About Sparehawk

Spare parts — in every industry — are supplied by hundreds of small specialists: authorised distributors, independent stockists, surplus dealers, refurbishers. Each holds a slice of the market and none of them is searchable next to the others. A maintenance engineer with a failed drive at 22:00 has no way to see who has one, at what price, in what condition.

The result is a market that works badly for both sides. Buyers pay for urgency and for not knowing. Suppliers with the right part on the shelf never hear about the request.

A catalogue of parts with their lifecycle status, their documented successors and their alternative part numbers — because half the difficulty is establishing what the number on the drawing refers to today.

On top of it, the offers suppliers publish from their own stock lists, with visible prices where the supplier permits, and one request that goes to the suppliers who can supply the parts on your list. Quotes come back into one comparison instead of eight PDFs.

From suppliers with larger catalogues. Buyers pay nothing. A supplier starts with a free period and then pays for a monthly plan set by how many items they list; a small catalogue stays free for good. We take no commission, and the buyer pays the supplier directly.

Nothing else is for sale — no paid ranking and no fee per request. If that ever changes, it will change on the pricing page and in the blog before it changes on a results page.

Sparehawk is built by a small team in Europe. The company details, the registered address and the responsible person are on the imprint page, as German and EU law requires — and because a marketplace that will not say who runs it has not earned a purchase order.