Five steps, one number, no surprises.

1. You send a list

Any format. A spreadsheet, an asset register export, a rack elevation, a photograph of a pallet with a note. We'd rather have a rough list today than a perfect one next month — we can always firm up the detail once we know roughly what we're looking at.

What genuinely helps: model or generation, quantity, CPU and memory configuration if you have it, and whether the drives are still in. What doesn't matter: whether it's tidy, whether it's itemised, whether you know what any of it is worth.

2. We come back with a number

Usually inside one working day. It's an indicative offer — an honest estimate based on what you've told us, not a lowball we intend to renegotiate on the day. If your list is detailed, the indicative number and the final number are usually the same.

We'll also tell you if something in your lot is worth more than you think, because we'd rather buy the whole thing than have you split it. Enterprise storage is the usual surprise; people write it off at zero and it's frequently the most valuable line on the list.

3. We collect

In the UK and Ireland collection is free and insured for anything with resale value, at a time that suits you — including out of hours if the room is live during the day. Elsewhere in Europe we agree the logistics per consignment and show you the cost inside the offer, so the number you see is the number you net.

Everything is manifested and labelled as it's packed, before it leaves your site. You keep a copy. That manifest is what everything else is reconciled against.

4. We inspect and wipe

Kit is checked against the manifest on arrival. Anything that arrives unlisted, or fails to arrive, gets flagged to you rather than quietly absorbed.

Drives are wiped to the NIST SP 800-88 Purge standard and you get a certificate listing each device by serial number. It's part of the purchase, not a line item we bill you for — we can't resell a drive until it's clean, so it's our problem, not yours.

5. You get paid

Bank transfer to the selling entity's business account, once inspection is done. Not when we've sold it on, not in instalments, not ninety days later. If we've bought it, carrying it is our risk.

If inspection turns up a genuine discrepancy — a different spec than described, undisclosed damage, drives pulled after the list was sent — we tell you and agree a revised figure before anything irreversible happens. You can also just have it back, at our cost.

How long does the whole thing take?

A straightforward UK lot is generally done inside a fortnight from first email to cleared funds. Larger clearances are scheduled around your site, not ours.