Finding equipment on Haubot

Most buyers arrive with a need that is half-specified — "a wheel loader, around 3 tonnes, somewhere we can actually ship from". This guide is about turning that into a shortlist you can act on.

Start with the category, not the keyword

Haubot is multi-vertical, and the filters change with the category. A drilling rig and a forklift do not share a filter set, and the platform doesn't pretend they do. Picking the category first — Construction & Heavy Equipment, Transport & Logistics, Marine, Aviation, Energy, Agriculture, and so on — gives you the filters that actually matter for that equipment.

Keyword search still works, and it's the fastest route if you know the brand and model. But for an open-ended search, the category page with its parameter filters will get you further.

Filters that matter

Within a category you'll typically have:

• Type — For sale, Rent, Auction, or Wanted. More on these below.
• Brand and model — narrow to a manufacturer or a specific model line.
• Condition — New, Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor.
• Year — manufacturing-year range.
• Price range — in your selected currency.
• Country / region — where the equipment physically is.
• Category-specific parameters — hours, mileage, capacity, power, dimensions and so on, depending on the equipment type.

Region and currency are not cosmetic. Prices are shown in your selected currency with the conversion handled for you, and the country filter is the difference between a shortlist you can realistically ship from and one you can't.

The four listing types

The Type filter is worth understanding before you sort a single result:

• For sale — a straightforward sale listing. You contact the seller, agree terms, and complete the transaction.
• Rent — equipment offered for hire rather than purchase.
• Auction — a binding bidding process. Auctions run in two modes, Seller Managed and Haubot Managed, and the mechanics are covered in the Auctions section. If you've never bid on Haubot, read that section before you place a bid — bids are binding.
• Wanted — a buyer-posted request describing equipment they're looking for. If you're a seller, these are leads; if you're a buyer, you can post your own.

Reading a listing card

Each result card carries the essentials: a representative photo, the brand and model, condition, year, the price (or current bid for auctions), and the seller. The card is the trailer, not the film — open the listing for the full parameter set, the photo and video gallery, the location, and the document vault.

A listing badge tells you the type at a glance. For auctions, the card also shows the current price and, where applicable, a countdown.

Saved searches and alerts

When a search is close to what you want but the right unit isn't listed yet, save it. A saved search remembers the full filter set and can notify you — by email, in-app, or both — when new listings match.

Saved searches live in your dashboard under Saved, alongside your saved listings. You can edit a saved search's name and notification frequency, pause it, or delete it. For equipment that turns over slowly, a saved search with weekly alerts is usually more useful than checking the marketplace by hand.

Sorting a shortlist

Once the filters are doing their job, sorting decides what you look at first. Newest-first surfaces fresh listings; price-ascending or -descending is self-explanatory. For auctions, ending-soonest is the one that matters when you're actively bidding.

Where to go next

A shortlist is only as good as what you can verify about each unit. The next step for any serious candidate is the document vault: see Requesting document access for restricted files, and How buyers verify documents for confirming that what's disclosed is genuine.