Markets
Who Buys This Equipment
Five different kinds of companies will answer the phone when you have switchgear to sell, and they are not interchangeable. Knowing which one you are talking to is most of the negotiation.
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Send the asset list, or just describe what is in the room. We come back the same business day with a written, itemized offer.
Faster: call 954-740-1983
Email an asset list to electricalequipmentbuyers@gmail.com
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- Offer
- Same business day
- Payment
- Before load-out
- Removal
- Our crews, our rigging
- Insurance
- COI on request
- Coverage
- Six Southeast states
- Desk
- 954-740-1983
Section 1
Direct buyers
A direct buyer purchases the equipment for their own account, removes it with their own crews, and resells or reconditions it themselves. That is what we are.
The advantage is that the number you are quoted is the number being paid, with no intermediate margin, and the removal risk belongs to the buyer rather than to you.
Section 2
Brokers and dealers
A broker finds a buyer and takes a percentage; a dealer holds inventory and sells over time. Both are legitimate, and both mean the offer you receive has been reduced by somebody's margin or carrying cost.
Brokers can be genuinely useful on unusual medium-voltage assets where finding the one right buyer is the hard part.
Section 3
Scrap yards
A yard prices metal. Copper, aluminum, steel, sometimes electronics. That is an honest transaction and occasionally the correct one — for burned gear, obsolete aluminum-bus panels, or anything where reuse is genuinely impossible.
It becomes an expensive mistake when the lineup had a resale market. Once a switchgear section is cut, that value is gone permanently.
Section 4
Demolition contractors, and how to use them correctly
Structural demolition contractors are excellent at what they do and generally price electrical equipment as tonnage inside a larger contract. If the electrical scope is inside the demo bid, the recovery value usually disappears into it.
The better structure is to sell the electrical assets separately before the demolition contract begins, then let the demo crew take the building. Many GCs will happily carve it out if you ask before the bid closes.
Questions
Frequently asked
Will you take one item or do you only do whole plants?
Both. One transformer on a pad is a legitimate call. So is a complete plant electrical lot with substations, MCC lineups, hundreds of breakers and miles of tray cable.
What do you do with the equipment?
Reusable gear is tested, refurbished where needed, and resold into the used-equipment market — often to plants waiting many months on new switchgear. What cannot be reused is separated into copper, aluminum, steel and electronics streams.
How do you decide what something is worth?
Ratings and configuration first, then how sellable the specific nameplate is, then condition and documentation, then the real cost of getting it out of your building. The last item is the one sellers consistently underestimate.
Do you charge for removal?
No. On any lot with recoverable value the removal cost is priced into the offer and you receive a net number. If a lot is genuinely worthless — badly burned gear, scrap-only aluminum panels in a bad location — we will tell you that instead of inventing a number.
Do you buy outside the United States?
We buy across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. We are not currently purchasing internationally.
Are you insured?
Yes. General liability and workers' compensation, with certificates naming your entity and your general contractor sent before mobilization if your site requires it.