BuyWander Inc., the young, Spokane-based online auction retailer that specializes in returned goods, plans to move to a space in Spokane Valley that's more than six times the size of its current quarters. 

Jordan Allen, the company’s founder, says BuyWander is moving today, Feb. 13, into a 40,000-square-foot building at 12606 E. Sprague, which previously housed Northwest Motorsports. The new site is significantly larger than its current 6,000 square foot building at 2626 E. Trent, in East Spokane. 

“We’ve grown so much. It’s our fourth move in under a year,” Allen says. 

BuyWander’s business model is centered on processing and reselling returned retail items that often end up sitting in warehouses, being destroyed, or sent to landfills. Customers can bid on items on the company’s website, and they can pick up their items at the company’s warehouse in person upon a successful final bid. BuyWander doesn't ship any of its products. 

Allen says the company has grown to 7,000 registered users, most of whom are local to the Inland Northwest. Many customers, however, travel from places like Yakima, Washington, and Missoula, Montana, to the company’s warehouse to pack up their auctioned items. Allen says. 

The online auction company sells 1,500 items a day and gets about 200 cars for curbside pick-up each day. In the new location, he hopes to grow that figure to 1,000 cars a day.

Allen says the current East Spokane location receives five semi-truck deliveries of returned retail items a week, and that inventory typically is sold within 10 days. In the new location, he aims for BuyWander to receive 20 trucks of returned retail items a week. 

He declined to disclose projected revenue. 

Allen founded BuyWander, which does business as Wander, in 2023. The executive team at Wander includes Brock Kowalchuk, former CEO of now-defunct e-commerce company Kaspien Holdings Inc., and the company’s other co-founder Matt McGee. Wander has 25 employees. 

Allen says the company plans to grow to a new market this spring.