Situation ยท Warehouse overstock
We buy warehouse overstock cable.
The stock is not damaged and it is not old. It is the wrong gauge for the work that came in, bought for a customer who changed the spec, and now it occupies two rack bays nobody can use.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
What we buyObsolete and dead stock
Typical lotPallet to full rack
Access neededDock, aisle, forklift
Best starting pointA stock list with footages
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 · Overstock
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
Overstock arrives in three flavours: obsolete SKUs nobody specifies any more, wrong-gauge buys from a job that was re-engineered, and dead inventory that has been counted in every cycle count for years without moving. All three are cable, and all three are still on the rack because writing them off is easier than selling them. Until the floor space starts to matter.
A warehouse lot is read off a stock list, not a photograph. Item, size, footage per reel, reel count and where it sits in the building. From that a buyer can tell which items justify a truck and which are worth taking because they are already on the pallet. Photographs still help, but they answer a different question, which is condition.
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Three kinds of stock that will not move
Obsolete is a product the market has moved off: an insulation a spec no longer allows, an alloy that has been superseded, a cord type replaced by a different jacket compound. Wrong-gauge is a buy that was correct for a design that changed. Dead is the roll that has sat on the same shelf through two re-organisations because nobody wants to be the one who writes it off.
- Obsolete SKU: sound cable, no current specification
- Wrong gauge or wrong conductor count from a redesign
- Short rolls and cut lengths below a usable length
- Reels from a job that was cancelled after delivery
- Stock with a faded or missing label
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Counting a rack before anyone quotes it
Walk the aisle with a clipboard or a phone and record five things per item: description as it appears on the label, size, footage per reel, number of reels and the rack location. Add a note where the label is missing, because that reel will be judged on the jacket print and the conductor end. A stock list with footages is worth more than a hundred photographs taken from the aisle floor.
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Aisles, dock height and the forklift question
Cable warehouses are laid out for picking, not for removing a bay at a time. Aisle width may not take a counterbalance truck with a full pallet, the dock may be high or low, and the heaviest reels may be on the top beam rather than the floor. Tell us which, and whether there is a ramp, a lift gate or a crane. It is the difference between one visit and three.
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The floor space is the real objective
Most sellers are not trying to recover what the stock cost. They are trying to stop paying the square footage, the insurance and the cycle-count labour that a dead bay costs every month. That reframing changes what a good outcome looks like: a smaller number taken cleanly on the whole bay often beats a long tail of single-reel sales that leaves the rack occupied for another year.
- Square footage the bay occupies all year
- Insurance carried on stock that does not move
- Cycle-count hours spent on the same labels
- Racking that cannot be reused while it is full
| Category | What identifies it | What we ask for |
|---|---|---|
| Obsolete insulation or alloy | Label and specification number | Photo of the print |
| Wrong-gauge buy | Size against the original order | Reel count by size |
| Short rolls and cuts | Footage under a full reel | Measured length if known |
| Unlabelled reels | No readable tag | Conductor end photo |
| Mixed pallets | Several items banded together | Item list per pallet |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Do you take the whole rack or only the good items?
Usually the whole lot, with the weaker items priced honestly rather than dropped. If a bay is mostly sound and partly doubtful, the quote says so in those terms in writing. Splitting a bay is possible, but it tends to leave the seller holding the part nobody wants.
The labels are gone. Can you still price it?
Yes, from the jacket print and a clean cut end. Where neither is readable the cable is bought as conductor rather than as a product, which is a materially different thing. A photograph of the end and a note on size is enough for a first read.
How is overstock freight handled?
By the pallet, on a dock, with a forklift at both ends. A full trailer is the cheapest way to move a large bay and a box truck is the only way to move a small one. Give the pallet count and the dock height and the truck can be right the first time.
Can we keep some of the stock back?
Of course. A partial clearance is normal, where the bay is picked over for the items still in use and the rest goes. Mark clearly what stays, because a load pulled from a mixed bay without a list is exactly where disputes start.
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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