How we price surplus fiber optic cable
Every reel is priced on its own, from the tag photos: count, series, part number, footage, date code and condition. Ribbon, hybrid and 864 ct are priced off the spec on the tag like everything else. You get one firm offer in writing within 24 business hours, and the number doesn’t change at pickup.
Closures, pedestals, vaults and hardware price off the tag and the part number rather than the foot. Send photos. FOSC-450s and dome closures move fast — those are the last thing that should go in a scrap bin.
What pushes the offer up
- Long continuous footage on one reel — 10,000 ft beats four short ends adding to the same number
- Tags on, legible, with a readable date code
- Name-brand series — Corning ALTOS, CommScope, Prysmian
- Factory reels, jacket clean, both ends sealed, flanges intact
- Several reels going out on one truck — the freight spreads across the lot
- High count. The per-foot number climbs faster than the count does
What pulls it down
- Partial reels with unknown footage — a blind reel prices cautiously
- Tags gone and jacket printing worn off
- Old date codes
- One small reel a long way from any lane we run
- Cut ends, kinked cable, a flange broken off, water sitting in an open end
