Paid on pickup
Selling a Transformer in a Overstock
Units released by this situation bought across Ohio, with the removal and paperwork handled.
What we buy
What we buy here
overstock that is already in progress needs a buyer who can be on site within days rather than weeks. Utilities retire units on a schedule, and the ones coming out of a substation are often better built than anything a plant owns.
| What happens | A utility or a contractor holds more units than the work requires, and the surplus sits on a rack in a warehouse. |
|---|---|
| Deadline | the deadline is usually an inventory review or a fiscal year end |
| Paperwork | an inventory report, an asset tag and a bill of sale |
| Buying note | Overstock is where a buyer finds matching sets, which are worth more than the same units bought one at a time. |
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.
Situation
What overstock means for a transformer
In overstock, the transformer is usually the last thing standing between the site and its next use. A seller should keep the photographs after the sale, because the next buyer will ask for the same ones.
A site visit answers in twenty minutes what a week of messages cannot. A buck-boost unit is almost always misapplied rather than worn out, and the diagram inside the cover explains why.
The paperwork that has to be right
A cyclic load leaves a different signature in the oil than a steady one, and the lab report shows it. A high-impedance unit is specified by an engineer rather than chosen from a table, so the tag is the only reliable record.
A fault history is not automatically bad news, because a repaired fault is often better documented than an unrepaired one. A release that names the serial number is the one an auditor will ask for.
How the pickup runs
A site induction takes an hour and we plan for it, because an uninducted crew sitting at a gate is a wasted day. A rural site is often easier than an urban one, because there is room for a crane and nobody to complain about it.
A gate that is four inches too narrow turns a morning into a week. A lowboy is the right trailer for a heavy unit with a low centre of gravity and a long approach.
What to send us first
A seller who mentions the deadline in the first sentence gets a schedule rather than a queue. Every county in Ohio has a slightly different way of doing things, and a buyer who works statewide learns them all.
A cabinet that has been opened recently has probably been looked at by somebody who knew why. A buyer's first question is about the rating and the second is about the access, in that order.
Common questions
Other situations we handle
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
Do you buy in a overstock situation?
We know the Ohio permit routes, the scales and the bridge limits because that is the only ground we work. With overstock, the first question is not what the unit is worth but who can release it. A tank that has been repainted recently deserves a closer look than one that has not.
Service area
Who signs the paperwork in a overstock?
Send the tag, the cabinet, the bushings and the pad, and the answer usually arrives before the end of the working day. We sign the seller's paperwork when they have it and provide ours when they do not. A relocation leaves behind exactly the units that were built into the building, which is why they become surplus.
Payment
How fast can you move in a overstock?
Answers come back the same day in most cases, and the truck is scheduled the moment the paperwork is signed. When overstock carries an insurance deadline, the salvage decision is usually separate from the repair decision. The best outcome is a unit that leaves the site and turns up somewhere useful, and that happens more often than people expect.