How to liquidate unsold physical inventory without massive losses

What the numbers show

Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count

• This comes up 28.2× more often in r/smallbusiness than across the site as a whole.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   Pulling the inventory home to avoid monthly warehousing fees
2. 2
   Contacting beverage distributors and local hotel chains
3. 3
   Selling inventory to vending machine operators
4. 4
   Renting a booth at local festivals and events to sell stock directly
5. 5
   Drill a hole in the installed countertop to use the faucet instead of selling it
6. 6
   List the item on Facebook Marketplace at a significant discount
7. 7
   Sell the item on eBay
8. 8
   selling everything at a quick clearance price
9. 9
   bundling with or using items for upsells at checkout
10. 10
    selling at cost or below to recover some capital
11. 11
    Trying to sell the items in a bundle
12. 12
    Looking for site recommendations and alternatives to Etsy
13. 13
    Considering cutting losses

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.