Where to Sell Surplus Cable

Surplus cable accumulates for predictable reasons. A job was overbought on purpose to avoid running short. A project was cancelled after the material shipped. A design change left the wrong size on the reel. A standardisation programme moved a shop from copper to aluminum feeder and stranded the old inventory. A supply house carried stock that stopped moving. In each case the material is functionally new and the owner is paying to store it.

This is the material we pay the most for, and it is also the material most often written off internally as worthless because it has been on the books for years. If you have mill-tagged reels sitting in a warehouse or a laydown yard, that is real money on a pallet, not clutter.

We buy surplus in single reels and in bulk. For supply houses and contractors clearing inventory, we will quote an entire lot as one number and take everything in one pickup, including the odd sizes and the partials that are hard to sell individually.

Surplus situations we buy from

• Cancelled projects with cable already delivered to site.
• Job overbuys and the leftover reels at the end of a large pull.
• Warehouse inventory stranded by a standardisation change.
• Electrical supply house stock that has stopped moving.
• Contractor laydown yards being cleared at the end of a job.
• Utility, municipal and institutional surplus programmes.

What happens after you accept

We confirm the pickup window against your schedule, send our own truck and crew, and pay you before anything moves. You do not need to sort by size, weigh anything, wrap the reels or stage them at a dock. If the material is behind a locked gate or up on a job site with limited access, tell us and we will bring the right equipment rather than asking you to move it for us.

Loose coils, damaged reels and mixed pallets are normal and we plan for them. Our crew wraps and loads to keep long lengths continuous, because continuous length is most of what we are paying you for.

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