Our Story

In 2022 alone, more than 3.5 billion units of overstock from the U.S. became landfill. It's one thing to see this as a number, and another to see what just a fraction of this waste looks like in person.

Last year, our founder visited a global fast fashion brand's warehouse in Southern California. This company had amassed over 1 million units of overstock that were all headed to be discarded, despite the vast majority of the items being new. As these items fell out of season, they became unsellable on the brand's primary website. This scenario is far from unique - it is unfortunately the standard in fashion today.

Lacking effective redistribution channels, fashion brands had no choice but to hoard these items in their warehouses, incurring steep storage costs, until they were forced to liquidate them at substantial losses or, worse, send them to landfills. Many of our team members come from e-comm and fashion backgrounds and had also encountered similar struggles with overstock. This shared challenge inspired us to establish Bazar - a marketplace tailored for modern brands to sell customer returns and overstock, breathing new life into high-quality products.