Run transparent reverse auctions for sales, surplus materials, and waste. Get the highest price with real-time competitive bidding.
Create multi-item lot listings, invite bidders, and watch prices compete upward in real-time. No phone calls, no spreadsheets, no manual tracking.
Create lots with multiple sale items, each with its own unit, quantity, and base rate. Batch or individual bidding modes.
Multiple pickup locations per listing. Bidders see all locations and bid per-location or overall.
Real-time SSE pushes rank updates to every bidder. No polling, no delays. Instant competitive pressure.
Bid in last N minutes? Auction auto-extends to prevent sniping. Configurable trigger + max extensions.
Full modification trail per bid. Past bids with item-wise rates, ranks, and won status.
Allocate → Manager approves → Bidder notified. L1 not selected? Reason required + audit logged.
Be among the first to modernise asset disposal with competitive bidding.
Book a Free Demo →These are the problems plants describe before they change anything. Not all of them apply to every company — most companies recognise four or five.
Scrap and surplus go to the same two or three parties your storekeeper has known for years. They know that too. The price they offer is the price they know nobody else is quoting against — not because anyone is dishonest, but because that is what happens when only three people are asked.
Ferrous scrap moves with the daily market. A rate that was fair in March is low in September. Without a live comparison, the only reference point is the last sale — which was itself set the same way.
Material leaves on one weighment and is disputed on another. Grade gets reclassified at the buyer's yard. With nothing recorded at lot level, the argument has no reference to settle against.
Scrap is often lifted first and paid for later. When the buyer delays, the plant has already lost the material and its leverage.
Asset and scrap disposal is where auditors look hardest, precisely because there is no purchase invoice to compare against. “We called three parties” is not evidence.
Obsolete inventory, rejected castings and idle machines stay in the yard because nobody owns the job of selling them and no one knows what they are worth.
The same MS turnings fetch different rates at two units of the same company, and nobody at head office can see it happening.
Each of these answers one of the problems above. Nothing here needs new hardware or a new team.
Your existing buyers stay — they bid too, and often win. What changes is who else is in the room. Verified scrap buyers, recyclers and re-rollers get a WhatsApp link, open it on any phone, and bid against each other for a fixed window. No app, no signup, no training.
One listing can carry MS turnings from Plant A, SS cuttings from Plant B and a lot of empty drums from the stores, each with its own quantity, unit and minimum increment. Bidders quote line by line or for the whole basket.
If a bid lands in the final minutes, the clock extends. The lot closes when bidding actually stops, not when a stopwatch runs out — which is where the last few percent of price usually lives.
You choose which group of buyers sees which lot. Your ferrous buyers never see the e-waste lot, and two competing buyers never see each other's identity — only their own bid and their rank.
Set the smallest allowed step per item — ₹50/MT on MS scrap, ₹5/kg on aluminium. Enforced by the server, so nobody wins a lot by raising the price by one rupee.
Every bid is timestamped and logged with the bidder, the amount and the time. The allocation letter carries the whole trail. This is usually what the auditor wanted from scrap sales in the first place.
Head office sees what each unit sold, to whom, at what rate, and how many bidders competed — in one place, without asking anyone for a report.
The other side of the same market. A process that only works for the buyer does not stay competitive for long.
By the time a plant calls you, they have usually already called someone else. Most scrap never reaches you at all.
You quote, you lose, and nobody tells you by how much. There is no way to get better at quoting.
A trip to the plant to inspect a lot you may not win is a cost you carry whether you win or not.
Quantities move, grades get redefined, and the basis of your quote quietly shifts after you have given it.
Suppliers, buyers, forwarders and transporters use BidBegin free. There is no fee to be invited, to bid, or to win.
Suppliers and buyers never pay to bid on BidBegin. You are invited, you bid, you pay only for the material you win.
A WhatsApp link, opened in any browser. No app to install, no password to remember, no training.
Not the other bids — just where you stand. Enough to decide whether to improve, without exposing anyone's number.
Grade, quantity, unit and location are on the listing, with documents attached, so you can price it without a site visit.
You know exactly when it ends, and auto-extend means you are never beaten by a bid you had no chance to answer.
When you win, the allocation letter states the lot, the rate and the terms. Nothing changes afterwards.