Britannia AuctionsSurplus equipment sales in Leeds
Leeds surplus tends to be mixed. The industrial belt through Hunslet, Stourton and Cross Green has metal processing next to food production next to trade counters and distribution sheds, and a single business often has a bit of everything. A packaging line, a couple of forklifts, some racking from a mezzanine that came down, and a print finishing machine nobody has switched on since the contract ended.
We sell that mix in one online auction. Cataloguing happens where the items stand, viewing is by appointment or on one day, and collection is booked in slots around your deliveries. Most of the southern estates are minutes from the M621, so the trade in Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Halifax is well placed to come and look before bidding closes.
Send us a list. We will say what is worth including and what should go straight to the skip.
Printing and packaging kit has a shelf life
Print surplus is worth moving quickly. A guillotine, a folder or a laminator holds value while the model is still supported and drops when it is not. The same applies to labelling and packaging machines in the food sector. If a machine came off a line six months ago, it is worth listing now rather than next year.
This kind of kit is written for other printers and packers, and Leeds has plenty of them within a short drive. Bidding is online and open nationally, with export interest possible on a well known model.
We describe each machine by make, model, serial and hours or impressions where the counter shows them, and we photograph the control panel and the wear points. A buyer who can see the state of the rollers will bid with confidence. One who cannot will bid low or not at all.
Racking and trucks from the distribution sheds
Distribution surplus is racking, forklifts and the equipment that goes with them: pallet trucks, dock levellers, battery chargers, packing benches. Racking is easiest for a buyer to judge while it is still standing, because they can count bays and see the condition of the uprights. If you are reconfiguring a warehouse, tell us before the takedown and it can be offered by the run, with the dismantling phased around your stock moves.
Forklifts are standard items with a wide field of buyers, and they travel well. A truck with hours on the meter and a service record gives a bidder more to work from than one without. We photograph the mast, tyres, forks and chains, and we note any faults the buyer would find on the first day.
Thorpe Park, Leeds Valley Park and the older units around Hunslet are checked the same way, for access, turning space, shared yards and the route to the door. Collection slots are booked one buyer at a time and our staff are there to release lots.
What these sales can include
- Machine tools and CNC equipment
- Forklifts and access platforms
- Pallet racking and shelving
- Compressors and air tools
- Welders and fabrication kit
- Vehicles and trailers
- Test and measurement equipment
- Site accommodation and containers
- Packaging and labelling machines
- Obsolete stock and components
- Office furniture and IT
- Catering and canteen equipment
Selling from a live site
Most surplus sales happen inside a business that is still trading. That changes how we work. Cataloguing is done around your shifts. Viewing is by appointment or on a single day, with visitors signed in and escorted. Collection is booked in slots so that nobody is moving a machine through the middle of a production run.
Items that are still bolted down, plumbed in or connected to services are isolated by a competent person before collection, with electrical and gas disconnection done by qualified people. Buyers arrange and pay for the removal of their lots, and they do not disconnect services themselves.
Tell us about anything that affects access: weight limits on floors, door heights, crane availability, restricted hours. It all goes in the catalogue so buyers plan the removal properly.
The surplus equipment sales page covers what counts as surplus, one sale or a standing arrangement, pricing, reserves and the buyer's premium, after the sale.
Questions about selling in Leeds
- We are a trade counter. Can we sell surplus stock alongside the equipment?
Yes. Obsolete stock and components sell in the same auction as the fixtures, and often to the same buyers. We lot it in quantities that make sense for the trade rather than one item at a time, and we describe it honestly, including anything past its sell by date or missing packaging. Stock that is worth very little is better bundled into a job lot than catalogued separately, and we will tell you which is which.
- How soon after the sale closes do we see the money?
Buyers pay us, then collect in the window agreed with you. How long that takes turns on the number of lots, the access and how quickly buyers pay, so the window is set rather than promised as a date. Once it has closed and funds have cleared, the sale is reconciled and you are paid, with a lot by lot statement showing the hammer price and the agreed charges. The auction terms set out what happens if a buyer does not pay or collect.
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Guides
- Preparing machinery and equipment for sale
What to do before viewing day. Keep the machines that can be run safely available to demonstrate, isolate the rest, clean but do not repaint, find the tooling and manuals, and sort out access for removal.
- How used machinery is valued
Buyers pay for what a machine will do for them, less what it costs to get it out and running. This guide explains how make, hours, tooling, demand and removal cost feed a guide price, and why that price is not book value.