Paid on pickup
Guides, written for sellers
A working guide for Ohio sellers: what decides the number and how the unit leaves.
What we buy
What we buy here
The guides are written for the person holding the tag rather than the engineer specifying a replacement.
Each one is short, specific and free of the language that usually surrounds this subject.
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.
Guides
The detail that decides the number
A purchase that finishes in a week is normal, and one that finishes in a day is a favour returned.
A decommissioning is orderly, which makes it the easiest kind of large project to buy from.
A seller who knows what the unit is saves everybody an hour, and the hour is often the difference.
A short drive within one county costs less than a long drive across three, and the number shows it.
A buyer's first question is about the rating and the second is about the access, in that order.
A unit substation is convenient in service and awkward to move, because the sections are bolted together.
The paperwork at the end is short, and it is the part that keeps everybody out of trouble.
A hot mechanical room quietly derates everything in it, and nobody notices until a unit fails early.
Paint is a cosmetic question, and seam rust is a structural one, and the two are often confused.
A seller should ask what happens to the unit after it leaves, because the answer says what kind of buyer they are dealing with.
A buyer who explains the reasoning gets a second call, and the second call is where the good units are.
A decommissioning is orderly, which makes it the easiest kind of large project to buy from.
A decommissioning is orderly, which makes it the easiest kind of large project to buy from.
A buyer who turns up with a torch and a tape measure is not there to argue about the paint.
A unit that has been disconnected for a year is not the same proposition as one that came out last week.
A quick decision is a kindness when the unit is standing in the way of a project.
A partial assembly is bought on the assumption that something is missing, because it usually is.
A substation-class unit sits between what a plant can maintain and what a utility would own, which is why it changes hands.
A buyer who has seen the site will always beat a buyer who has only seen a form, which is why the visit is free.
The difference between a good and a bad purchase is usually information rather than luck.
The best outcome is a unit that leaves the site and turns up somewhere useful, and that happens more often than people expect.
Everything in this section
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
Is every page here written for Ohio?
There is no fee to look, no commission on the number, and no deduction invented after the truck is loaded. We know the Ohio permit routes, the scales and the bridge limits because that is the only ground we work. A unit described honestly sells faster than one described optimistically, because the second one gets renegotiated.
Service area
Can I sell a unit that is not listed here?
The offer arrives with the reasoning attached, so it can go to a board or a finance team without translation. A buyer who says yes to everything is not a buyer; the useful answer explains what would have to be true for the number to rise. A unit that came out of a working plant is almost always the better buy, and sellers rarely realise it.
Payment
How do I get a number?
If the building changes hands at the end of the month, say so at the start and the schedule gets built backwards from that date. You will not be handed to a call centre. The person who answers the phone is the person who decides whether we buy. A substation-class unit sits between what a plant can maintain and what a utility would own, which is why it changes hands.
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