Case study · EcoReadyBath
763 orders from surplus in 91 days
Stock that was waiting to be written off now sells every day: 8 orders a day on average and 3,331 units sold. EcoReadyBath, based in Stargard, Poland, does it with DeadStock, without a new hire and without changing the factory's systems.
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Results
91 days in numbers
From 1 July to 29 September 2026, from EcoReadyBath's Allegro sales reports.
- of book value recovered from the surplus sold
- 106%
- orders in 91 days
- 763
- units of surplus sold
- 3,331
- orders a day on average over 91 days
- 8
- sales in September compared with July
- ×3.1
- of orders without a return
- 96.7%
EcoReadyBath data from Allegro sales reports, 1 Jul – 29 Sep 2026. Book value from EcoReadyBath's records.
The story
A bathroom factory that sells its own surplus
Where it started
Materials left over from projects
EcoReadyBath builds ready-made modular bathrooms in Stargard, Poland, for hotels, student housing and residential developments across Europe. Its 11,000 m² hall produces up to 9,000 bathroom pods a year, and every one of them is made from precisely counted materials: sealants, grouts, fittings, drains.
When a project ends, some of those materials are left over. New, in their original packaging, fully usable, just not needed for the next order. They took up shelf space and tied up cash, and nobody at the factory had time to list them for sale one item at a time.
These materials sat here because nobody had time to turn them into listings. Now I check the orders in the morning and the app does the rest.
The decision
No new hire, no changes to the systems
The condition was simple: selling the surplus must not take people off the production line or require any change to the factory's systems. DeadStock connected to the warehouse, recognised the products by their EAN codes, added photos, descriptions and parameters, and the finished listings went live on Allegro.
One thing stayed on the factory's side: a person who picks and packs the orders.
The first weeks
A catalogue that grows by itself
On 10 August EcoReadyBath had 150 listings on Allegro. By 29 September it had 353, 274 of them active. Over the same period the number of buyers following its listings rose from 88 to 323.
Sales grew with the catalogue: September's were more than three times July's.
I scan a product with my phone and a moment later there's a finished listing with photos. I print the label straight from the order, so no more copying addresses.
What sells
The best sellers are things nobody would list by hand
Sealants, grouts and fittings are exactly the kind of stock that isn't worth listing by hand, one item at a time. With DeadStock they became best sellers: the grey sanitary sealant alone sold 385 units.
763 orders came in over 91 days, and 96.7% of them are never returned.
Five best sellers, 1 Jul – 29 Sep 2026
- 01MAPEI Mapesil AC 113, grey sanitary sealant 310 ml385 units
- 02MAPEI Mapesil AC 132, beige sanitary sealant 310 ml187 units
- 03Grohe 27057000, wall union 1/2", chrome28 units
- 04KALDEWEI FlowLine Zero 900, brushed drain3 units
- 05MAPEI Ultracolor Plus 113, flexible grout grey 5 kg119 units
Today
Surplus is now a steady sales channel
After 91 days EcoReadyBath has 763 orders and 3,331 units of surplus sold behind it. Stock that was waiting to be written off now goes out in 8 orders a day on average. Orders come in every day, and the factory gets on with what it does best: building bathrooms.
What convinced me most was that we didn't have to hire anyone. One person packs the parcels, and the surplus turns into money instead of sitting on the shelves.