NetBid

NetBid Industrie-Auktionen AG is a Hamburg auction house that has sold used plant and machinery online since 1999, and belongs to the Angermann Group, whose valuation side the company puts at close to 70 years of practice. Stock comes from insolvency estates, company liquidations, inventory clearances, plant closures and fleet renewals, with lots standing in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Portugal. It also sells by private treaty, writes fair-value, going-concern and liquidation appraisals off an in-house database of more than 700,000 sale records, arranges sale-and-leaseback, and will run an entire disposal as a managed project; the auction and appraisal arms are certified to DIN EN ISO 9001:2015.

What you can buy

• Metalworking: CNC machining centres, lathes, milling and drilling machines, die-sinking EDM, fibre laser cutting, robotic welding cells, guillotine shears, band saws, shot blasting, coordinate measuring machines.
• Vehicles and transport: ex-fleet company cars and vans, DAF and comparable heavy trucks, trailers, government fleet vehicles, garage and workshop equipment.
• Forklifts, cranes and handling: diesel and electric forklifts, high-lift pallet trucks, scissor lift trucks, jib, swivel and overhead cranes, transport trolleys, pallet racking.
• Construction: facade scaffolding and stair towers, construction hoists and work platforms, mini dumpers, site power distribution, harbour equipment.
• Food, pharma and packaging: freeze dryers, meat deboning and sausage lines, drying and holding ovens, belt, roller and screw conveyors, tablet presses, coaters, blister and packaging lines, labelling stations, laboratory apparatus.
• Textiles, wood, plastics and print: tufting machines and weaving looms, carpet finishing lines, industrial sewing machines, panel saws and edge banders, injection moulding machines, extrusion lines, die casting cells; print and paper is a listed industry too, though a thin one.

How the bidding works

Registration is free and open to companies, partnerships and private individuals of full legal capacity; minors may not register. The catalogue filters by auction type, country and industry. Sales run as timed online auctions with NetBid staff on site rather than as live salerooms, lots close a few minutes apart, and bids are binding and irrevocable. A bid in the last ten minutes extends that lot by ten more, repeatedly, so end times drift. The auctioneer can ask for a deposit, and where the minimum bid is €5,000 or more you must produce a bank confirmation of a valid, active account before you can take part. A hammer price can be accepted under reservation for seven days while the seller decides. Payment is by bank transfer immediately after the invoice, and collection happens on the dates set for that site. Unsold lots often reappear in an After Sale at reduced prices, and other assets run as trading or private treaty sales, where an asking price is published and you submit a binding offer the seller is free to refuse.

What to check before you bid

The buyer's premium is 18% of the net hammer price, with different terms possible in individual sales, so add it before you decide your limit. Prices are net: EU buyers need a certified VAT identification number, and buyers outside the EU pay VAT as a deposit that is refunded once an export certificate proves the goods left. Machines are sold in the condition in which they could have been inspected, without warranty, so book the inspection — usually by appointment rather than a fixed open day — or send a fitter; photographs will not tell you spindle hours, missing controls or whether a software licence transfers. Dismantling, loading and transport are your cost: anchored presses and production lines need riggers and crane time that can rival the hammer price. Miss the collection window and storage is charged to you. Lot pages carry a note that parts are machine translated and the German original applies, and the contract runs under German law.