Sporting Good Stores Liquidation & Special Event Sales

Need to Close Out Your Sporting Goods Store?

There are all kinds of sporting goods stores from full line to specialty stores such as hunting and fishing, golf, ski, bicycle, hockey, baseball, physical fitness, etc. There are team sports stores that cater to schools, teams and leagues. We've done them all and we've done them well. Targeted marketing and our Customer Participation Programs (Games) keep customers returning and shopping, helping you get the best recovery possible for your inventory. We also help you sell fixtures and equipment.

Our sales plan will be tailored to your store. We consider all information given us and based on our experience with similar situations, recommend the sale plan best suited for the store that will get the highest possible return.

We recently liquidated a rock climbing store. Sound tough? How many people walking or driving past the store climb sheer rock-faced mountains? My guess is, even though the store was located near the mountains, not many.

Based on our experience we recommended the sale be held in early spring at the beginning of the climbing season. We start our sales with a direct mail piece we call a Preshowing Letter. Even though it doesn’t quote a single price or discount it out-pulls media advertising and costs less! This store had a current 7,200 name mailing and email customer list. This was a small store with a starting cost inventory of $105,000. The first day of the Preshowing sales ran over $31,000 at an average discount of less than 20%! The owner immediately purchased another $10,000 in high demand inventory, so the total inventory cost ran $115,000, and sales exceeded $160,000! We did this with only $812 spent in media advertising. Direct mail, email and our games carried the advertising load.

The store had been on the market for sometime and lucky for the owner a buyer wasn't found. Our sale far exceeded his asking price. The primary reasons the sale was so successful:

1. The store was fully stocked to go into its biggest volume season.
2. The sale was held early in the busy season.
3. The store carried top of the line merchandise.
4. The owner gave us full cooperation.

There is no cost or obligation to have our Representative appraise your store for liquidation value and propose and explain the sale plan best suited to your store. You’'ll have the answers and know the cost involved before making the decision.

When you go with Wingate you control the store and all receipts! We provide a Consultant who will be an expert promoter and retail liquidator. He will work with you in your store six days a week throughout the sale. He will be experienced with your type of store and merchandise. He’ll guide you through the sale to a successful conclusion. If an unexpected problem arises the Consultant is there and on top of it with an immediate solution.

This is a Partial List of Stores We've Helped in the Last Few Years

Store Name	Store Location
Post Ski & Sport	Valley Stream, NY
Allen's of Hastings	Hastings, NE
Nevada Bob's Discount Golf	Chicago Heights, IL
Galen's of Ephrata	Ephrata, PA
Bikes Plus	St. Helens, OR
Play Like a Girl	Newtown Square, PA
Leisure Time Sports	Trinidad, CO
Nevada Bob's Discount Golf	Mesa, AZ
Nevada Bob's Discount Golf	Tucson, AZ
K.H.'s Sports Shop & Apparel	Crete, NE
Janesville Sports Shop	Janesville, WI
Harry B's Sports	Batesville, MS
Ski & Sport	Grand Haven, MI
Bair's	Homewood, AL
Back Country Escape	Longmont, CO

Store Name	Store Location
Gus' Int'l Bicycle Shop	North Hampton, NH
Byman's Bikes	Longview, WA
Aspen Ski & Patio	Barrington, IL
Jagger's Camp & Trail	Bedford Hills, NY
Play It Again Sports	Fremont, CA
Supreme Golf	Paramus, NJ
Pro Golf	Appleton, WI
Pro Golf	Raleigh, NC
The Complete Angler	Englewood, CO
The Waite Corp.	Concord, NH
Aries Sports	Newbury, MA
Rocky Mountain Snowboards	Littleton, CO
Kobilka's Sporting Goods	Bemidji, MN
Bevans' Sports	Denver, CO
Sunflower Sports	El Dorado, KS