eArborist was set up in 2004 as a platform for Arboriculture & Forestry professionals. The system has three portals.


The Marketplace allows independent users to list equipment for sale for a one-off fee, and dealers to purchase an annual subscription for unlimited advertising. A scraping tool takes away the hard work for the dealers allowing the backend team to pull in data from their websites. Daily emails are sent to subscribed users with advertising updates. SEO built up over the last 20 years means we appear well in search engines. Powerful filters in the app means buyers easily find the advertising.


The Recruitment area was a later addition to the site, but works in a similar way. Agencies/Large Businesses are able to purchase an annual subscription and independent businesses can place individual recruitment ads.


Directory. An on site directory provides businesses with the opportunity to list their details in appropriate categories and brings additional revenue


There is a powerful admin area to manage all of the above which integrates with Xero.


In its early days the site was the most advanced platform in the industry and was very popular, now we’ll admit we’ve lost a little of our enthusiasm! In recent years we haven’t appeared at the trade shows or done any paid advertising.


The successful new owner will need to breathe in new life and restore it to its former glory.


We have regular customers who have advertised with us over the last 20 years, testament to the fact that it works.


We plan to hand over the full working website, including:



We are looking for a quick sale with minimal fuss, so we've set a 99p start bid and a £3k reserve (this is really just to cover the time we'll need to invest in the handover).