Liquidation Value

  

The 187 couches at Furniture, Furniture, Furniture! They had to be sold. Liquidated. Moved.

Their retail price-value? Average of $5,000 a couch. Almost a million bucks. Their wholesale cost to the retailer? Half a mil. But when everything goes on sale to be liquidated, the prices drop dramatically.

Their liquidation value is more like 200 grand. Bargain time.

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