No fees, no broker
A buying desk, not a dealer
We buy transformers for our own account, in one state, and we do not sell them afterwards.
What we buy
What we buy here
Electrical Transformer Buyers Ohio is a buying desk, not a dealer. That distinction is worth explaining, because the transformer trade is full of people who describe themselves as buyers and turn out to be brokers looking for one.
A dealer buys equipment, marks it up and sells it to somebody else. A broker introduces two parties and takes a commission. A buying desk buys for its own account, which means the number you are given is a number somebody is prepared to stand behind with their own money. That is the model here.
Who we buy from
Six kinds of seller, one desk
- Recyclers
- Electrical contractors
- Equipment dealers
- End users
- Demo contractors
- Distributors
Fast offers
A nameplate photo is usually enough to price a unit the same day.
Dedicated logistics
We arrange the crane, the permits and the flatbed, not you.
No broker fees
You are dealing with the buyer, so nothing is shaved off the offer.
How it works
Six steps from your yard to the money
- 01
Take pictures
The nameplate, the cabinet interior and the tank in daylight. Three photographs are usually enough to place a unit in the right class and the right price band.
- 02
Send them to us
The form on this page, a text or an email all reach the same desk. Include the city, the access and any deadline the site is working to.
- 03
Review the offer
A buyer reads the photographs, asks one or two questions and sends a written offer with the assumptions stated, so nothing changes on the day.
- 04
We schedule freight
Crane, flatbed and permits are booked around your access. You get a date and a window, and we carry the cost of getting it right.
- 05
Testing on arrival
Winding resistance, megger and turns ratio, plus oil analysis where the unit is liquid filled. The results decide the final number, and you see them.
- 06
Get paid
Payment is released on the agreed terms once the unit is received and tested, by check or ACH. No retention, no sixty-day terms.
What we handle for you
The parts sellers dread, done for you
Rigging
Crane and forklift arranged around your access, not the other way round.
Oil containment
Bunds, absorbent and disposal handled before the unit moves.
Bill of sale
A clean title document for your records, signed on collection.
PCB paperwork
Pre-1979 units get the testing and the manifest they need.
About
Why Ohio only
Because a transformer is a logistics problem as much as an electrical one. Knowing which utility serves a site, which road will take a lowboy, whether a bridge on the obvious route is rated for the load and which crane firm can actually get to a given yard is local knowledge. A desk that covers twelve states has that knowledge in twelve places at once, thinly. A desk that covers one state has it in one place, properly.
Ohio is also big enough to matter. Eighty-eight counties, a steel industry, an auto industry, a chemical corridor along the river, a farm economy in the northwest and a data-centre build-out in the middle. There is no shortage of transformers, and there is no shortage of reasons they become surplus.
The units we handle
Distribution padmounts from 15 kVA up, substation units into the tens of MVA, dry-types in mechanical rooms, pole units on farm services and the specialty equipment behind a furnace, a rectifier or a traction system. The common case is a 500 to 2,500 kVA padmount or substation unit coming out of a plant that has changed hands.
A seller with a deadline needs a buyer with a crane, and that combination is rarer than it should be. You will not be handed to a call centre. The person who answers the phone is the person who decides whether we buy.
How we handle oil and contamination
What we will not do
Questions
Get started
Get an offer in minutes
Five fields and a phone number is all we need to start. We reply the same business day, and a firm number follows the nameplate photo.
(614) 715-3047or send the form and we will call you.
Questions
What sellers ask before they call
Equipment types
Are you a broker or a buyer?
A buyer reads the tag, checks whatever oil history exists, and says what the unit is worth as it stands rather than what it might be worth rebuilt. There is no middle layer taking a spread: the desk that quotes is the desk that pays and the desk that sends the truck. The industry runs on relationships, but the first one starts with a nameplate photograph.
Service area
Do you publish prices?
If a unit is scrap, we will tell you it is scrap instead of dressing it up as something better. Funds can clear before the crane hooks on if that is the arrangement you want, and we will put it in writing. A site that has been photographed properly can be quoted without a visit, and the visit is only a confirmation.
Payment
Where are you based?
Most units leave within a week of the number being agreed, and a unit that has to clear a site by Friday can usually be gone by Friday. We do not buy in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana or West Virginia, and we say so rather than waste a seller's week. A site visit answers in twenty minutes what a week of messages cannot.
Logistics
How long have you been buying?
Our interest is in the core, the copper and the paperwork that proves the unit is yours to move, not in a commission. Send the tag, the cabinet, the bushings and the pad, and the answer usually arrives before the end of the working day. The work is unglamorous and the equipment is heavy, which is why so few people do it properly.