Stop dumping aged inventory at wholesale. Auction unredeemed pledges online at full retail value — on your own branded site, with no commissions and no per-lot fees.
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From counter case to branded online auction in a single afternoon.
A customer defaults on a $600 loan. The pledge sits in your case for six weeks. It doesn't move. So you call the scrap guy, the jeweler down the street, or the tool buyer who comes through on Thursdays — and you take 40–60 cents on the retail dollar. Every pawnbroker we talk to has a version of this story. Nobody likes it. Everybody keeps doing it.
Selling Lane lets you run a weekly or monthly online auction of your aged inventory at full retail prices. $995/month or $9,995/year, flat. No commissions on your recoveries. No per-lot fees. One ring of ten jewelry pieces in a good month can pay the subscription three times over.
Ten mixed pledges. Total retail value: $14,000. Here's what pawnbrokers typically recover each way.
Recovery multiples vary by category. Jewelry, designer handbags, firearms, and quality tools consistently outperform wholesale. We publish real auctioneer data in the Auction School.
eBay takes 13%. StockX takes 9%. HiBid takes a cut of every premium. On a $500 Cartier bracelet that's $65 gone before you pay the processor. Over a year, marketplace fees eat more than our entire annual subscription.
Pawn inventory is wildly varied — one ring, one drill, one PS5, one coin. Generic auction software assumes you're listing 200 of the same thing. Selling Lane handles single-lot bulk entries, per-item condition reports, and mixed-category sales out of the box.
Firearms, precious metals, and defaulted pledges all come with paperwork. Selling Lane tracks lot provenance, keeps auction records exportable, and lets you flag restricted-buyer items so only verified accounts can bid.
Flat fee, built for mixed single-lot inventory, with verification and reporting pawnbrokers actually need.
A three-location pawn operation in the Southeast runs a 5-day online auction every Monday. 40–60 lots, mixed categories. Here's their weekly rhythm.
Print the default report from your POS. Pull each item from the case or back room. Snap six photos per piece on a phone or a lightbox rig — jewelry from multiple angles, tools with serial number visible, electronics screen-on.
Jewelry template pre-fills karat, weight, stone, hallmark fields. Electronics template pre-fills model, serial, working condition, accessories included. Tools template pre-fills brand, power source, age. You type a description, set reserve, done.
Your branded auction site goes live. Bidders register once, bid on any future auction. Proxy bidding auto-steps increments. Anti-sniping extends any lot that gets a bid in the last 90 seconds. The emails, the SMS alerts, the outbid notices — all automated.
Invoices fire automatically at close. Buyers pay by card, ACH, Venmo, or PayPal. Winning bidders get a pickup window or shipping label. You get a revenue report that feeds straight back into your POS for reconciliation.
Pawn auctions run best as timed online events, not live simulcasts. Selling Lane ships with a Simulcastless™ live-bidding mode — the energy of a live auction without having to broadcast video of your retail floor.
If you're selling to wholesalers, running a "buy it now" Facebook page, or watching inventory age in your case — this is the exit ramp.
| Feature | Why it matters for pawn shops |
|---|---|
| Timed online auctions | Best format for mixed single-lot pledge inventory — 5–7 days to find the right buyer. |
| Unlimited photos | Shoot jewelry, tools, and electronics in the detail they deserve — higher photo quality lifts ASP. |
| Category condition templates | Pre-fill karat, brand, serial, working condition fields by category — fast catalog. |
| Reserve pricing | Protect your loan basis on every lot. Nothing sells below your number. |
| Buy It Now | Turn one-off novelty items into instant sales without waiting for competitive bidding. |
| Deal desk | Unsold lots route to second-high bidder with a time-limited counter. Recovers 10–20% more revenue. |
| Bidder verification | Required for firearms and high-value lots. Stop non-paying bidders before they bid. |
| Branded auction website | Your logo, your domain. Buyers come back to your site, not a marketplace. |
| Buyer CRM | The jewelry collector, the tool buyer, the sneaker flipper — tagged and segmented for targeted email. |
| Automated invoicing | Invoices fire at close, buyers pay by card/ACH/Venmo/PayPal. No manual ledger work. |
| Flat-fee pricing | $995/month or $9,995/year. Zero commissions. Ten jewelry lots pay for the subscription. |
Run one auction a month or one a week — same price.
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Bid simple. Sell smart. — Selling Lane