The bench-and-counter marine crowd — the shop that sells Yamaha outboards and Furuno electronics to walk-in boaters, services what it sells, and turns pallets out the back door. Lothound ranks marine surplus against trailing 60-day comparable sales and shows the landed margin before you bid. These three worked lots are the kind that come up on a Tuesday and clear by Friday.
Each lot below is the kind of public-surplus pull an outfitter benches in a normal week. The comparable band is trailing 60-day sales by category, refurb is what your tech time actually runs, freight and buyer’s premium are what the invoice shows. Sample margin is what’s left on the table before shop overhead.
One-owner PD lot from a county marine patrol turn-in. Compression check on file. Cowling scuffs, no impact damage. Lower-unit oil already pulled & inspected.
In-shop service. Book at $620 labor for carb service, water-pump impeller, and a fresh sacrificial anode. Then list on the shop’s own channel.
$4,990 landed · $6,100 expected retail → $760 sample margin (post-refurb, pre-shop overhead).
Pallet-lot pull from a NOAA vessel refit. Two TZTL12F, one TZTL15F, one RD-30 display head. Burn-in hours logged; one unit needs a board-level recap.
Drop-ship with your own bench. NIST-trace radar recal on the recap unit. The other three go out as-tested with a 30-day bench warranty.
$2,215 landed · $2,600 expected retail → $320 sample margin (post-refurb, pre-shop overhead).
Decommissioning pull: one ACR EPIRB (battery due), one 6-person life raft (repack interval), one ICOM M605 VHF. All serialized, all chain-of-custody on file.
Sell into a charter fleet. Hazmat-aware refurb ($340 covers the EPIRB battery swap and the raft repack — the VHF passes its self-check as-is).
$3,400 landed · $3,500 expected retail → $490 sample margin (post-refurb, pre-shop overhead).
Marine pulls are not one vertical — outboards, electronics, hull hardware, and charter fixtures each move on different math. Lothound ranks each category on the signals that actually drive margin for a single-shop outfitter.
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The Tracker plan opens two verticals — pair marine with electronics or with lab. Full buyer opens all five. Pre-fill picks marine so you land on the right tier without filling the form.
Pre-fill on /pricing: ?pick=marine — pick your niche.