How to buy
How buying from us works, step by step
Seven steps, from your first message to the documents landing in your inbox. Hold us to them.
You tell us what you need
Machine type, how you will use it, your destination port, and your budget range. The budget line is what gets you the right units in the first reply instead of the fourth.
We send you what is actually in the yard
Specification, photographs of the real units, and what the spread of years and condition looks like. Where we do not have an answer we go and get it from the yard, which is ours, so it comes back the same day or the next one.
Video call from the yard
Before any money moves, we get on a call with somebody standing in front of your unit. You direct the camera. Ask every exporter you are talking to for this. The reaction tells you a lot.
Proforma Invoice
Written confirmation: unit, specification, terms, incoterm, payment terms and bank account. The account name matches our registered name. Check it against the About page before you transfer anything.
Deposit, 50%
Your unit goes into our workshop the same week. You get the progress in photographs at each stage, so you can see where your machine is while your money is with us.
Balance, then loading
Photographs and video of the finished unit before it goes on the truck to the port, then the export documents you need to clear it on arrival.
Shipping, and we stay reachable
These models are common across Africa, so parts are easy to find locally. If something is wrong on arrival you are still talking to the same team.
Check the bank account name before you transfer
The account named on your Proforma Invoice matches our registered company name. We will never ask you to pay a personal account. If any exporter, us included, asks you to send money to an individual's account, stop. Our registered details are on the About page →
What happens to your machine before it ships
Every used unit we sell goes through our own workshop, in our own yard, before it is loaded.
That is the part of this trade that usually happens somewhere you cannot see. A unit is bought at auction or off a fleet, moved to a yard, tidied enough to photograph, and put on a ship. The buyer finds out what was actually done to it when it arrives.
Ours is inspected, put right and photographed at each stage, and the photographs come to you while the work is happening rather than afterwards. You are looking at your unit, in our yard, with the previous picture still in the thread to compare it against.
Ask us for the detail on the specific machine you are buying. What a 2020 tipper needs and what a 2024 tractor unit needs are different lists, and we would rather send you the real one for your unit than publish a general one that flatters both.
FOB or CIF, and decide it early
It changes what you are comparing. Two quotations on different incoterms are not comparable numbers, and that is where most confusion in this trade starts.
FOB
You buy the machine, we get it to the ship. You arrange the sea freight and the insurance.
Cheaper on paper and more work for you. It makes sense when you already have a forwarder you trust.
CIF
We arrange the freight and the insurance through to your port. One number, less for you to manage.
Simpler, and the right answer for most first orders.
If you are in a right-hand-drive country, settle it now
Almost every unit we sell is left-hand drive and convertible. The conversion is a real piece of work and it belongs on the Proforma Invoice, not in a later conversation. What converting actually involves →
Ask for both and compare
You can use your own forwarder or ours, whichever gives you the better rate. It is your choice, and sometimes yours is cheaper. Check both. How freight is actually priced →
Start at step one
Machine, use, destination port, budget range. One message.