customer returns, the awkward pallets in row K. Photograph one — the AI manifests it, it lists on the yard in front of competing buyers, and the offers come to you. You set the floor; zero commission for founding sellers.
Appraise a pallet freeBuyers
You buy surplus to resell
Liquidators, resellers, exporters, refurbishers. Browse the yard — every lot manifested before it lists — or register a spec once and matching lots come to you by email.
Browse the yardAgents
You have an AI — or you are one
Claude can browse the yard, negotiate, and close deals on your behalf — under spending caps you set and it can never exceed. Two minutes to connect, real MCP protocol, nothing simulated.
Connect ClaudeLive on the yard
Real lots, out in the open.
Every lot manifested before it lists — counts, condition grade, recovery estimate. Browse freely; a free account opens the full manifest and lets you offer.
How it works
Four steps. You only decide at step three.
1
Photograph what you're sitting on
Run it through the free appraiser — you get the manifest and a recovery estimate in about a minute, whether or not you sell through us. An email with photos works too.
2
It's manifested and listed on the yard
The AI builds the manifest — counts, condition grades, weight & freight class where the photos support it — and your lot goes on the yard in front of every matching buyer, not one broker with one number.
3
You see the offers. You decide.
Set a floor price up front and we never go below it. Accept the best offer, or walk away and you owe nothing. Your floor is never shown to buyers.
4
Payment held, then released
Buyer funds are held by MarketYard before the truck rolls and released to you on delivery confirmation. No chasing invoices.
Being straight with you: the yard is young, so buyer demand is still building — but the whole flow is self-serve and live today, and founding sellers pay zero commission while we grow it. You keep full control: set your floor, accept the offer you like, or walk.
Why competing offers beat one phone call
The broker on speed-dial has no reason to bid up.
This isn't our opinion — it's what the liquidation data says. Three findings from published auction reports, all of which cost you money today:
Competition
Manifests
Blind lots get discounted
Unmanifested pallets clear at 10–20¢ on the retail dollar. Buyers price the unknown into every bid. A proper manifest is the cheapest money you'll ever make.
Lot size
The $10k cliff
Lots over $10,000 retail see recovery medians collapse. Splitting a truckload into pallets routinely nets more in total — most sellers never test this.
Benchmark your last deal in two minutes. Take what your broker paid, divide by the lot's retail value, and compare it to the median for your category.
See the benchmarksHow this is different
Software, not a middleman.
MarketYard is a platform, not a broker. The AI writes your manifest; the yard puts it in front of buyers; you accept, counter, or pass yourself — no one in the middle marking up your lot or sitting on your offers. Every number is yours to see.
It's small and new, and we'd rather earn a handful of sellers properly than sign up a hundred who never hear back. A real person still reads every email — hello@marketyard.com.
Straight answers
The questions you're actually asking
Who's going to buy my inventory?
Fair question, and the honest answer matters: we're new, so the buyer pool is still growing — liquidators, pallet resellers, exporters, refurbishers who register what they buy. Your lot lists on the yard and goes to every buyer whose spec it matches. If it doesn't draw an offer worth taking, you've lost nothing — no fee, no exclusivity, and the free appraisal was useful either way.
What does it cost me?
Nothing. Founding sellers pay 0% commission — no listing fee, no success fee, no minimum. We're buying proof that this works, not revenue. Later, standard pricing will be a take rate well under typical broker spread, and you'll know it before it applies to you.
I already have a broker I trust. Why bother?
Keep them. Give us the lots they're slow on — the aged stuff, the awkward categories, the pallets sitting in row K since spring. If we clear them faster or higher, you've found a second channel. If we don't, you've confirmed your broker is good, which is worth knowing too.
How do I know I'll actually get paid?
Buyer funds are held by MarketYard before anything leaves your dock, and released to you on delivery confirmation. You're not shipping into the void and chasing an invoice for 60 days.
What if the buyer claims the goods weren't as described?
That's why every lot is photographed and graded up front — the manifest is the record, and it protects you as much as the buyer. Disputes get resolved against the evidence, not against whoever argues hardest.
Do I have to use some AI system?
From where you sit it's just photos in, a manifest and offers out. AI drafts the manifest in a minute (you can correct it), and machine-readable listings let automated buyers find your lot too — which means more eyes on it. If you'd rather email photos and have us set it up, that works too — hello@marketyard.com.
Founding sellers
Start with one lot.
Photograph what you're sitting on and see what it should recover — free, about a minute, no signup. List it when you're ready. No commitment, no commission.
Or leave your details and we'll help you list
Questions? Email hello@marketyard.com — a real person answers.