Timed Online Equipment Auctions
Bid on construction machines, attachments and trucks in our timed online auctions — register early, watch the lots close, and buy at your number.
Equipment Available To Buy On Online Auctions
Alongside our regular inventory we run timed online auctions — a straightforward way to buy well, provided you have done the homework on the lot.
Timed auctions suit buyers who know what they are looking at. There is no auctioneer's rhythm to get swept up in and no room full of people bidding against you on adrenaline. You set your maximum, the clock does the rest, and you either get the machine at your number or you do not.
The discipline that matters happens before the auction: inspect the lot, ask for the hour readings, and decide what it is genuinely worth to you. Then bid that and nothing more.
Four Steps From Registering To Collecting
Register early
Approval is not always instant. Get registered well before the closing date rather than in the last ten minutes.
Inspect the lot properly
Come to the Norwalk yard, or ask us for photographs, hour readings and a video walkaround. Never bid on a machine nobody has examined.
Set your maximum and bid it
Decide what the machine is worth to you before the clock starts mattering, then let the system bid on your behalf up to that figure.
Pay, then collect or ship
Once payment clears, collect from the yard or let us quote freight to your location anywhere in the country.
Four Rules That Save Buyers Money
Do The Work Before The Clock
Every minute spent inspecting before bidding opens is worth ten spent watching the countdown. Auctions are won on homework.
Budget The Landed Cost
Hammer price is not the cost. Add fees, freight, and whatever the machine needs before it earns. Set your maximum against that total.
Beware The Closing Minutes
Extended bidding exists to stop snipes, not to stop you overpaying. If bidding passes your number, let it go. There will be another machine.
Ask Us Anything First
We would far rather answer six questions before you bid than deal with a disappointed buyer afterwards. Call the yard about any lot.
Auction FAQs
Lots open for bidding for a set period and close at a scheduled time rather than under a live auctioneer. You place your maximum bid and the system bids on your behalf up to that amount. When the clock runs out on a lot, the highest bid wins it.
Yes. Register ahead of the closing date rather than in the final minutes — approval is not always instant, and you do not want to be sorting it out while a lot is closing.
We encourage it. Come and look at anything located at our Norwalk yard, or ask us for additional photographs, hour readings and a video walkaround if you cannot get here in person.
You will be invoiced for it. Once payment clears you arrange collection, or we will quote you freight to your yard anywhere in the country.
Some lots carry a reserve and some do not. Where a reserve applies it is disclosed on the lot rather than hidden from bidders.
Often that is the better route, particularly if you want a firm sale date. Talk to us about which approach suits your machine — sometimes it is consignment, sometimes it is the auction.
Selling? An Auction Gives You A Firm Date.
Consignment tends to get the best price on the right machine. An auction gets you a guaranteed sale date. We will tell you honestly which suits your unit.