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FromMarket deskdesk@comparemachinery.com

Toyou@company.eu

SubjectYour Komatsu D61PX shortlist — 3 candidates, 7–12% under median

Good morning. Three Komatsu D61PX-24s to flag this week. The current European median sits at €78,400; each of the following is priced meaningfully below it.

01
Komatsu D61PX-24
2019 · 4,820 h · NL
Asking€•••,•••▾ 12% under median
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02
Komatsu D61PX-24
2017 · 6,100 h · BE
Asking€•••,•••▾ 9% under median
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03
Komatsu D61PX-24
2018 · 5,340 h · DE
Asking€•••,•••▾ 7% under median
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Nothing else sits under median this week worth writing you about. We’ll keep the request open and write again when that changes.

The market deskCompareMachinery

Illustrative — mock asking prices, real formatting.

Four subject lines you might see

Every email the desk writes falls into one of these.

A shortlist, a price-watch ping, an honest empty result, or the Friday market note. Plain text, direct links, no dashboard to open.

ShortlistToday · 14:13

Market desk

Your Komatsu D61PX shortlist — 3 candidates, 7–12% under median

Median this week sits at €78,400. Three sellers are priced meaningfully below. Direct links attached.

Price watchYesterday · 09:04

Market desk

Your Caterpillar 320E watch — a listing just crossed €62,000

You asked us to write when one dropped below €63k. This one did, 11h ago, in Belgium.

Nothing to writeMon · 08:30

Market desk

Your Liebherr PR744 brief — no below-median candidates this week

Firm week for PR744 sellers. We will keep reading and write the moment that changes.

Weekly noteFri · 07:00

Market desk

Friday market note — used excavator asks softened 2.4% this month

Where medians moved, where they held, and what the desk is watching next week.

How we curate

We read the whole market. You get a shortlist.

The service earns its keep by doing the scroll for you. From thousands of live listings down to three or four we think are worth your attention, with a plain email between the two.

01
Active European listings read
173
Across six machine classes and eight countries on the desk. Refreshed several times a day.
02
Flagged below the current read
47
What the desk is watching this week: listings the rolling European median has moved past on the high side. 6 – 13% under median.
03
Sent to your inbox on a request
3 – 5
The considered few, each a direct link to the seller’s own page. Typically within the hour. If nothing’s worth writing about, we write that instead.

Seven-day movers

Where the market moved this week.

The most-requested models across the European used-equipment market, by current read. No historical index — just what we’re looking at right now.

#	Model	Listings	Median ask	7d	Below mkt
01	CaterpillarD7R	11	€74,444	▾ 1.7%	2.7%
02	KomatsuD155	11	€159,444	▴ 1.7%	6.3%
03	Caterpillar320	11	€115,833	▾ 4.2%	1.0%
04	John Deere850J	11	€87,778	▴ 2.5%	7.2%
05	VolvoEC220	11	€84,056	▴ 1.7%	6.3%
06	LiebherrPR734	11	€158,333	▾ 0.8%	3.6%
07	CaterpillarD8T	10	€258,750	▾ 3.3%	1.0%
08	CaterpillarD6N	9	€103,056	▴ 2.5%	7.2%
09	KomatsuD85EX	9	€105,556	▾ 3.3%	1.0%
10	KomatsuPC210	9	€76,000	▴ 3.3%	8.1%

Heat by country

Which market is printing the friendliest ask.

Median asking price for a standard example of each class, read against a rolling European baseline. Orange is where buyers save; green is where sellers are holding firm.

Excavator

€68.4k

-3.1%

€65.2k

-2.4%

€71.8k

+0.8%

€66.1k

-1.2%

€62.9k

-4.6%

€61.4k

-3.2%

€58.7k

+1.1%

€69.2k

+0.4%

Bulldozer

€82.1k

+0.6%

€79.8k

-0.2%

€86.4k

+1.8%

€81.0k

-0.8%

€78.3k

-2.1%

€74.6k

-5.4%

€71.2k

-1.4%

€84.1k

+0.9%

Wheel loader

€54.3k

-1.4%

€52.1k

-2.8%

€58.2k

+1.2%

€53.8k

-1.9%

€51.2k

-3.4%

€49.4k

-4.1%

€46.8k

-0.6%

€56.7k

+0.7%

Mobile crane

€142.4k

-0.8%

€138.1k

-1.6%

€151.8k

+1.4%

€144.2k

+0.2%

€136.5k

-2.3%

€128.7k

-3.8%

€118.3k

-1.1%

€148.6k

+0.6%

Cross-border buying is the quiet advantage here — on today’s read, a Dutch buyer looking south saves roughly 5% on a standard bulldozer.

