Situation ยท Cancelled project
We buy cable from cancelled projects.
A job stops between rough-in and trim-out. The reels bought against it are still banded, still tagged, still on the pallet the supplier dropped. Nothing is wrong with the cable; the money ran out.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
State of the cableUnopened, banded, tagged
What carries valueThe tag and the paperwork
Typical lotPallet to full truck
Where it sitsSite trailer or laydown
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 · Cancelled Project
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
The call comes from a project manager or a controller rather than an electrician. The job is suspended or closed out, the site trailer has to come off the property, and there is a pallet of unopened reels the distributor will not take back because the return window closed or the order was non-stock. Someone has to make it disappear before the final walk.
This is the cleanest category of cable there is. The jacket has never been pulled through a conduit, the footage is the footage printed at the mill and the banding is usually intact. What makes it valuable is the paper behind it: purchase orders, submittals and delivery tickets that tie a reel number to a specification section.
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The tag is the asset and the copper is the cargo
An unopened reel with a mill tag is bought almost as a catalogue item. Size, strand, insulation, voltage class and footage are all known without measuring anything, and that certainty is what separates it from a partial on the same rack. A buyer can commit to a number from a photograph of the flange. Nothing has to be cut open to be identified and nothing has to be unrolled on a wet floor to be measured.
Lose the tag and the same reel becomes an argument. The cable may be perfect, but nobody can prove what is under the jacket without cutting an end and reading the print, and the print fades. Keep the tag wired on. If it comes loose in handling, tape it to the flange rather than putting it in a pocket.
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Paperwork that turns a closeout into a clean sale
Closeout is where paperwork either helps you or haunts you. The documents that matter are the ones showing the cable was bought for this job and never installed. A folder beats a shoebox, and a folder that travels with the pallet beats a folder in an office two suburbs away. Where the folder is thin, say so at the start rather than the end, because a missing delivery ticket changes what can be claimed later.
- Purchase order, and any change order that cut the scope
- Approved submittal with the manufacturer and catalog number
- Delivery tickets listing reel numbers and footages
- Return authorisation, whether approved or refused
- A signed statement that the material was never installed
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When the return window has already closed
Suppliers price returns on restocking terms, and a special order often carries none at all. That is the point where a pallet becomes dead capital on a project already being written off. Selling it to a buyer is not the same transaction as returning it and does not need the same paperwork, but it does need someone with authority to sign the material off the site. Agree who that is before the truck arrives, not at the gate.
- Who has authority to release the material
- Whether the reels are owned or held on consignment
- Where the pallet can sit until a truck comes
- Which gate a trailer can use
04
Loading out of a shut-down site
A suspended site is not a working site. Power may be off to the laydown area, the gate may be locked and the only forklift may have gone to another job. Send the address, the gate hours, the ground surface and whether a trailer can turn around. Where there is no forklift the pallet has to be broken down or a lift gate booked, and both change how the load is planned.
| Material | Condition it arrives in | What proves the footage |
|---|---|---|
| THHN and XHHW building wire | Banded, never pulled | Mill tag and delivery ticket |
| Feeder, copper or aluminum | On the original steel reel | Tag and purchase order |
| MC and tray cable | Carton or reel, sealed | Carton label and submittal |
| Fire-rated and CI cable | Reel, print intact | Tag and approved submittal |
| Control and instrument cable | Reel or box, sealed | Tag, box label, submittal |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
The reels are in the project manager's name, not ours.
That is normal. What a buyer needs is proof the material is yours to sell: a bill of sale from the project, a release from the owner, or a signed statement that the reels were abandoned to you at closeout. The name on the purchase order is history, not title.
Two reels were opened before the stop-work order.
Opened reels still sell, at a different value. Note which ones were broken out and roughly how much was used. If a length was pulled and wound back, say that too, because a reel that has been out and rewound is judged on the jacket as well as the footage.
Can you collect before the trailer leaves the site?
That is the right order of events. Once the reels move to a storage yard the freight usually costs more and the paperwork gets harder to find. Send the tags and the site address while the material is still on the property.
Does it matter that the submittal was never approved?
It changes the value, because an unapproved submittal means the cable may never have been accepted for the job. The cable is the same cable. Say up front that it was rejected or still pending, and the number will reflect it honestly instead of being reopened later.
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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.
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- 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