Pre-purchase risk review for industrial procurement
CT reviews the listing before you approve the purchase.
Built for maintenance and procurement teams. Paste an industrial eBay listing, get a risk verdict in seconds, and generate a Supplier Exception Record your manager and auditor can sign off on — before money is spent.
CT reviews the listing, not the physical part. · Pre-purchase risk review only. · Not part authentication.
Supplier Exception Record — Example
⛔ NOT READY FOR APPROVAL
Siemens 6ES7315-2EH14-0AB0 · $1,895
⚠ Price 4.6× above observed market median (~$1,485 overpay risk)
⚠ Listing image found on another listing — verify authenticity
⚠ +4 additional signals in full record
CT Case ID
CT-20260610-B380F9
✅ Approve
❌ Reject
🔍 Evidence
CT reviews the listing, not the physical part. Pre-purchase risk review. Not part authentication.
Industrial parts regularly reviewed by CT teams
Siemens SIMATIC
Allen-Bradley
Fanuc CNC
Yaskawa
Mitsubishi
Omron
Schneider Electric
Compliance evidence — what a Supplier Exception Record documents
ISO 9001:2015 Clause 8.4
Control of externally provided products. CT helps document pre-purchase review evidence that may support your ISO 9001 §8.4 supplier-control process when secondary-market parts enter your system.
NIS2 Article 21 — Supply Chain
OT components from unauthorized sources are an undocumented supply chain risk. The Supplier Exception Record helps document the evidence trail that may support NIS2 supply-chain governance processes.
PO · Card · Reimbursement
No CT Case ID — no documented approval. The CT Case ID attaches to the purchase order or reimbursement form as the pre-purchase control record.
CT reviews listing-level risk only. CT does not physically inspect, authenticate, certify, insure or guarantee the part.
Checking a listing — the BUY / VERIFY / BLOCK verdict — is free. When the purchase matters, you generate a documented record for your PO, your finance team, or a dispute. One per decision, no subscription required.
Pick your moment: already paid on the card and need finance to sign off? Start with the Reimbursement Record. Still deciding? The Decision Record (€9.99) unlocks the full risk reasoning. Documenting for quality or audit? The Supplier Exception Record (€29) is the formal control document.
ALREADY BOUGHT IT?
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Reimbursement Record
You paid on the company card under pressure — now finance wants justification before you get your money back. CT generates the documented record they'll ask for: the listing review, the risk signals, the reasoning — attached to your expense report.
Before approval — for teams, quality and compliance. The full risk reasoning, seller evidence, named manager approval trail and an audit-ready PDF you can attach to the purchase order, generated before money is spent.
Complete risk breakdown with methodology
Named manager approval trail + timestamp
Audit-ready PDF for your PO file
Public verification URL · ISO 9001 §8.4 & NIS2 anchoring
€29 · per record · or unlock the full Decision Record reasoning for €9.99
Part arrived wrong, dead, or suspect? A complete evidence file — image cross-listing analysis, model-mismatch detection and the full signal history — for a supplier dispute or chargeback.
Doing this every week? Move from per-record to monitoring.
Teams that review secondary-market listings continuously can put critical part numbers under weekly monitoring instead of checking one listing at a time. Optional — most buyers start with a single record.
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Monitor your critical parts
Send us your top 20 part numbers. CT monitors secondary-market listings weekly and delivers a CT Procurement Intelligence Report with risk signals, price anomalies, and a CT Savings Score for management.
CT creates a documented approval trail before money is spent.
01 ——
Listing submitted
Engineer pastes eBay URL via web, Chrome extension, or submit-for-approval form.
02 ——
CT scans listing
Price vs. market, seller signals, image cross-reference, MPN consistency — all checked in seconds.
03 ——
Record generated
A CT Case ID is generated. Verdict, signals, and timestamp are logged into the Supplier Exception Record. Manager receives an approval request.
04
Decision documented
Manager approves, rejects, or requests seller evidence. Every action is logged. Audit trail complete.
CT Savings Score
The metric your CFO understands.
CT tracks total value reviewed, risk-exposed listings filtered, and estimated avoidable spend — every month.
$93,631
Marketplace value reviewed
$52,211
Risk-exposed spend filtered
$10,442
Estimated avoidable risk
CT Intelligence — 1 month
€199/month · conservative 20% exposure model
Estimated ROI
52x
Based on CT-observed listing checks. Savings estimate = 20% of risk-exposed listing value (conservative model).
CT checks listings, not physical parts. Estimated savings are not guaranteed.
From public industrial forums
Engineers describe the pain — in their own words.
These are public comments from PLCtalk.net, an industrial automation forum. They are not customer testimonials or endorsements of CT Ultramax.
"eBay is our last resort. It's just so easy to get scammed. Sometimes when you're down, you grab the part from more than one seller at the same time and hope one of them works."
joseph_e2 · PLCtalk.net — public forum comment
"Typically this goes into a site manager's credit card. Procurement will never even be aware of it. I've seen UPS's and even mass flowmeters being bought on credit cards."
cardosocea · PLCtalk.net — public forum comment
"Most of those listings are Chinese sellers selling either counterfeit or remanufactured parts as new. When I'm trying to find actual surplus I take good care not to buy from those types."
diat150 · PLCtalk.net — public forum comment
These comments reflect real experiences shared publicly on PLCtalk.net.
They are reproduced here to illustrate the procurement pain CT was built to address —
not as endorsements or customer testimonials.
Subscriptions
Most buyers pay per record. Subscriptions are for teams.
You never need a subscription to generate a record — pay €29 when you need one. These plans are for engineers and teams who review listings often enough that a monthly plan is cheaper.
Free
€0
forever
For individual engineers checking listings occasionally.