The process is deliberately short. You send what you have, we review it, we make one offer for the lot, and we collect. There is no listing period, no auction close date, no commission and no second buyer in the chain.
It is also deliberately forgiving. You do not need a clean inventory, a data sheet per valve or a sorted pallet. Most of the lots we buy start as a stores export, a set of shelf photographs or a phone call from somebody standing in a warehouse.
Step 01
Send what you have
A stores system export filtered to valves is ideal. If there is no export, photographs work: one wide shot per shelf or pallet, one nameplate shot per distinct model, and a note of how many of each. If there is nothing at all, call and describe it.
Include the location and any date that matters. A demobilisation date, a hand-back date or a building release date changes the order in which we work.
Step 02
We review the lot against the market
The review looks at valve type, size, pressure class, body and trim material, operator, completeness, documentation and condition. Those factors decide whether an item is a rebuild candidate, a spare, a parts donor or scrap.
We price the whole lot, including the items that are hard to identify. If something is unclear we ask rather than assuming the best case and reducing the offer later.
Step 03
One offer, explained
You get a number for the lot with the basis explained: what is driving the value and what is being treated as low value or scrap. If the number is not right, tell us why and we will look again at anything we may have misread.
There is no obligation. A declined offer costs you nothing and we will not chase you.
Step 04
Collection and a purchase record
We arrange lifting, loading and transport around your access rules and safety induction. You provide a loading point and a gate contact; we bring the rest.
Payment terms are agreed in writing before collection, and you receive a purchase record listing what was collected — usually what a stores or finance team needs to close the inventory line.
The things we do not do
No cherry-picking, no re-trading
We do not buy the good items and leave the rest. We do not quote a number and then renegotiate on the loading dock. And we do not ask you to clean, sort or catalogue the material before we look at it.
The only thing we ask is an honest description. A crib that is mostly obsolete stock is a perfectly good purchase; it is simply a different number from one that is mostly usable valves.