Where the market sits today

Start from the class you’re buying.

Each tile opens a public summary — median, range, the models the desk is tracking. Individual matches are still sent privately by email.

Excavators

Median ask

€116k

Listings read

Softening through spring

Caterpillar 32011 listed Caterpillar 3369 listed Hitachi ZX2104 listed Komatsu PC2109 listed Komatsu PC3603 listed Volvo EC22011 listed

Bulldozers

Median ask

€115k

Listings read

108

Stable across Europe

Caterpillar D59 listed Caterpillar D6N9 listed Caterpillar D6T8 listed Caterpillar D7R11 listed Caterpillar D8T10 listed John Deere 750J3 listed+8 more

Wheel loaders

Median ask

€145k

Listings read

Firm in Germany

Caterpillar 966M3 listed Komatsu WA3808 listed Volvo L120H7 listed

Open on the desk

What buyers asked us to look for this week.

An anonymised log of live requests sitting with the desk right now. Neither the buyer nor any seller is ever named on this page.

requests handled this week

14h agoBuyer in BelgiumExcavatorunder €75kShortlist dispatched3 candidates

1d agoBuyer in NetherlandsBulldozerunder €85kShortlist dispatched2 candidates

1d agoBuyer in GermanyWheel loaderunder €100kWatchingwatching the ask

2d agoBuyer in FranceBackhoeunder €45kNo match this weekno match this week

3d agoBuyer in SpainExcavatorunder €60kShortlist dispatched5 candidates

3d agoBuyer in ItalyWheel loaderunder €70kShortlist dispatched4 candidates

Three rules the desk runs on

Not a marketplace. Not a broker. Not a catalogue.

No commission, ever.

We never sit between you and the seller. You pay the seller's own asking price; no invoice reaches your door from us on close, no affiliate rebate runs behind the transaction.

Matches are private.

Everything we publish on this site is aggregated — medians, ranges, counts. The specific machines we think you should look at are written to your inbox alone and never republished here.

A shortlist, not a catalogue.

You get three to five considered candidates per request, not three hundred rows to skim. If nothing worth writing sits below median this week, we'll say so plainly and hold the request open.

Before you send us a request

Questions buyers ask first.

What does a buyer pay?

Nothing. No account, no subscription, no commission at close. We keep the buyer side free on purpose — it's what lets us stay honest about which options we actually recommend.

How does a request turn into an email?

You tell us a class, a make and a model, and give us an inbox. The desk reads the current European market for that specification and writes back, usually within the hour, with three to five candidates priced under a fair market read. Each row links straight to the seller's own listing.

Is this a marketplace?

No. No inventory is hosted here, no payments are processed, no enquiries are forwarded. This page is a market read; the matches for your request are written privately.

What if nothing is worth flagging this week?

Then we say so. A brief that reads 'nothing worth writing this week — we will come back' is the most honest version of this service we can send. We would rather skip than pad.

How fresh is the read?

The page updates several times a day. A new request is answered against the freshest read, typically minutes old, and the brief itself arrives within the hour in the great majority of cases.

What do you keep when I unsubscribe?

Your email address and your last request. On unsubscribe we delete both in one click. Your address is never forwarded or resold.

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Every email the desk writes falls into one of these.

Your Komatsu D61PX shortlist — 3 candidates, 7–12% under median

Your Caterpillar 320E watch — a listing just crossed €62,000

Your Liebherr PR744 brief — no below-median candidates this week

Friday market note — used excavator asks softened 2.4% this month

We read the whole market. You get a shortlist.

Where the market moved this week.

Which market is printing the friendliest ask.

Start from the class you’re buying.

Excavators

Bulldozers

Wheel loaders

What buyers asked us to look for this week.

Not a marketplace. Not a broker. Not a catalogue.

No commission, ever.

Matches are private.

A shortlist, not a catalogue.

Questions buyers ask first.

Reading behind an eighty-thousand-euro decision.

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