Maintaining buyers register

Are you a merchant of used items, or items from leftover lots? If so, you may need to keep track of what items you purchase. And you must notify the municipality that you are a trader.

Keeping a purchasing register is mandatory. In Heerlen, it is also the mandatory that merchants keep a sales register in the Digital Buyers Register.

Approach

Get started with your buyers' registry:

  • Contact the municipality
  • In any case, you pass on:
    • your valid ID
    • A recent certificate of registration in the Chamber of Commerce Trade Register
    • which goods you want to buy up and resell
    • from when you want to sell the goods

Maintaining your buyers' register:

  • You register:
    • a unique serial number for each commodity purchased
    • the date of transfer
    • a description of the property
    • the make, type and serial number. In the absence of unique characteristics, such as jewelry, you are required to include a clear color photograph of the good in the record
    • The purchase or sale price and other conditions of transfer
    • the name and address of the seller or buyer
    • country of origin, type and number of the seller's legally valid identification document
  • You check whether the goods are registered as stolen on stopheling.com
  • You may sell the purchased goods after 5 days, during which time you must leave the goods in the condition as purchased (e.g. do not repaint, remelt or disassemble) 

Cost

Using the digital buyers register is free of charge.

Description

Do you deal in used items or leftover items? If so, you may have to report it to the municipality. It does not matter whether trading is your profession, or whether you trade regularly in your spare time.

You must write down all the used items you purchase in a list. We call this registering. You must also write down who you buy the items from. This makes it easier for the police to find out if the items are stolen and who offered them.

The following merchants must register with the municipality and register used items:

  • buyers (think pawn shops, thrift stores)
  • dealers in antiques and curiosities
  • metal traders
  • jewelers
  • art dealers
  • dealers in (parts of) cars, motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles
  • dealers in telephones, tablets, computers and audio, film and video equipment

The municipality and police want to combat receiving stolen goods as well as crimes that have a high impact on the victims, such as burglaries and street robberies.

Learn more

Information at Stopheling.com

Fighting information on fencing

Information about the Digital Buyers Registry (DOR)

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