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What is your machinery worth?

Send us the list. We come back privately, in writing, with what we believe it is worth on the timeline you actually have, and we tell you which standard of value we used.

Why we do not publish a figure

A published figure is wrong by the time it is read. Values move with demand in the industry that uses the machine, with the cost of new equipment, with freight rates, and with how many identical machines came out of other closures that quarter. A number that ignores those things is not a valuation, it is a guess with a decimal point.

So we do it the other way round. You tell us what you have, we tell you what we think it is worth, and we show our working. If we would buy it outright, we say so and we say what we would pay.

What you get back

  • A written valuation, from a person, not an automated estimate.
  • The standard of value we used, and why that one fits your situation.
  • What we would pay outright, where we would buy it.
  • What removing it would involve, in plain words.
  • An honest answer if another route beats us for what you have.

What makes a valuation accurate

The list. 8 fields per machine turn a spreadsheet into something a buyer can price: make, model, year, serial, quantity, condition, whether it is under power, and what tooling goes with it. Add photographs and most of the guesswork disappears.

Half a list this week is worth more than a complete one next month. Send it rough and we will tell you what needs filling in.

Cast headstock of a long-bed engine lathe with the maker's name and capacity cast into the metal.
The nameplate is the machine's identity. On older equipment it is often the only reliable record of the build.

Before you fill anything in

If the machinery is still connected, leave it connected. A machine a buyer can watch run is worth materially more than the same machine on a pallet with its cables cut, and it is the one thing you cannot get back once it is done.

Would rather talk it through?
(864) 574-0404, or email sales@americanplantandequipment.com.

Free machinery valuation

One form, and then a person reads it. Nothing on this page is published and nothing is shared.

Make, model, year, quantity, condition, whether it is still under power, and when it comes free. A rough list is enough to start. Photographs help more than descriptions. Reply to our first email with them and they reach the same file.

Fields marked with an asterisk are required. Your message goes to our sales desk at sales@americanplantandequipment.com and nowhere else. We do not publish what you send us, and we do not sell or share it. See our privacy note.

Read this first if you have time

Three guides that answer most of what people ask us before they send a list.

The 3 numbers that decide value

Fair market value, orderly liquidation value and forced liquidation value are 3 answers to the same question. The gap between them is mostly time.

Read the guide

The 9 value leaks

Cannibalised parts, lost tooling, cut cables and the missing nameplate. Most of them are free to avoid, if you know about them first.

Read the guide

Building the list

The 8 fields that make a list quotable and the 5 photographs that stop a buyer needing a second visit.

Read the guide