Moniteur des Ventes
Moniteur des Ventes is the Drouot group's platform for the unglamorous half of the French auction market: professional equipment and vehicles rather than art. More than 800 selling operators list here — auction houses, local authorities and public institutions — which makes it the widest single view of French business-asset and public-sector disposals. It is the counterpart to drouot.com, run by the same group but with a completely different catalogue and a different buyer in mind.
What you can buy
- Vehicles: passenger cars and commercial vehicles, often in mixed sales alongside equipment.
- Trade and workshop equipment: tools and machinery from businesses being wound up — a typical sale might combine bakery equipment, a dental laboratory and motorcycles.
- Office and IT: computing equipment, telephony and office furniture.
- Catering equipment: the standing supply from restaurant closures.
- Household appliances and audio-visual: the consumer end of business clearances.
- Public-sector disposals: a dedicated section for goods sold by public bodies.
How the bidding works
Sales are live, online and community-format, with new ones every day and a mobile app. Each sale is run by the operator who consigned it — a selarl of auctioneers, a local authority or a public institution — at their own address, which the listing states. As on any marketplace of this kind, the terms that bind you are the ones published by that operator for that sale, not a single platform-wide set.
What to check before you bid
Check the sale location before the bid rather than after: lots sit wherever the operator holds them, and a mixed sale in a small town can be several hours from Paris. French voluntary auctions of this type carry a statutory fee scale, so find the published barème de frais for the sale and read whether a minimum charge applies — on low-value lots that minimum, not the percentage, is what you actually pay. Goods sell as they stand, and for machinery the viewing is where the purchase is decided.
