Email: shop@ups-trader.co.uk

About us

We have been retailing UPS and associated hardware since Aug 2001. We have thousands of units in stock and have extended experience of working with UPS. We can guide customers to the the best option for their specific use, and all of our units are priced at a fraction of their original RRP. Unless stated otherwise, our UPS will have new cells fitted and 12 month RTB warranty with us. They will all be fully functional.

We also offer the battery packs that UPS are dependent upon.

We operate from a 500 square meter warehouse in Warrington. 

For every transaction, and every customer interaction we aim to meet the level and standard that we  would like to receive ourselves. We make extra efforts to achieve this under strenuous and frustrating circumstances. Every hour there are small things that can be done to make sure we shoulder our share of the burden in making the world better. 

Green thinking: As a seller of used goods we are an enabler of re-use. Obviously the cost saving of buying used compared to new is a major driver, but there is increasing customer focus on what the cost to the planet is. Buying used + refurbished helps people minimise the depleting effect of commercial manufacturing activity on the environment. 

Goods packed and ready for the daily courier collections.

4x 10KVA UPS on test. Note the cell packs are not original, but performance was identical.

General stock area + a large 3 Phase UPS packed and ready for international haulage.

Cell rebuild kits packed and ready to ship. Note no foam was used in the packaging, but we strengthened using cardboard camshell reinforcements. The banding is still plastic which is not ideal, but a company is starting to prototype bio-degradable strapping and we will use that when it becomes available. Update 2023 - we tried the bio-banding and found it was not strong enough yet.

This Photo is from ~2010 at an older Warehouse located in Stockport. There were problems in the winter with frozen pipes.

First Warehouse. Photo Circa 2003. Here the lift was tempermental.

We have written a short piece on UPS Failure rates over time. 

UPS Failure Modes over time

Some interesting companies we have supplied recently

Schuh Livingston
ROLLS-ROYCE DGS Winsford
European RAID Arrays Ltd
Orange Aero
Atomki Nuclear Research institute Hungary
Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems
Sidlocks Guernsey
Neocom Bangalore India
PingIT DK
Downing College Cambridge
Tech Dynamic Singapore
Hamworthy Barracks (SBS)
Bank of Taiwan
Ralph Lauren
Gordon Ramsey 1890

Map of delivery locations over a 24 month period, UK postcodes shown only.
It was proving too hard to make map for worldwide orders.

Selection of stock Q3 2025

CHARITY

We started making yearly charitable donations in 2008. We initially donated to just a few charities, but the list has grown as staff members put forward worthy causes, or charities that have helped them through the years. I hope this helps people who are doing good to keep on going.

The total donations made as of 2025 is £16,671.75 

2016 Charitable Donations to Oxfam / MSF / Phab club / Parkrun / DEC / Wikipedia / William Wates trust

2017 Charitable Donations totalling £1650 to Oxfam / MSF / Phab club / Parkrun / DEC / Wikipedia / William Wates trust / RNLI / Childrenwithcancer.org.uk

2018 Donations £1410 In order of donation size MSF / Oxfam / DEC Indonesia earthquake appeal / Children with Cancer Trust / William Wates Foundation / Phab club / Mountain Rescue / APM reporting / Wikipedia / FullFact-UK

2019-2020 Donations totalling £2300
£350 Oxfam / £350 MSF / £200 William Wates / £200 Children with Cancer / £200 Phab Club / £200 Brain tumour charity / £100 RNLI / £100 Poppy Appeal / £100 Mencap / £100 Warrington Wolves foundation / £100 Alder Hey Hospital / £100 Stroke.org / £50 Children in need / £50 Keep Britain Tidy

2023 Donation total £1004
£300 MSF / £100 Parkrun / £60 Kids with cancer / £60 Mountain rescue / £70 Keep Britain Tidy / £60 Woodland Trust / £60 Alder Hey / £60 Creating Adventures / £60 Warrington Wolves foundation / £60 McMillan Nurses / £60 Room at the inn / £60 Altzheimers (rounded up)

2025 Donation total £2064.75
Poppy Appeal / MSF / MAP / Parkrun / Atherton & Leigh Swimming club / Mountain Rescue / Keep Britain Tidy / Creating Adventures / Woodland Trust / Warrington Wolves foundation / William Wates Trust.