Get a Quote — Usually Within the Hour
No forms that go nowhere, no waiting a week for an email. Photos in, number out. Here's exactly how, and what to photograph so the first number is the right one.
The three-photo rule
For each distinct item, three shots get you an accurate number on the first pass:
- 1The nameplate or label — close, straight-on, readable when zoomed. This tells us exactly what it is.
- 2The whole unit — one step back, door open if it's gear. This shows condition.
- 3The quantity — the shelf, the pallet, the room. Quantity changes the offer — always show it.
What happens after you send
A real person — not an auto-responder — looks at your photos and replies with a number, usually within the hour during the day. If you like it, we schedule the pickup or send you a prepaid shipping label. Payment is check or cash at pickup, or the day your shipment arrives and checks out. The quoted number is the paid number, as long as the photos were accurate.
Details that speed up your number
Photos do most of the work, but four short details usually turn a range into a firm figure on the first reply instead of the second. None of them require you to know anything about the equipment.
- City and state. Determines whether this is a crew pickup, a route stop, or freight — which affects the number.
- Rough count. "About forty breakers" or "two pallets" is plenty. Exact inventories are not necessary.
- Where it sits. Ground floor with dock access, a basement vault, a third-floor electrical room, an outdoor pad. This is the single biggest factor on large items.
- Your timeline. If a container arrives Friday or an outage window closes Monday, say so up front and we will work to it.
If you are not sure what you have
Send the photos anyway. Identifying equipment is our job, not yours, and we do not charge for it or require you to sell afterward. Plenty of the quotes we send start with a seller saying they have "some old electrical stuff in the back" — and a fair share of those turn out to include the highest-value category in the business, obsolete breakers.
The one thing worth doing before you send: photograph before anything is removed, cut, or pried apart. Value in this business is destroyed during removal far more often than it is lost in negotiation.