Selling retired IT in the Netherlands.

Amsterdam is a hardware market whether it means to be or not

AMS-IX made the Randstad one of the densest concentrations of network and compute infrastructure in Europe, and hardware that dense retires on a schedule. Add the enterprise estates around Eindhoven and Rotterdam and there's a steady flow of good equipment coming out of service every quarter.

What there isn't, in proportion, is enough demand locally to absorb it at a fair price — which is why so much of it gets cleared cheaply to whoever turns up with a van. Our interest is in the equipment that's still genuinely worth something, and we'll pay accordingly rather than by the pallet.

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. The freight economics reward density: a pallet of drives or well-specified servers travels well, a rack of empty chassis doesn't.

You don't ship it yourself

The Netherlands to Manchester is a short, well-served freight lane. You don't package it up and post it — once we've seen your list we arrange collection with you, and for most lots that means an insured pallet pickup from your door with us as the importer at the UK end. Larger consignments we plan together.

You invoice us, we pay you in euro. For a Dutch VAT-registered business it's an export of goods to a UK customer — your finance team treats it exactly as they would any other equipment sale across the Channel. Freight is factored into the offer, so the figure you see is the figure you net, and the customs and UK import side is ours.

Drives and data

Leave them in — they're usually the most valuable part of the lot. Everything data-bearing is wiped to NIST SP 800-88 Purge and certified by serial number, included in the purchase. If your policy requires drives to be destroyed before they leave Dutch soil, say so and we'll price the lot without them.