Buying is the easy one. The rest — selling, repairing, hauling, baling, and running a pool on your behalf — are what make the buying worth doing.
Pick one in the Select service field, or describe the problem and we will choose.
Straight to the grading floor at 9869 Meeks Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63132.
Or email sales@reboxesmarket.com. We have no phone line — dimensions and counts survive much better in writing.
Fold a box in the browser, read off the cube and pallet fit, and send the spec straight through.
Stock, graded, on a truck this week
Tell us the size, the grade and the volume. We pull from graded inventory, photograph the actual pallet, and quote delivered — not FOB-and-figure-it-out-later.
Turn a disposal cost into a cheque
If boxes leave your building flat, baled, or in a dumpster, you are paying twice. We buy clean used corrugated and gaylords, bring our own trailer, and pay on pickup.
When reuse has genuinely run out
Reuse first, always. But a box reaches the end of its road eventually. We bale OCC to mill spec, keep contamination out, and hand you the paperwork your sustainability report needs.
A tired box, made presentable again
Our bench repairs what most yards throw away: flap replacement, panel patching, re-scoring, label removal and over-printing. A reconditioned gaylord costs a fraction of a new one.
Boxes are mostly air — we price accordingly
Hauling empty boxes badly is how reuse gets expensive. We knock down, band, nest and stack to fill a trailer properly, and we run our own equipment out of St. Louis.
We run the loop so you do not have to
A single contract that covers collection, grading, reconditioning, storage, re-issue and reporting. Your boxes stay yours; we just keep them circulating.
If baling will pay you more than resale, we say so and lose the margin. If a new box is genuinely the right answer, we quote the new box. The programme only works long-term if the advice is honest short-term.
Used box pricing confuses people because the obvious lever — how many you want — is among the weakest of the six. Spread is the gap between best and worst case on our own quote data.
| Factor | Spread | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Destination lane | 2.8× | Within-Midwest versus a long nationwide haul |
| Size-run consistency | 2.1× | A single matched size versus genuinely mixed sizes |
| Grade | 1.9× | Grade C versus grade A on the same size |
| Order volume | 1.3× | One pallet versus a full truckload, same lane and grade |
| Timing flexibility | 1.15× | Take-it-when-it-lands versus a fixed delivery date |
| Season | 1.1× | March versus October on the same lane |
If you buy on a fixed monthly schedule you are riding across this blind. It is a pattern rather than a law — but there is a calendar, and most buyers do not know it exists.
| Period | Inbound supply | Outbound demand | Practical effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| January – February | Very high | Low | Best availability and price of the year |
| March – April | High | Moderate | Good availability; grade A plentiful |
| May – June | Moderate | Moderate | Balanced; agriculture starts pulling gaylords |
| July – August | Low | High | Tightening; lead times extend |
| September – October | Low | Very high | Tightest of the year |
| November – December | Rising | Falling | Availability recovers, grade quality dips |
Thresholds move with labour cost and OCC price. Below two tons a month a baler will never pay back, and we will say so rather than place one.
| Monthly OCC volume | Recommended | Capital | Why | Serviced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 2 tons / month | Gaylord collection points | None | A baler will never pay back at this volume | We collect on a milk run |
| 2 – 8 tons / month | Vertical baler | Low | Small footprint, manual tie, low capital | Us, quarterly |
| 8 – 25 tons / month | Horizontal baler, manual tie | Medium | Throughput without a dedicated operator | Us, monthly |
| 25 – 60 tons / month | Horizontal auto-tie | High | Continuous feed, consistent bale weight | Us, monthly |
| 60+ tons / month | Auto-tie plus compactor swap | High | Mixed stream handling alongside OCC | Us plus your hauler |
| Seasonal spike only | Drop trailer | None | No capital at all — a box on wheels | Us, on schedule |
Measured from a confirmed order, not from the first email. Artwork approval and procurement onboarding sit outside these figures and are usually the real critical path.
| Item | Lead time | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Graded used shippers, stock size | Same week | Often 48 hours on Midwest lanes |
| Graded gaylords, stock size | Same week | Knocked down and banded |
| Reconditioned gaylords | 7 – 10 days | Bench time plus re-grading |
| Lids, liners and accessories | Same week | Ships on the same pallet |
| Recovered pallets, repaired | 3 – 7 days | Depends on repair queue |
| New stock-size boxes | 2 – 5 days | 60+ sizes held in St. Louis |
| New custom die | 10 – 15 working days | Includes die making and first article |
| Printed new board, 1 – 4 colour | 10 – 15 working days | Plate making included |
| Honeycomb panel, stock | 5 days | Pressed from recovered board |
| Die-cut dunnage to profile | 7 – 10 days | Tooling for non-standard profiles adds time |
| Printed retail display | 10 – 12 days | Artwork approval is usually the critical path |
| Baler placement | 2 – 4 weeks | Site survey, delivery and commissioning |
Purchase price is the least interesting number in container economics. Damage caused by container failure is almost universally coded as handling damage, which hides the largest controllable line on the list.
| Cost line | Share of total | Commonly counted? |
|---|---|---|
| Purchase or rental | 34% | Always |
| Inbound freight | 9% | Usually |
| Storage and yard space | 11% | Rarely |
| Sorting and inspection labour | 14% | Rarely |
| Repair | 8% | Sometimes |
| Disposal of unusable units | 6% | Rarely |
| Product damage from container failure | 18% | Almost never |
Declared before the quote these are free to plan around. Discovered on delivery day they are the single most common reason a cheap quote becomes an expensive invoice.
| Item | Specification | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Dock height | 48 – 52" typical | Below 44" a standard trailer needs a leveller or a ramp |
| Dock leveller capacity | 20,000 – 30,000 lb | Loaded gaylords on a pallet truck approach the limit |
| Door width | 8 – 9 ft | Double-stacked knocked-down bundles are wide |
| Apron depth | 100 – 130 ft | A 53-foot trailer needs room to square up |
| Liftgate requirement | If no dock | Add $75 – $150; declare it before the quote, not after |
| Receiving window | 3-day window ideal | Lets us consolidate; worth more than a volume discount |
| Forklift availability | 3,000 lb minimum | A loaded gaylord plus pallet exceeds many electric walkies |
Fill this in and it lands with a grader on the floor at St. Louis, not in a general inbox. One business day, always.