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Decommissioning? We buy the valuable part.

We're not a removals contractor — we're the buyer at the end of the job. Your team (or your removals contractor) powers down and de-racks; we buy the servers, memory and drives that are worth reselling, so the residual value offsets the project instead of adding to it.

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Where the value actually is

Finance tends to write a retired estate down to zero, and clearing it then gets treated as a cost line. That is usually wrong by a wide margin. A three-generation-old estate still holds real value — its servers, memory and drives have an active secondary market, and enterprise drives in particular hold value far longer than most refresh cycles assume.

The gap matters most at scale. Across a room's worth of kit, the difference between a skip and a buyback is frequently the difference between a decommission that costs money and one that funds part of the next deployment.

We buy hardware, not removal. Power-down, migration sequencing and the physical de-rack stay with your team or your removals contractor. We don't touch a running workload and we don't clear the room — we step in on the value side, buying the servers, RAM and drives once they're pulled and ready to go.

How it runs

  1. Scope. Send an asset register, a list or a photo set. We come back with an indicative number, usually within one working day.
  2. Agree. We confirm exactly what we're buying, the price, and how it's getting to us — before anything moves.
  3. You clear it. Your team or your removals contractor powers down, de-racks and pulls the servers, RAM and drives. The rack, cabinets, PDUs and cabling stay with them.
  4. We collect. Insured collection of the hardware we're buying, palletised and ready. Free in the UK and Ireland; freight agreed per consignment elsewhere in Europe.
  5. Wipe. Data-bearing media sanitised to NIST SP 800-88 Purge and certified, serial by serial.
  6. Settle. Inspection against the list, then payment by bank transfer.

What we buy from a decommission

Servers, server RAM and enterprise drives (SAS / SATA / NVMe SSDs and HDDs) — the hardware with genuine resale value. We don't buy racks, cabinets, PDUs, rails, cabling or networking, and we don't do the physical strip-out. Pull the servers, memory and drives out for us and we'll buy them; the rest is your removal contractor's job, not ours.

If you're not sure what's worth pulling, send the list before you start — we'll tell you which lines are worth the effort and which aren't, so nobody spends an afternoon de-racking kit that was never going to pay.

Coverage

Free insured collection across the UK and Ireland. In the Netherlands, France and Germany we buy the working hardware as a commercial purchase and agree the freight per consignment — see where we buy for how that works.

Paperwork your auditor will accept

Decommissioning this quarter?

Send the asset list or a photo set. You'll have an indicative number inside a working day.

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