With 2020 being an unprecedented and extraordinary year on so many levels. Euro Auctions still hosted its full calendar of sales, and in the early stages of the COVID pandemic provided sellers with a financial lifeline, helping to sell equipment, putting cash back into their businesses.With 2020 being the most extraordinary year, and a year of extreme sadness for many, Euro Auctions made an early decision to try and find a way to continue to operate, providing vendors with a platform on which to sell their equipment and machinery, providing them with funds with which to 'shore-up' their business as the world began to shut down. Covid struck, and on the 27th March, with over 5,500 lots of construction machinery, agricultural equipment, and industrial plant on-site at Leeds and committed to the auction, and ready for sale, Euro Auctions had many difficult choices to make. With the UK shutting down, and with expectant consignors waiting for a sale, Euro Auctions had the choice of either re-patriating machinery 'un-sold' back to sellers, leaving the lots for sale at the Leeds site for an indefinite period, or making the sale work within the government guidelines for the new Corona Virus.
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