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Find and contact liquidation auction sellers
Find and contact liquidation auction sellers. Find local liquidation and auction sellers, and reach out on your behalf.
What you can get
Reaches your accounts Creates or changes things in accounts you connect, with your approval.
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It does
- Finds sellers and sends outreach messages on your behalf
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It stops and asks
- Before outreach is sent: review the list of sellers it plans to contact.
- After responses come back: check each seller's legitimacy before visiting.
- Before visiting in person: confirm hours, address, and what's actually in stock.
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You approve
- Authorization to contact third parties (sellers) in your name
Derived from this task's own brief and steps, not from the source.
- Define the searchStops for your approval
Area, type of goods, and a comparison seller if you have one.
- Find sellers
Smaller, local operators rather than national platforms.
- Send outreachStops for your approval
Initial contact message to each seller found.
- Review responses
Decide who's worth an in-person visit.
Editorial, not from the source
Works when
- You're looking for smaller, local liquidation or auction sources rather than big national platforms.
- You're comfortable with outreach being sent in your name before you've seen the responses.
- You plan to follow up in person anyway, so this is a first pass, not the final step.
Does not work when
- You need to vet sellers' legitimacy before any contact is made.
- You want to review and personalize the outreach message yourself.
- The area has few or no online-findable local sellers, which limits what this can turn up.
Find and contact liquidation auction sellers: review template
| Seller | Outreach sent | Response |
|---|---|---|
| [Seller name] | [Message sent / not sent] | [Responded / silent] |
| [Seller name] | [Message sent / not sent] | [Responded / silent] |
| [Follow-up] | [Visit planned] | [In person check] |
The source case
Replying to a conversation about sourcing, @ShamsETubriz says they had Instinct find smaller, local liquidation and auction sellers (comparing them to B-Stock), that it reached out to those sellers on their behalf, and that they'd already gotten a few responses, with plans to visit some in person the next day. No seller names, number contacted, or content of the responses are given, and nothing here has been run by this directory.
A public report by someone outside this library. Not independently reproduced here.
From the source
Source excerpt
I had Instinct AI find me some smaller local liquidation and auction places, kind of like B-Stock. ... It actually reached out to them on my behalf, and I already got a few responses.
Quoted from the original posts. Not written by this guide, and not a result produced here.
Suggested prompt
Bring Location/area, Type of goods or seller you're looking for. Acts Finds sellers and sends outreach messages on your behalf. Source community report, checked 2026-10-09.
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Other ways to ask
Editorial rewrites of the brief above, for a different emphasis. Copy them separately.
What you need
Editorial, not from the source
You supply
- Location/area
- Type of goods or seller you're looking for
Connected
- Whatever channel it uses to reach out (email, contact form, etc.)
How to try it
Editorial, not from the source
- Give the area and the kind of seller you're after, with an example if you have one, like B-Stock.
- Let it find smaller or local operators, not just the big national platforms.
- Have it send the initial outreach message on your behalf.
- Review the responses and decide who to visit or follow up with in person.
Give it a comparison, not just a category
The source works because the request wasn't just 'find liquidation sellers' — it was anchored to a known comparison, B-Stock, which tells the search what scale and type of operator to look for before anything else happens. A bare category request risks surfacing the obvious national platforms you could have found yourself with a quick search; naming a comparable company steers it toward the smaller, local operators that are actually harder to find on your own without that kind of guidance. If you don't have a direct comparison in mind, describe the scale and locality explicitly: a regional pallet liquidator, a local estate-auction house, a small-scale overstock reseller, rather than leaving 'smaller' and 'local' open to interpretation.
Treat outreach as a first pass you'll still have to work
The value described here is specifically that it 'reached out to them' on the poster's behalf — not just producing a list, but doing the unglamorous first contact that most people put off indefinitely rather than ever get around to themselves. That's useful, but it's still a first pass: the report ends with the poster planning to check sellers out in person, which is where the real evaluation of inventory actually happens, not before. Review the outreach message before it goes out in bulk, since a generic or overstated request sent to multiple sellers at once is much harder to walk back afterward than a single email you wrote and sent yourself.
Expect uneven coverage of truly local operators
Smaller liquidation and auction sellers are, by nature, less likely to have a polished web presence than national platforms, which means a search for them will have gaps that no automated process can fully close on its own. Treat the list it returns as a useful starting set rather than a complete map of what's actually available nearby, and keep your own channels — word of mouth, local classifieds, driving past a place you've noticed before — in the mix alongside it. The responses that do come back are the part worth trusting most, since a seller actually replying is a real signal that a bare listing on its own simply isn't.
Open Instinct to try it. That is the product's own site; this guide is not part of it.
Limits and confirmation points
- This is one attributed post; it doesn't say how many sellers were found or contacted, or what the responses said.
- Visiting in person, as the author plans to, is still needed to actually evaluate inventory — this finds and starts contact, it doesn't complete a purchase.
- Smaller, local operators may not have an online presence it can find reliably, which could undercount what's actually available nearby.
Editorial, not from the source
- Before outreach is sent: review the list of sellers it plans to contact.
- After responses come back: check each seller's legitimacy before visiting.
- Before visiting in person: confirm hours, address, and what's actually in stock.
Editorial, not from the source
- The outreach message misrepresents what you want
- Review and approve the outreach wording before it's sent in bulk to multiple sellers.
- Sellers found are big national platforms, not local ones
- Give a specific local-scale example (like the B-Stock comparison in the source) so it searches for comparable, smaller operators.
- No responses come back
- Treat silence as a normal outcome for cold outreach to small local sellers, not a failure of the search itself.
Common questions
How specific should I be about the type of seller?
As specific as possible — the source anchors the request to a known comparison (B-Stock), which helps it search for comparably scaled, local operators instead of big national platforms.
Does it actually contact the sellers, or just list them?
Both, according to the source: it found sellers and reached out to them on the poster's behalf, generating a few responses.
Do I still need to visit in person?
Yes. The source describes this as finding and starting contact; evaluating actual inventory still needs an in-person visit.
What if no sellers respond?
Treat that as a normal outcome for cold outreach to small local operators, not evidence the search itself failed.
Should I review the outreach message before it's sent?
Yes, especially since it may go to multiple sellers at once — a message that overstates your request is harder to correct after the fact.
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