Cherry-picking gets the best items sold and leaves the rest. A whole-crib purchase gets the room empty.
Why cherry-picking disappoints
Selling the good items individually works, for the good items. What remains is a room full of material that has already been picked over, which is worth less per item than it was before, and still occupies the same space.
It also takes time. Twelve valves sold separately is twelve conversations, twelve collections and twelve invoices, which is why most plant cleanouts stall after the first three.
How a whole-crib offer is built
We look at the whole inventory, price the attractive items properly, price the mid-range items on likely resale, and price the tail at realistic values. The result is one number for the lot, including the items nobody can identify.
That structure is why a whole-crib offer is usually lower on the best items and higher on the rest. The total is normally better than a partial sale, and it is always faster.
What counts as a mixed lot
Mixed means mixed: different types, sizes, materials, brands and conditions, including partial assemblies, valves needing repair, actuated and bare stem, and items with no identification at all.
We do not require sorting, cleaning, photographing every item or producing a data sheet for each valve. A rough list and a set of photographs is the normal standard.
The awkward items
Every crib has them: the valve with no nameplate, the actuator with no valve, the three boxes of parts that might be one valve. These are the items that stop a cleanout, because they have no obvious route.
In a whole-crib purchase they have a route. They are part of the lot, priced at what they are worth, and they leave with everything else.
What we need from you
Access, a rough inventory and a date. We handle the identification, the lifting, the loading and the paperwork. If the material is spread across several buildings or sites, that is normal.
The only thing we ask is that the lot is described honestly. A crib that is 60 per cent obsolete stock and 40 per cent usable valves is a perfectly good purchase; it is just a different number from one that is the other way round.
Questions sellers ask
Will you buy a lot with unidentifiable items?
Yes. They are priced at realistic values and included in the lot.
Do you require the valves to be cleaned?
No. Decontamination for transport safety is required; cosmetic cleaning is not.
Can we exclude a few items?
Yes, within reason. Tell us what to leave and we will price around it.