Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf. Send us a list, take a number in euro, and we'll sort the freight.
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.
It also has a well-established disposal industry that is very good at charging for the privilege of taking it away. Which is fine for genuinely dead equipment — and quietly expensive when the pallet in question is full of servers that would have sold.
Servers from Gen9 upward, enterprise storage and arrays, enterprise drives in bulk, networking and racks as part of a clearance. Value density matters over this distance: well-specified servers, populated arrays and drives justify the freight easily, empty chassis don't.
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 agreed per consignment and shown in the offer, so you see the net figure before you decide. Import duty and VAT sit with us in Britain and are already inside the number we quote.
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.
Send the list. A number in euro, freight included, inside one working day.
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