Will overseas buyers bid?
Often, yes. Used machine tools have an international market, and dealers who export bid in most UK machinery sales. They arrange their own shipping and export paperwork. From your point of view nothing changes: they pay us like any other buyer, and their rigger collects during the same window. The wider the audience, the better the price.
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Machinery and engineering auctions
CNC machines, lathes, mills, presses and workshop equipment sold to a trade market that knows what they are worth.
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