Sell a lot, whatever produced it
Surplus cable comes from a handful of situations, and each one has its own paperwork problem. Find the one that matches and send the details.
- 11 situations
- Both states
- One buying desk
Pick the situation
The page that matches your circumstance will be shorter to read than this one.
Partial reels and cut lengths
Half a reel is still a reel. What changes is the evidence: a footage mark, a size, an insulation type, and how the remainder has been stored since the job it was bought for finished.
ReadCable from cancelled or deferred projects
A job that stops does not stop neatly. Feeder on the reel, tray cable on the cart, grounding conductor cut and coiled: the material is new, and the only thing wrong with it is that nobody will install it.
ReadPlant liquidation and closure cable
A closure is a sequence, not an event. The storehouse is emptied in the final weeks, by a crew that is being laid off, through a gate that closes on a date somebody else set.
ReadDemolition and strip-out cable
Stripping a mill or a plant is not the same trade as selling surplus. The cable comes out in whatever lengths the saw allows, and the value sits in the metal, the jacket and how clean the separation is.
ReadUtility and co-op surplus conductor
A utility yard accumulates in layers: conductor from a rebuilt line, reels from a cancelled extension, service cable from a subdivision that changed hands. None of it is waste until somebody decides it is.
ReadWarehouse and distributor overstock
Every distributor carries a shelf of cable that will not move. The item is not damaged and not obsolete in any technical sense. It simply has a size, a colour or a length that your customers stopped asking for.
ReadElectrical contractor leftovers
There is a shelf behind every gang box that nobody owns. It holds four partial reels, three coils of cord, a box of cut wire and a reel that came off a job in a different county two winters ago.
ReadTextile plant changeouts and mill cable
A line changeout is minor surgery on a building that was never designed for it. The new drives arrive, the old cabinets come out, and the cable in between is the part nobody scheduled for.
ReadMixed lots and unsorted pallets
A mixed pallet is not a problem to be solved before selling. It is a lot with a different basis, and the review question changes from what each reel is worth to what the group is worth as it stands.
ReadObsolete and discontinued inventory
The word obsolete describes a catalogue position, not a conductor. Cable that a manufacturer stopped listing three years ago is still copper, insulation and a jacket, and somebody may still need that exact construction.
ReadSubstation, switchgear and control house cable
A control house is a small building with a large amount of cable in it. Retiring one produces the cleanest conductor on the site and the longest list of things a buyer will not take.
ReadThree facts decide most of the outcome
What the material actually is, how much of it there is, and how it has been stored. Everything else — the paperwork, the access, the timing — affects the logistics rather than the value.
If you know only two of the three, send those two and say what is unknown. A buyer can work with a gap that is declared. A gap that is discovered later costs everyone a visit.
- Family and construction, not just colour and size.
- Footage from the tag or the counter, and how it was derived.
- Storage: indoors, covered, open yard or trailer.
- Whether the reels are still on their factory pallets.
- Who can release the material and when.
Send the lot
One description covers it. If the lot spans several buildings, say so.
Or email saleselectricalbuyers@gmail.com
- No fee and no obligation to sell.
- Written lot terms before anything moves.
- Pickup scheduled around your access rules.