Selling retired IT in Ireland.

Why there's so much hardware in Ireland

Dublin is one of Europe's largest data centre markets, and has been for well over a decade. That density has two consequences worth knowing if you're the one holding the kit.

The first is that there's a great deal of enterprise hardware in the country relative to its size — not just in the hyperscale halls, but across the financial services, pharma and tech operations that clustered around them. The second is that when it retires, the local secondary market is thinner than the volume warrants, so a lot of genuinely good equipment gets cleared for far less than it's worth simply because the nearest buyer with a real book is elsewhere.

That's the gap we're in. We move it to where it sells.

What we buy here

The same as everywhere: servers from Gen9 up, enterprise storage, drives in bulk, switches and racks as part of a clearance. Whole-room clearances are our favourite job and Ireland produces a lot of them.

How it works from Ireland

• Collection is free and insured, exactly as in the UK, for lots with resale value.
• You're paid in euro by bank transfer, once the kit is inspected against your manifest.
• Your VAT position is ordinary. An Irish VAT-registered business selling goods to a UK company treats it as an export; your finance team will have handled the same thing for other equipment.
• Import admin is ours. Customs and import VAT on our side of the water is our problem, and it's already priced into the number we give you.

Drives and data

Leave them in. Drives are usually the most valuable part of a storage lot and pulling them costs you real money. Everything data-bearing is wiped to NIST SP 800-88 Purge and certified by serial number as part of the purchase. If your policy won't allow drives to leave the site intact, we'll wipe or shred on site instead — just say so when you send the list.