It is the most common question we get, and the answer disappoints people, so it is worth explaining properly rather than deflecting.
What people are really asking for
When a buyer asks for a manifest, what they want is certainty. They want to know that the skid contains enough recoverable value to clear the price before they commit.
That is entirely reasonable. The problem is that on mixed customer-return stock, the document that would provide that certainty does not exist anywhere in the chain.
Where the list would have to come from
Returns leave a retailer in bulk. They are consolidated across stores, moved to a processing facility, sorted at a coarse level by category or by weight, and released by the trailer. At no point does anyone scan each item, because on goods averaging a few dollars the labour would cost more than the merchandise.
By the time a trailer reaches a dock like ours, what is documented is a class and a weight, not a bill of materials. We break it down onto skids and describe what we can honestly see.
A seller who hands you a tidy spreadsheet for a load like that either has a different kind of stock, or somebody produced the document without opening the boxes. Both are worth knowing about before you pay.
What to price against instead
The load class
Pallet or truckload, floor-loaded or on skids, single-category or general merchandise.
The condition
Overstock, shelf-pull, customer return or mixed. This drives your unsellable share more than anything else.
The stated count
An approximate range. Divide the price by it, then apply a realistic unsellable share for the class.
Those three facts, which every listing carries, let you build a defensible estimate. A manifest would let you build a precise one, and on this kind of stock precision is not available at any price.
Why we say it out loud
We could be vague about this. Plenty of sites are, and they collect the orders from buyers who assume a list is coming and then argue about it after delivery.
We would rather lose the sale. Every listing, the terms and the FAQ all say the same thing: these loads are unmanifested, no itemised manifest is provided, and none is available on request.
If that is a dealbreaker for how you buy, it is genuinely better for both of us that you know now.
See how a load is described
Class, condition and an approximate count, on every listing.