Rail · 01
Liquidation pallets
Bulk manifests, manifest-only, and salvage loads tracked end-to-end. We score them by historical category passthrough rate, not just ticket price.
Source engine · v0.4 live
Cratefoxsourcing for the resale era.
A curated-niche sourcing bench for independent resellers. Live deal flow from pallets, thrift networks, clearance scanners, and closeouts — scored against real marketplace pricing before you spend a dollar.
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6 marketplaces scored1,400+ thrift-scout cities4 curated verticals
Spread preview
NK-DUNK-L-08.5 · #0000Sneakers & streetwear
Nike Dunk Low · Panda · 8.5
Cost
$42.00
Best net
$60.01
Total net Δ
$212.08
- eBay · soldfloor $117.25−13%$60.01first row
- Grailedfloor $111.25−9%$59.24
- Amazonfloor $108.25−15%$50.01
- Mercarifloor $94.25−10%$42.83
Re-price cadence · 60 min→ pick best · eBay · sold
+180%Grailed YoY (’24)apparel / footwear
+89%Depop YoY (’24)peer-to-peer
$3.50Floor margin benchmarkper $5 wholesale unit
6Marketplaces, one querylive pricing
Why now
Amazon-arbitrage is over.
The era of “find a cheap thing on AliExpress, slap it on Amazon, pocket the spread” compressed to a margin so thin that a single return wipes the month. Cratefox flips the playbook: specialise, source aggressively inside a vertical, and only list what pencils out.
We pull deal flow from five sourcing rails — pallets, thrift-scout intel, clearance scanners, local closeouts, and marketplace re-finds — and gate every candidate through a spread engine that compares your cost basis to live Buy-Box and marketplace pricing. The result: a shorter inbox and a longer sell-through rate.
Sourcing rails
Five feeds. One queue. Zero noise.
Cratefox doesn’t pretend to be a sourcing platform in a market starved of them — we curate every rail by vertical, region, and your configured margin floor. You only see what clears.
Rail · 02
Thrift-store finder network
Foot-traffic intel from operators in 1,400+ cities. A new pickup hits the dashboard within minutes of the rack being fronted.
Rail · 03
Clearance-aisle scanners
Automated SKU lookups across big-box clearance. Filtered for the verticals you actually list in — no false-positive noise.
Rail · 04
Local closeout alerts
Estate, store-closure, and small-batch liquidation listings. Forwarded with manifest, condition notes, and a buy-or-pass recommendation.
Rail · 05
Marketplace re-finds
Cross-listed Gripsou, Grailed, Mercari, and Depop pulls that didn't sell at the seller’s price — recosted against your cost basis.
Spread engine
A $5 unit that still pencils at $3.50.
Every candidate deal is queried across Amazon, eBay, Grailed, Mercari, Depop, and Poshmark. The engine returns the dominant floor price, total fee drag, and your net margin — adjusted for the vertical’s typical dispute/return rate. Margin guardrails reject the deal before you ever see it.
Floor margin guardrail
Live re-price · 60 min
MarketplaceFloor $Fee %Pricing surface
Amazon
$21.5015%Buy BoxeBay
$22.0013%Sold listings · 30dGrailed
$19.509%Last 5 soldMercari
$17.0010%Active compsDepop
$18.258%Active compsPoshmark
$17.5020%Active compsCost basis
$5.00
Net margin floor
$8.40
Best surface
eBay
Verticals
Four niches, hand-picked.
Cratefox doesn’t index the whole marketplace — it refuses parts of it. Every vertical has a margin profile, a grading kit, and a dispute profile tuned before you list a single unit. That’s the curation layer public marketplaces no longer reward.
Tier A
38–62% netSneakers & streetwear
Hyper-seasonal; condition grading is the moat. Cratefox issues the grading template and photo checklist before the SKU reaches the bench.
Grading
A/B/C
Auth
≥ $300
Rotation
60 min
Tier A
41–58% netVintage collectibles
Authentication surface baked in for higher-ticket SKUs — PSA, BGS, and clothing-era tags get a pre-list verifier, not a buyer-side dispute.
Grading
A/B/C
Auth
≥ $300
Rotation
60 min
Tier B
22–34% netRefurbished electronics
Tested-condition grading (A/B/C) and serial verification before listing. Return rate tuned by pre-ship hardware diagnostic.
Grading
A/B/C
Auth
≥ $300
Rotation
60 min
Tier C
28–40% netMid-tier luxury
Authentication step for pieces above your configured threshold. Skip it for sub-$300 SKUs where the workflow cost outweighs the dispute.
Grading
A/B/C
Auth
≥ $300
Rotation
60 min
Workflow
From the rack to the buyer, in one bench.
- 01
Source
A candidate deal lands in your inbox. Cost basis, manifest, and the spread engine’s passthrough estimate are attached before you open it.
- 02
Score
Spread engine pulls live pricing across six marketplaces, applies your margin floor, and bins the deal — buy, watch, or pass.
- 03
Grade & list
Condition template prefills from category. Photos, copy, and platform-specific titles are queued — one approval, six listings.
- 04
Sell & rotate
Cross-list rotation re-prices hourly against the lowest accepted offer. Slow movers get relisted to the next marketplace automatically.
Pricing
Priced for solo operators, not enterprise ZOOs.
Flat monthly. No per-listing fees, no take-rate on your spread. The product makes money when you do.
Solo Operator
For one operator and one sourcing region.
$49/ month
- Up to 250 scored deals / month
- Six-marketplace spread engine
- Cross-listing to three marketplaces
- Margin guardrail + grading templates
Most picked
Bench Team
For two-to-four operators sharing a sourcing bench.
$149/ month
- Unlimited scored deals
- All six marketplaces, full rotation
- Authentication queue for >$300 SKUs
- Per-operator roles + bulk reconcile
- API access for custom sourcing feeds
Resale Collective
For collectives and regional buying groups.
Talk to us
- Shared sourcing rails + co-buy rules
- Custom verticals and condition kits
- Settlement + payouts to multiple accounts
- On-shore authentication partner integration
Bench space is limited
Source smarter. Cross-list faster. Keep the spread.
Slots open in cohorts so we can tune the spread engine to your vertical mix. Drop your email — we’ll send you the cohort schedule and one operator playbook while you wait.
Join the waitlistOr reach us at cratefox-5@polsia.app
Operator playbook · excerpt
“A $5 closeout only flatters your spread tax until it doesn’t. The day the Buy Box drops a buck is the day this unit becomes a loss — and Cratefox is the tool that pulls it before that happens.”
— from the Cratefox operator onboarding doc