HMA Auktioner

HMA Auktioner sells machinery, vehicles and business assets from Lene Haus Vej 2 in Ikast, central Jutland, and on site at companies across Denmark. Vagn Tornvig founded it in 1984; Jan Christensen took over in 2002 and is an auctioneer appointed by the Danish Ministry of Justice for the Herning court district. Lots come from bankruptcy estates, closing companies, municipal equipment yards, bailiff and probate courts, tax authorities, insolvency trustees and farmers selling up.

What you can buy

• Farm machinery: New Holland TL90 and 4WD Valtra M150 tractors, Massey Ferguson combine harvesters with Powerflow headers, Kuhn ploughs and hay turners, Hardi mounted sprayers, grain rollers, feeding machines, pig transporters and vintage Massey Ferguson 35, 135 and 165 tractors.
• Construction and earthmoving: Volvo EW160 excavators, mini-diggers and mini-loaders including factory-new Laston machines, New Holland LM 430 telehandlers, road graders, crane-fed wood chippers, forestry and tipping trailers, loading gear and hand tools.
• Workshop and production plant: timber and metal workshop machines, spare-parts stock, pallet racking, commercial kitchen equipment and heat pumps from closure and insolvency sales.
• Vehicles: evening auctions at the Ikast yard for cars, boats, motorcycles and trailers, a line HMA has run since taking over Herning Bilauktion in 2007.
• New trade goods and stock lots: factory-new sectional overhead doors and beds, office, bar and gaming chairs, knives and watches, plus building materials stripped from closed mink farms.

How the bidding works

Most sales are timed online auctions with a published closing time, midday or evening; the occasional forced sale runs live in the Ikast hall, where online bids count only as advance bids. You register as a private buyer or a company and wait for approval, new accounts are not approved outside office hours, and HMA can refuse a registration without stating why. Some auctions, and advance bids on the physical ones, are open only to CVR-registered businesses. A bid in the last minutes pushes that lot's close back two minutes, and lots close roughly ten seconds apart. Viewing is one named day, often 9:00 to 15:00, or by appointment. Payment falls due within three working days and before collection: bank transfer, card or MobilePay, anything above DKK 10,000 by transfer only, no cash, nothing paid at the pickup site, and a fee on some cards. Collection runs over one to four named days; there is usually forklift help at the Ikast yard, while at company clearances you bring your own helpers and loading gear. HMA ships nothing itself and lists haulier contacts instead, the exception being its recurring "fragtfri" sales, which go to a Danish parcel shop.

What to check before you bid

The premium is 15% with a minimum of DKK 100 per catalogue number, then 25% Danish VAT on both hammer price and premium; selected vehicle auctions in Ikast cap the fee at DKK 8,200 plus VAT per car, van under 3.5 t, motorcycle or caravan. Lots marked MF carry no VAT on the hammer price, but VAT still applies to the premium, which changes what you can reclaim. Buyers elsewhere in the EU need a valid VAT number: VAT is charged up front and refunded only after export proof such as a CMR reaches HMA within a month. Outside the EU it is ex works, with customs and transport on you, and private buyers living abroad get no refund at all. Everything sells as seen, with no warranty and no right of complaint, and auction purchases normally carry no cooling-off, never on vehicle, bankruptcy, forced or lost-property sales, though a private buyer of new goods online may get 14 days, with the premium kept and the return trip at your cost. Late collection costs DKK 50 per catalogue number or pallet space per day plus DKK 750 an hour for staff help, and uncollected lots can be resold. Lot descriptions are Danish, but the terms pages carry full English versions, notes for foreign buyers are repeated in English and the site runs a machine-translation widget.