Terms: how a deal with us works
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What governs a purchase
Each lot is its own deal, and the offer document for that lot is the thing that governs it. The offer states what we are buying, the figure, the payment method, what triggers payment, and who pays the freight. You see all of that before you agree to anything. Nothing on this website is an offer to buy: a figure only exists once we have seen your list and sent you one in writing.
The offer is written for the lot in front of us. There is no standing master agreement to sign before we can talk, and no annual contract. You accept the offer in writing, by email is enough, and it stands for 7 days before we reprice it. On the day of collection we sign a bill of sale that records the lot and the agreed figure, and we supply a W-9 on request for your accounts payable file.
Equipment covered by these terms
We buy computing hardware: laptops, desktops, servers, storage, monitors, projectors, phones, tablets and Chromebooks. We take the whole lot rather than the best of it, and we take mixed grades, including cosmetically damaged and non-working units.
We do not buy networking gear, switches, routers, chargers, headphones or accessories. We are not a certified processing facility, we hold no R2v3, e-Stewards or NAID AAA certification, and if your project requires a certified processor we say so instead of taking the job. That is set out in full here.
Title, risk and what you are telling us when you sell
We buy outright and take title. In selling to us you are telling us the equipment is yours to sell, that it is free of a lease, a lien or a finance agreement, and that you have whatever internal approval your organization requires. If any of that is uncertain, tell us early. A district surplus resolution or a lessor consent is a normal part of a deal, not an obstacle.
Title passes at collection, when the lot is loaded onto the truck we booked. SJ Wholesale carries the risk of loss and damage in transit from that point. If a pallet is lost or damaged on the road, that is our loss to settle with the carrier, and it does not reduce what we agreed to pay you.
Discrepancies between the list and the delivery
A list written from an asset register is never exactly what comes off the dock, and we price on that assumption. If what arrives is different, we tell you what we found, item by item, and we agree a revised figure with you before anything moves further. We do not adjust a figure quietly and we do not present a revision as final.
The procedure is written into the offer document, so it is agreed before anything is loaded rather than argued after. You get a written receipt report listing what arrived against what you sent. If we cannot agree a revised figure, we return the lot to you at our cost, on the original freight terms.
An item we will not take does not get scrapped on our authority. We hold it and you choose. It goes back on the next collection we run to your area, or we dispose of it. Nothing happens to it until you tell us which.
Getting the equipment to us
We arrange the collection and we never charge you a fee to take equipment away. Who pays the freight depends on the size of the lot and the distance. On lots of 100 units or more we cover the freight. Below that we agree who pays before you commit, based on the distance. Whichever way it lands, it is stated in the offer before you accept it. The practical detail of a collection is here.
The data on the drives is settled before a pickup, not after. What we can and cannot do about drives, in writing, is on the data handling page.
What the offer document settles about money
The payment method, the event that triggers payment and the settlement window are all stated in the offer before you accept it. We do not ask you to agree to a figure and work the terms out afterwards.
- Settlement window: 3 to 5 business days from verified receipt. There is no consignment, and we do not pay you out of the proceeds of a later resale.
- Payment methods: ACH or wire transfer. Escrow is available where the size of the deal justifies it. We do not pay deposits before collection.
- Insurance: cargo cover rides on every collection, and The carrier we book issues the certificate of insurance. Your organization can be named as certificate holder on it, and your building manager can be named alongside you. The limit on the cover is confirmed in writing for your specific job rather than published here, because a job-specific figure on a web page is a figure that goes stale.
Using this website
The pages on this site describe what we buy and how we work. They are not a price list, not a valuation and not a binding offer. Timings, lot sizes and freight rules on this site are the normal case and not a guarantee for your job: the figure that binds either of us is the one in your offer document. What we collect when you use the form is on the privacy page.
Limits on what we owe you
If something goes wrong with a purchase, what we owe you is capped at the amount we agreed to pay for that lot. We do not accept liability for indirect or consequential loss: lost profit, lost business, lost data, or the cost of a project that ran late. That cap does not apply to the freight, where we carry the risk in transit and settle it as stated above, and it does not limit anything that cannot be limited by law.
You are responsible for the data on the equipment until the point you hand it over, and for telling us about anything on it that we need to know. What we do and do not do about drives is set out on the data handling page, and it is worth reading before a collection rather than after.
These terms are governed by the law of the State of New Jersey, and the state and federal courts sitting in New Jersey are the venue for any dispute. This page takes effect in September 2026, and we will date any change to it here.
Ask before you agree
If a term matters to your organization, ask Seth for it in writing before you commit anything, and ask for it against your lot rather than against this page. He would rather answer the question than lose the lot at the dock.