A "going out of business" sale sign indicates they are eager to move their inventory, potentially even at cost, to avoid additional storage, transportation, dis

A "going out of business" sale sign indicates they are eager to move their inventory, potentially even at cost, to avoid additional storage, transportation, disposal fees, etc. If it's truly going out of business, that's leverage for the buyer, precisely because while you can simply choose to shop elsewhere, the number of available buyers is finite and approaching zero. So if the "price isn't good" you can negotiate, whereas at a healthy business there ought to be no negotiating.