About United Liquidations
We help businesses resolve excess inventory challenges quickly—freeing up capacity, liquidity, and focus while keeping usable goods productive.
What We Do
We purchase surplus, overstock, and returned inventory directly from mid-market and enterprise retailers, manufacturers, and logistics operators, managing the disposition process end to end as a primary downstream buyer.
Excess inventory ties up working capital, consumes warehouse space, and diverts attention from core operations. When goods stop moving, decisions stall. We provide a clear, execution-focused path forward—turning idle inventory into liquidity and restoring operational momentum.
Our partners include retailers, wholesalers, eCommerce operators, manufacturers, third-party logistics providers, and teams responsible for reverse logistics, asset disposition, and inventory transitions. In many cases, we also support companies navigating store closures, program wind-downs, or major operational changes.
We separate ourselves by providing accurate evaluation, clear pricing, coordinated logistics, and disciplined resale through established secondary-market channels. The objective is to resolve the inventory issue without creating new ones downstream.
How We Operate
Our approach is shaped by practical execution and how inventory actually moves through warehouses and supply chains.
Direct Purchasing
Inventory is acquired outright, creating clear ownership, defined timelines, and fewer variables. In many cases, we structure standing purchase contracts or repeat buying agreements with our customers.
Operational Understanding
We account for freight, labor constraints, space limitations, and handling realities when structuring offers and disposition paths.
Speed with Structure
We move quickly, but not loosely. Inputs are clear, decisions are firm, and follow-through is consistent.
Single-Threaded Accountability
One owner from intake through resale. No hand-offs. No ambiguity.
This approach is why we're trusted by national retailers, large manufacturers, and logistics operators who need to depend on us to move inventory quickly and at scale.
An End-to-End Inventory Solution
United Liquidations operates across the full secondary-market lifecycle.
Through our liquidation wholesale company, Surplus Depot, we sell inventory locally across Chicagoland, nationally, and internationally through export channels when appropriate. We work directly with discount stores, independent retailers, auction houses, and professional resellers who consistently move volume.
Because we operate on both the acquisition and resale sides of the secondary market, we maintain direct, current relationships with upstream sellers and downstream buyers, keeping pricing, velocity, and execution tightly aligned. Direct access to end buyers—domestic and export—gives us current market feedback, faster sell-through, and better alignment between acquisition decisions and downstream outcomes. Our direct purchase contracts give our buyers earlier access, better continuity of supply, and more predictable inventory than open-market sourcing.
Our wholesale liquidation operation connecting surplus inventory to professional buyers across local, national, and international markets.
Where We Work
United Liquidations is headquartered in Aurora, IL in Chicagoland and works across the U.S.
We're often engaged when inventory has become a distraction or constraint, and teams need it addressed so they can focus on running the rest of the business.
Connect With Our Team
If you're evaluating options for surplus or returned inventory—or exploring longer-term disposition or partnership opportunities—we're open to the conversation.