Sitting on retired IT? Recover CAD value — any scenario.
If your IT is dormant — cancelled project, surplus from a tech refresh, ageing inventory in a store room, kit released by an end-of-lease return, M&A redundancy, branch-closure stock, going-out-of-business liquidation, or an auction-pending estate — every week it sits there it depreciates and carries quiet security risk. We turn that dormant kit back into CAD. Two-hour written quote, NIST 800-88 destruction on every data-bearing drive, settlement in 5 business days of uplift.
Which one is yours?
Each of these is a routine engagement for us — different drivers, same disposition discipline, same CAD residual recovery. Click through for the relevant playbook, or skip ahead and request a quote.
Tech refresh / hardware refresh
Annual or rolling refresh just retired hundreds of servers, laptops, or networking units. Recurring buyback frameworks reduce per-engagement onboarding.
Read more →Cancelled IT project
Project shelved, hardware bought but never deployed. Often the highest-value buyback — kit is new-in-box or factory-sealed, near-list residuals possible.
Read more →Ageing inventory / surplus stock
Equipment quietly depreciating in a store room or DC corner. Whatever it is — older Gen8/Gen9 servers, unused spares, surplus parts — there's a refurb buyer for most of it.
Read more →End-of-lease recovery
Operating lease maturing, return-to-lessor or buyout-and-resell decision pending. We document condition, destroy data, and run either path.
Read more →M&A / divestiture / carve-out
Post-merger redundant IT, divestiture-driven separation, carve-out leaving systems orphaned. Audit-ready evidence pack for both buyer and seller deal-closing files.
Read more →Branch closure / office downsize
Bank branch consolidation, office closure, regional HQ relocation. Multi-site consolidated pickup with one Certificate of Destruction across the lot.
Read more →Going-out-of-business / liquidation
Wind-down or insolvency-led IT liquidation. We work alongside liquidators, receivers and estate trustees to convert hardware to a documented CAD recovery.
Read more →Auction-pending estate
Hardware lots heading to commercial auction. Often a faster, cleaner CAD recovery via direct buyback — no buyer's premium, no marketing lag, no consignment wait.
Read more →Data-centre relocation / consolidation
Source-DC decom, asset reconciliation, redeploy-or-retire decisions per device, floor-space release receipts.
Read more →Dormant IT loses value every quarter it sits there.
Three forces compound against retired IT the longer it stays in your store room. Depreciation: server and storage residuals fall 8-15% per quarter on average; networking 5-10%; AI hardware moves even faster, sometimes 5-15% month-on-month. A DL380 Gen10 with C$2,400 residual today is typically C$1,500-1,800 in twelve months. Security risk: retired-but-not-destroyed drives are an audit finding waiting to happen — PIPEDA Schedule 1, Principle 4.7 (Safeguards), OSFI B-13 8.2, and internal information-security evidence cycles all penalise undocumented retired media. Opportunity cost: floor space, security camera coverage, asset-register tail — retired IT consumes operational attention even when it's not generating value. The cleanest answer is to convert it now, document the destruction, close the asset-register line, and move on.
Asset classes inside any of the scenarios above.
If your dormant inventory contains any of the following, we'll quote it. Mixed lots welcome — most surplus engagements are mixed by definition.
- ♦ Enterprise servers — HPE ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge, Cisco UCS, Lenovo ThinkSystem, IBM, Sun/Oracle. Gen8 through Gen11.
- ♦ Storage arrays — NetApp FAS / AFF, Dell EMC, HPE 3PAR / Nimble / Alletra, Pure Storage, IBM Storwize.
- ♦ Networking — Cisco Catalyst / Nexus / ASR, Juniper EX / MX / QFX / SRX, Arista, Aruba, F5.
- ♦ AI hardware — NVIDIA H100, A100, H200, L40S, RTX 6000 Ada; AMD MI series; AI workstations.
- ♦ Laptops, desktops, workstations — bulk corporate refresh stock 50–5,000+ units.
- ♦ Components — server RAM (DDR4/DDR5), NVMe + SATA SSDs, server CPUs, GPU cards, NICs, HBAs.
- ♦ Data-bearing media for destruction-only — HDDs, SSDs, backup tapes, archive media. Per-job Certificate.
- ♦ Brand-new / never-deployed / factory-sealed — typically the highest residuals; bring the original packaging if available.
Liquidators, trustees, M&A counsel — we've seen it.
Surplus and scenario-driven engagements often involve someone other than the regular IT-asset team. We're set up for that — the document trail, the bank-account verification, the chain-of-title attestations, the receiver-coordination. Common counterparts:
- Liquidators & receivers · Court-appointed or creditor-appointed liquidators winding down operating entities. We provide buyback documentation that fits the realisation report.
- Estate trustees · Probate-driven estate IT — typically smaller scopes but document-sensitive. Discreet, single-point-of-contact handling.
- M&A counsel · Carve-out and divestiture work. NDA-first, scope-tight, audit-pack delivered before deal close.
- Procurement / facilities · Branch-closure and office-downsize work coordinated by facilities or admin teams, not IT. We translate between asset-register and floor-clear language.
- Lessor / leasing companies · End-of-term reconciliation against lessor inventory; return-to-lessor or buyout-and-resell paths.
Standard timeline: 14-21 days end-to-end.
Day 0: you send an asset list (or a rough description). Day 0+2hr: indicative CAD quote. Day 1-3: site survey if scope >$50K. Day 5-14: locked GPS-tracked uplift. Day 7-19: NIST 800-88 destruction at our facility. Day 12-21: per-job Certificate of Destruction + CAD settlement applied. Faster paths exist for AI hardware (priority quote within 4 hours, uplift within 5 days) and for time-pressured liquidations (case-by-case acceleration).
Maxicom Canada — frequently asked
We're a liquidator / receiver — can you work directly with us?
Yes, this is routine. We'll execute an NDA, work to your realisation-report timeline, and provide buyback documentation in the format the creditors / court will expect. CAD settlement to the realisation account.
The kit is brand-new in box from a cancelled project — does that change residuals?
Significantly upward. Factory-sealed and never-deployed kit typically commands 50-80% of original purchase price (vs 30-50% for working/tested production-cycled equivalents). Bring serial numbers + original packaging photos for the fastest quote.
How quickly can you act on a going-out-of-business liquidation?
We've completed full-warehouse buyback engagements in 7-10 days from first call. Fastest path: email or WhatsApp purchase@maxicom.ca with a description of what's in the warehouse, target wind-down date, and the contact authorised to sign. Quote within 4-8 hours typical.
We have ageing inventory but no asset list — can you still quote?
Yes. Send photos and rough quantities. We can issue an indicative range within hours, then refine after a 1-hour site walk-through. Most surplus engagements start exactly this way.
Do M&A divestiture engagements require special handling?
Yes — typically NDA before scope, tighter audit-pack for both buyer and seller files, and accelerated timeline tied to deal close. We're set up for this; see the M&A divestiture playbook.
Can you quote on retired networking gear, or only servers?
Both. Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Aruba networking carries strong refurb residual (C$800-C$15,000+ per unit depending on model). Configuration sanitisation included in the buyback flow.
Can you handle a mix of working and damaged units in one engagement?
Yes — explicitly. Working units typically refurbish-and-remarket (positive CAD residual); damaged or end-of-life units typically destruction-only (cost-neutral or small positive). The mix is reflected line-by-line in the quote.
What if the kit is in a customer site / colocation cage we don't own?
Common — we coordinate with the cage operator or site facilities team on access. Equinix, ST Telemedia, Digital Realty, NTT, Iron Mountain access workflows are routine for us.