Auctelia

Auctelia is an online auctioneer and broker of used business equipment, based in Nivelles near Brussels, trading since 2009 and owned by the French AgoraStore group since 2023. Sellers are companies and public bodies, never private individuals: bankruptcies run with insolvency specialists such as SoHa.auction, business closures and reorganisations, surplus fleets from Belgian municipalities, rail and transport operators, and unsold trade stock. Roughly 2,700 lots are live at any time, in weekly recurring sales, themed sales for construction, transport, metalworking, horeca and consumer goods, and single-machine lots. Goods stand in Belgium and the Netherlands; the site runs in five languages.

What you can buy

• Trucks and commercial vehicles: DAF CF and MAN TGX tractor units, container and garbage trucks, municipal road sweepers, Mercedes Sprinter and Renault vans, trailers, cars, motorcycles, plus non-runners sold for parts.
• Construction and earthmoving: mini excavators from Caterpillar, Volvo, Kubota and Bobcat, a Komatsu PC450 crawler, Caterpillar 962M wheel loaders, Arcomet self-erecting and tower cranes, Bomag rollers and compactors, site dumpers from Ausa and Yanmar.
• Metalworking and woodworking: lathes, milling machines and sheet-metal shears; machining centres, a Martin T70 sliding-table panel saw, edgebanders, moulders and tenoners, with whole carpentry shops cleared in one sale.
• Handling, agriculture and catering: forklifts, telescopic handlers, pallet trucks and pallet racking; Kubota compact tractors, mowers and snow ploughs; a horeca theme sale with cold rooms, ovens and fryers from closed kitchens.
• Liquidated stock: pallets of LED lighting, fencing, pavers, bricks, parquet, tiles, sanitary ware, office furniture, Kraft&Dele power tools and store returns, some opening at five euros.

How the bidding works

Registration is free and nothing bars a private buyer, though the terms assume trade: professional buyers get no warranty and no right of withdrawal. Sellers must be registered companies in one of 27 EU countries, and they either list goods themselves or hand a whole clearance to Auctelia's team. Lots run as timed auctions, and the platform sets the close fourteen days after the start; only the weekly recurring and themed sales run seven. A bid in the closing minutes extends that lot by five minutes, so the finish drifts past the published time. Before bidding you lodge a deposit sized to your ceiling: about 25 euro to bid up to 500, 200 up to 5,000, 1,000 above 15,000. Some lots carry a reserve; whole sales are advertised without one. Payment goes into Auctelia's third-party account by transfer within three working days of the proforma invoice; the seller is paid only once you have collected. Viewing days at the seller's premises are announced before the sale opens and must be booked two working days ahead; collection falls on fixed pickup days, often within ten days.

What to check before you bid

A 17 percent buyer's fee is added to your bid, then 21 percent Belgian VAT on the total, so a 10,000 euro hammer costs about 14,157 gross. Export outside the EU is VAT-free only if you return the EX-1 customs document within ten working days of delivery, and anyone registered from a non-EU country is invoiced with the VAT regardless. Condition wording is literal: "functional on inventory day" means it ran once in front of a valuer, "not tested" means nobody started it, and lots described as for parts are wrecks. Vehicle entries list exactly which papers exist, and some warn that the seller will not issue a declaration of loss for the missing ones, which stalls re-registration abroad. Descriptions are written in French or Dutch and machine-translated into the rest, so check the photos and ask through the question form. Loading and haulage are yours, and missing the pickup window can cost you the lot.