The desk
A buying desk for South-Central Texas surplus cable.
A small buying desk that purchases surplus electrical wire and cable across San Antonio and South-Central Texas, and does nothing else.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
MarketSan Antonio only
BuyerDirect, no brokers
ResponseOne business day
FeeNone to submit
Get a buy quote
Send the reel list. A buyer reads it.
Six details are enough to start. Tags and photos can follow by text or email once a buyer has looked at the basics.
- A buyer reviews the lot: construction, footage and condition, not only metal weight
- Copper and aluminium, 600 V building wire through 345 kV cable
- Full reels, partial reels, cut lengths, pallets and truckloads
- No fee, no obligation, and no automatic pickup
Reel list · About
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
We are buyers, not brokers and not a store. The material we purchase goes back into industrial use where it is sound, and into recovery where it is not. What we do not do is list it for sale, quote it per foot, or pretend a scrap price is a material price.
The desk covers one market deliberately. San Antonio and the counties around it have a particular mix of military, medical, aerospace and automotive supply work, and knowing that mix is more useful to a seller than a national call centre reading a script.
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Who reviews a lot
The person who reads your reel list is the person who prices it. There is no queue of estimators and no automated valuation behind the form. That is why the form asks about tags and footage instead of asking you to create an account.
It also means the answers you get are specific. If a lot is mostly 12 AWG offcuts, we say the freight probably eats the value. If it is four reels of tagged 500 kcmil, the conversation is short and the number is real.
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What we buy, in one paragraph
Building wire from 14 AWG to 1000 kcmil. Service entrance and feeder. Armoured, metal-clad and tray cable. Underground distribution and USE-2. Control, instrumentation and VFD cable. Welding lead and portable cord. Bare copper and grounding conductor. Fire-rated and life-safety cable. Generator and emergency feeder. Medium voltage from 2 kV to 35 kV, and transmission conductor and cable above that, including ACSR, AAAC, substation bus, PILC and HPFF.
- New surplus, still banded on the reel
- Opened reels with most of the footage intact
- Removed cable, still on the reel or coiled
- Obsolete and cancelled-project stock
- Clean scrap and mixed loads
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What we do not do
We do not sell cable, so there is no catalog, no price list and no order desk. We do not publish per-foot rates, because the rate depends on what the reel actually holds. We do not promise a pickup before the lot has been described, and we do not move material that has not been de-energised and released by your crew.
We also do not invent credentials. There is no wall of certifications on this site because the work does not need them: you are selling material, and the questions that matter are what it is, how much, and how it leaves.
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How the two sides protect each other
Every lot is documented before it moves: reel count, construction, footage basis, condition and agreed terms. Weight tickets come from a certified scale. A bill of sale transfers title cleanly, which matters when the cable came off a bonded job or a base contract.
If the material on the truck is not what was described, we stop and talk before anything is unloaded. That happens rarely, and it happens less when the photographs are honest.
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Are you affiliated with a scrap yard or a wire distributor?
No. The desk buys for its own account. Some recovered material is sold on to industrial users after processing, but that is not this website and not this conversation. Here, we are only ever the buyer.
Do you buy outside San Antonio?
The working area is San Antonio and the counties around it: Bexar, Guadalupe, Comal, Kendall, Medina, Wilson, Atascosa, plus Webb and Val Verde for larger lots. Outside that, freight usually decides it.
Can you work with a purchasing department and a PO?
Yes. Surplus sales from facilities usually need a purchase order, an approved vendor form or a disposal approval. Send what your process requires and the paperwork is handled alongside the lot.
What is the fastest way to get a number?
Call or text the desk with three things: what the cable is, roughly how much, and where it sits. Photographs of the tags shorten it further. Most lots get an answer the same or next business day.
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No fee · no obligation
You have the cable. We have a scale and a check.
Send the reel list, the tags or a photograph of the pallet. A buyer comes back with what the lot is worth and how pickup would work, before anything is moved.
954-740-1983 Call or text
- Reel tags, or the print on the jacket
- Reel count and footage, even roughly
- Where it sits and what can reach it
- Whether the cable is still energised