Selling redundant servers and switches?

[Fluke]

Hi all,

We have a load of old HP and Cisco kit which is redundant but still holds a fair bit of value.

We use recycling firms to dispose of old PCs etc but don't have any experience with trying to sell kit on (in a hands off and pain free way)

 

If any of you have done this before and could recommend and particular vendors/companies that would be very welcome indeed.

 

Oh please don't suggest Ebay!!!

 

TIA!

[PotNoodleTech]

Got the same problem here, school/council rules and regs forbid ebay paypal etc. Got probably thousands of quids worth of stuff we can't easily sell. Recycling companies offer peanuts for them.

[mdrabble]

What about ICT Directs sister company - Bargin Hardware - https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/sell-used-hardware

 

Not sold anything as yet, but they could help?

[PotNoodleTech]

Tried all the usual suspects, including them, it in stock, server source, etc.

 

None interested.

[Norphy]

It might be worth contacting the manufacturer. HP took a load of redundant networking kit of my hands and paid us for the privilege.

[3s-gtech]

Tried all the usual suspects, including them, it in stock, server source, etc.

 

None interested.

Tried listing it on here?

[PotNoodleTech]

Tried listing it on here?

 

No actually!

[ebeecroft]

Same issue here so would be very interested to hear of any success stories as our office is rapidly filling up with old kit.

[Supportafrika]

Hi all,

Have you considered giving/selling to charities. We are a charity collecting used IT/Visual devices and support schools and communities in Africa. We are a charity so don't expect too much money as of market value. We love free stuff as we still have to incur a lot of cost to ship these abroad.

 

http://www.supportafrica.co.uk

[Oaktech]

Techbuyer Europe is who we sell to. Ask for Callum.

[TechMonkey]

My experience has so far been that it is more trouble than it is worth. Once you consider VAT and pickup. I think one sale it ended up costing us money and one we managed to just break even. With the faff it would have been easier to just get a recycling company in.

 

Also, what we think is residual value, what the leasing company may think is residual value and what the achievable residual value is are often wildly different.

[PtrIT]

Hi all,

We have a load of old HP and Cisco kit which is redundant but still holds a fair bit of value.

We use recycling firms to dispose of old PCs etc but don't have any experience with trying to sell kit on (in a hands off and pain free way)

 

If any of you have done this before and could recommend and particular vendors/companies that would be very welcome indeed.

 

Oh please don't suggest Ebay!!!

 

TIA!

Have you tried www.stonegroup.co.uk ? We have used their team to take our redundant IT infrastructure kit, they give you a rebate back or what we did was kept it with them and they boosted the value by 20% to use against more IT kit.

[PotNoodleTech]

Techbuyer Europe have given me a reasonable quote for my equipment so shall be using them! Thanks @Oaktech

[Fluke]

Thanks all,

We use Stone regularly so have fired them an email and also contacted Techbuyer Europe. Fingers crossed!

[Fluke]

We ended up using Stone for this and were quite happy with their service pre and post collection. Their rebate prices were pretty good and was all a smooth simple process.

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