Selling retired IT in Germany.

Frankfurt retires more hardware than anywhere in Europe

DE-CIX made Frankfurt the largest data centre market on the continent, and the Rhein-Main corridor has the estate to prove it. Add the enterprise and Mittelstand IT around Munich, Stuttgart and the Ruhr, and Germany produces more retired enterprise hardware than any other market we look at.

Much of it gets cleared quickly and cheaply when it retires, simply because the nearest buyer with a real resale book is elsewhere. When a pallet is full of servers that still have a market, that's money left on the table — and exactly the equipment we're set up to value properly.

What we buy

Servers from Gen9 upward, server RAM, and enterprise SSDs and drives in bulk. We buy the hardware, not the racks, cabinets or networking. Value density matters over this distance: well-specified servers and populated drive lots justify the freight easily, empty chassis don't.

You don't ship it yourself

You don't package it up and post it to England. Once we've seen your list we arrange collection with you — for most lots an insured pallet pickup from your door, with us as the importer at the UK end. Larger consignments we plan together around your site.

You invoice us; we pay in euro. For a German VAT-registered business it's an export to the UK, and your Buchhaltung has done exactly this for every other kind of equipment. Freight is factored into the offer, so you see the net figure before you decide, and the customs and UK import side is ours.

Drives and data

Leave them fitted — they're usually where the value is. All data-bearing media is sanitised to NIST SP 800-88 Purge with a certificate listing each device by serial number, included in the purchase price. Where policy requires media to be destroyed before it leaves the site, tell us and we'll price the lot without the drives instead.

German procurement tends to ask for this in writing up front. Ask — we'd rather answer it before you send the list than after.