A manifest is a sales document. The retail reference column exists to make the load look bigger than it is.
Rebuilding it with your own numbers takes twenty minutes and is the difference between bidding and guessing.
Group by category
Cooking, laundry, refrigeration, small goods. Your sell prices differ by group, not by line.
Group by condition code
Ask the supplier what each code means in practice. Codes are not standard across suppliers.
Replace retail with your prices
Use your own closed sales. If you have never sold a category, discount it heavily or skip it.
Estimate the unsellable share
Scrap, missing parts, no-power units. Use your own receiving history.
Total and divide
Expected revenue against total landed cost, then per sellable unit.
Sanity check the tail
If the top ten units carry the load, the load is too risky.
Example
- Trusting the retail column.
- Assuming condition codes mean the same thing at every supplier.
- Skipping the unsellable estimate.
Your business is ready to buy wholesale.
A Pro account gets you access to inventory. It doesn't automatically come with terms or financing.