Franklin Equipment has started an online auction, allowing customers to bid directly from their phones. Customers can bid on equipment knowing the equipment’s specific hours of usage and condition. Many units sell with the Franklin exclusive “Franklin Facts” lifetime maintenance report.
Buyers receive free shipping to Franklin Equipment location where they can pick up their purchase. Potential buyers can have pre-approved financing for the equipment they purchase. Auction inventory includes reconditioned skid-steer loaders, compact track loaders, mini-excavators, concrete equipment, landscaping equipment, trailers, tractors, lifts, attachments, and more.
Central Ohio participants are invited to attend the Auction Watch Party at the company’s Groveport, Ohio, headquarters on Dec. 6. The event begins at noon with barbeque for all attendees. Happy Hour starts at 3 p.m. with more food, drinks and giveaways. Attendees can sign up for $500 off an auction skid loader purchase. Deals will be offered on new and used equipment. Participants are invited to bring toys and monetary donations to the Firefighters for Kids Toy Drive and receive a limited edition Franklin Equipment hat.
The Online Franklin Auction opens Nov. 29th and closes Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. Customers can bid at http://franklin.givesmart.com.
Franklin Equipment is No. 57 on the RER 100.
About the Author
Michael Roth
Editor
Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.