I personally will never buy from My Web Wholesaler (aka mywebwholesaler) ever again. My company paid $1,664.48 for a K-Mart watch pallet.
Here is what I got for my money.
264 pieces (estimate) of costume (junk) jewelry - no value to me as my company doesn't sell jewelry
6 scratched up sunglasses - no value obviously
6 watch bands - don't want them
8 jewelry boxes (retail brand new for only 4.99) - no value to me
46 boxes of blank heart lockets (retail if brand new for only 2.99) - no value to me
93 clocks (alarm clocks to be more precise) - mainly old fashion windup type - I don't sell this junk - no value to me
577 - watches
Now as for these 577 watches, here is what I got. Please keep in mind when I mention the phrase brand new price that I am referring to full retail for a new watch. Not one single watch that I received was new.
Here is a breakdown of the 577 watches (the only reason I bought the pallet)
59 KMART private label Y-Brand watches - can't sell them because KMART and MyWebWholesaler required me to sign a contract with up to a $50,000 fine for selling these. The Y-Brands are Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer, Kathy Ireland, & Route 66. I have to trash them all.
191 watches dead on arrival - vast majority are so cheap that they are not even worth the price of a new battery if that is what the problem is.
18 watches with broken or missing crystals - trash
77 watches with broken bands - again, most of these watches are so cheap that it is not worth the time swapping bands with the bands from the DOA watches.
46 other watches with serious problems - trash
83 working watches that are generic in my opinion - no branding on the watch face, wrist band, or watch backing. All retail if brand new for under $10, many retail for only $3.99 - $6.99 if brand new. Minimal value to me, 50 cents a watch at best.
43 working watches from brands not known by the general public as follows (Acuci 13 watches valued at $5 a watch if brand new, 1 Extreme Limits $9.99 if brand new, 5 Field Rangers, 1 Iron Kid, 1 LTO, 4 Sharp, 1 Starter, 1 Sugar Fly valued at 9.99 if brand new, 14 Ultimates valued at 9.99 if brand new, and 2 Victoria Rhein valued at 9.99 if new). I suspect these watches will fetch about the same as the generics if sold, about 50 cents on average at best.
9 watches from major brands we have all heard of but the watches are so outdated in my opinion that its not sellable.
42 salvageable watches (7 need repair) from the following (4 Acqua, 6 Armitron, 2 Lorus, 24 Timex, and 6 Wrangles).
9 pocket watches with no dates which I might be able to sell for a couple of bucks each.
I did not receive a single Nike, DKNY, Pulsar, Calvin Klein, Techno Marine, Seiko, or Casio.
My Web Wholesaler will not issue me any credit, refund, or take back the merchandise (even though I am willing to pay the return shipping and pay a restocking fee) claiming as-is, no returns. I believe their pallet description, salvage 101 disclosure, sales staff answers, and the same photo were grossly misrepresenting what I bought.
I think you should take MyWebWholesaler's advice from the salvage 101 on their web page, know who you are dealing with. Now I Know, I just wish I knew this sooner.
By the way, I took photos of every single group of items for those of you who don't believe me.
As for My Web Wholesaler, this company had 22 complaints (as of the time I purchased the watches) filed by people in the past year to the BBB. I was unaware at the time but now believe this number understates the problem because the BBB only allows consumers to file a complaint, not businesses. Thus I was not able to file a complaint.
I will probably end up giving all the working merchandise (except the Y-Brands) to a charity that's more than 50 miles from any KMART (another requirement I had to sign) after defacing what works. It is not worth my time of day to sell 42 salvageable watches on EBay.
Stanton
Renton, Washington
U.S.A.
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