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IT Scrap & Used IT Equipment Buyer in Dubai
Local context
Selling IT equipment from a Dubai business
Dubai is where many UAE companies keep their offices, regional headquarters and server rooms, so a large share of the country's business IT equipment is in use here: laptop fleets, desk PCs and monitors on office floors, and servers, storage and network hardware in on-site server rooms and data centers. When it is replaced, the old set often ends up as IT scrap in a store room or an emptied server room.
Much of that equipment sits in managed buildings, such as office towers and free-zone units, where building management or the free zone may have its own arrangements for moving goods out. Arrangements differ from site to site, so this page lists the questions worth asking your own building early.
Situations
When Dubai businesses sell IT equipment
The moments in a Dubai company's life when IT equipment most often becomes surplus.
Moving between offices
A move to another district or a newly fitted-out floor often comes with new equipment, and the old set stays behind.
Lease expiry or downsizing
Giving back a floor or moving somewhere smaller cuts the desks, and the computers and monitors that go with them.
Leaving or closing a free-zone office
A company relocating out of a free zone, or closing its free-zone unit, has to clear the IT equipment inside it.
Closing an office server room
Workloads move to the cloud or a data center, and the server room on the office floor is shut down.
Restructuring a regional office
A regional headquarters is reorganized or merged, and equipment from several teams becomes surplus at once.
Clearing out written-off equipment
Broken, faulty and written-off laptops, PCs and network hardware, cleared before a lease ends or a floor is handed back.
Equipment
Equipment we buy from Dubai offices and server rooms
What usually leaves a Dubai office floor or server room when a business moves, shrinks or modernizes.
Laptops
Laptop fleets replaced during a move or a refresh.
Desktops & Workstations
Desk PCs and all-in-ones from floors that are being refitted or handed back.
Monitors
Desk monitors cleared at the same time as the desktops.
Servers
Servers from office server rooms and data-center racks.
Networking Equipment
Switches, routers and firewalls from comms rooms and racks.
How it works
How a valuation works from Dubai
The same four steps apply anywhere in the UAE. Your location comes in at step one.
Step 01
Share your equipment details
Send your list, and add the building or free zone where the equipment is.
Step 02
Receive a valuation
We review the details you send and come back to you with a valuation.
Step 03
Agree the handover
Agree with us how and when the equipment will be handed over.
Step 04
Complete the sale
Once you accept the valuation, the sale is completed on the agreed terms.
Preparation
Before equipment leaves a Dubai office
Questions for your own building management or free zone. Every site handles this differently, so ask early and mention anything relevant in your enquiry.
Moving goods out
Ask your building management whether anything needs to be arranged before equipment is moved out of the building.
Lifts and loading areas
Ask whether a service lift or loading area has to be booked, and whether moves are limited to certain times.
Free-zone companies
If your company is in a free zone, ask the free-zone authority whether anything is needed before equipment leaves the zone.
Where the equipment sits
Note the building, floor and room for each group of equipment: office floors, a comms room or a server room.
Questions
Selling IT equipment in Dubai: common questions
Do you buy IT equipment from companies in Dubai free zones?
Yes. We buy from businesses across Dubai, including companies based in free zones, and the valuation works the same way. Mention the free zone in your enquiry, and ask the free-zone authority whether anything is needed before equipment leaves the zone.
Our equipment is on an upper floor of an office tower. What should we check?
Ask your building management early whether moving equipment out needs anything arranged, such as a booked service lift or a set time. Include the building and floor in your list, so the handover can be planned around whatever your building needs.
We're moving offices in Dubai. When should we ask for a valuation?
As soon as you know which equipment won't be moving with you. The valuation is based on the details you send, so it can be prepared while you are still planning the move. Tell us your move date and any restrictions your building has set.
Related pages
The sectors and the service behind most of these sales.
Corporate Offices
Office refreshes, moves and closures
Data Centers
Refresh, consolidation and migration projects
IT Asset Buyback
How a buyback works, step by step
Selling IT equipment in Dubai?
Send your asset list, with the building or free zone where the equipment is, and we'll prepare a valuation.
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