AssetOrb

AssetOrb GmbH is a Berlin auction house (Wiebestraße 36-37, 10553) that sells machinery, plant equipment and whole company inventories for industry, banks, insolvency administrators, foundations and public bodies; it has long run the regular Stiftung Warentest and Berliner Wasserbetriebe sales. It was acquired by the AURENA Group in autumn 2025, and the brand has now been absorbed: assetorb.com no longer holds its own sales and sends bidders to aurena.de, where its German auctions run alongside AURENA's much larger Austrian calendar. Old AssetOrb accounts stay reachable for past knockdowns and invoices until 31 December 2026.

What you can buy

• Production and workshop machinery: metalworking and manufacturing equipment from site closures, woodworking machines, welding gear, compressors, control cabinets, storage racking and complete workshop fit-outs.
• Vehicles, construction and lifting gear: cars and vans from stock clearances, Bulmor side-loading forklifts, IMER scissor lifts, excavator attachments, construction and agricultural machines, a one-euro-start tower crane in Delligsen, and batches such as twelve right-hand-drive Fisker Ocean EVs.
• Insolvency and closure stock: entire retail branches go under the hammer, for example HELLWEG DIY stores and the Endress Motorgeräte outlets in Stuttgart, Esslingen and Schwäbisch Hall.
• Office, IT and electronics: office and workshop furniture, camera and lighting kit from a Hamburg sale, branded electronics from Apple, Samsung and Lenovo, EATON inverters and PV accessories, and medical equipment such as a mobile digital X-ray system offered in Berlin.
• Surplus stock and trade goods: shipping lots of Harden hand tools, branded clothing and footwear, kitchen and household goods, e-bikes from GasGas, Husqvarna and MV Agusta, garden and outdoor stock.

How the bidding works

Registration on aurena.de takes an email address and a mobile number, private customers sign up on the same footing as companies, and you confirm an activation link sent by email. Everything sells by timed online auction: there is no buy-now and no direct sale. Bid steps are fixed by price band, from one euro at the bottom to 100 euro between 1,000 and 9,999 euro, and a bid in the closing minute extends that lot by 60 seconds. Bids are entered net. Payment is by bank transfer or by Visa or Mastercard up to 5,000 euro, and the invoice must be credited before anything is released. Industrial lots are collected in person at the seller's premises on set pickup days — Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Henningsdorf and Delligsen among them, though most of the calendar sits in Austria — while smaller consumer lots ship free to any EU country.

What to check before you bid

The auction fee is 18 percent of the hammer price, rising to 22 percent on margin-scheme lots, and VAT is charged on hammer price and fee together, so the gross runs well above the number you bid; check the total the system shows before confirming. Goods sell as they stand: nothing is cleaned or tested before the sale, business buyers waive complaints and warranty claims outright, and a public auction carries no right of withdrawal under section 312g BGB, so the viewing day is your only chance to judge running hours, wear and whether a machine can be dismantled at all. Dismantling, loading and haulage are the buyer's problem, which matters when the lot is a crane rather than a pallet. A pickup slot outside the published window costs 300 euro net in advance and is never guaranteed, and goods left behind attract dismantling and storage charges. The site, the lot descriptions and the terms are German throughout, and the contract runs under AURENA GmbH's Austrian terms with Leoben as the venue.