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The salesman from the dell repair store has offered us a great deal that is just too good to pass up. He has two fairly new poweredge servers that he had to repossess from a company that had not made their payments on time. I think that the company had actually closed their doors prior to the dell repair salesman taking them away.

I asked him if I could discuss buying them with some of the other partners in the firm, before making a decision and he said that he would give me twenty four hours, and then he would find someone else to buy them. I called a very quick meeting in the conference room for all the partners, over lunch to discuss if we wanted to buy the poweredge servers or not.

It took the partners ten minutes to discuss the price, the need and the kind of servers we were talking about and we came to the decision that we could almost not afford to buy them. I think that we all knew that these were being offered at a very low price and even if we did not need them at this time, we would in the future and we would not find them this cheap then.

I have decided to start a new business selling used point of sale equipment to retailers. I had seen several different companies online that do just that and with their prices, I could still make a profit from buying my used point of sale equipment from them and then adding a bit for me.

I had seen several different sales reps that have tried to sell the new point of sale equipment and most of the retailers tell them that they can just not afford it right now. The economy does not warrant such things as new equipment that is very high priced. I may have to find out which of the items on the used pos equipment site sell the best and make sure that I have those on hand.

I am planning on making up flyers and getting them out to all the stores that will be within sixty miles of my new storefront. I hope that the used pos equipment store will take off and I will become the supplier of all the local retailers when they need cashier equipment. If not, I will just put my inventory on the auction sites, sell it off and then go back to working the old job at the newspaper like I used to do.

I had been looking forward to taking a very much needed three day weekend vacation for the first time in about two years. The company that I work for as a computer technician finally took the advice I had been giving them for the last two years and bought some new used poweredge servers. I knew that the ones I constantly had to fix were too small and old to keep up with the office but they always would just have me put a band aid of work into them, just to get them up and running.

I had pictures of used servers and the prices emailed to the big guys upstairs who would be the first ones to complain when the old servers would go down. I repeatedly did the emails right after we would go offline for a day, in hopes that they would just buy the used poweredge servers one day.

I think that all the stars must have been aligned the day that they gave me the okay to go ahead with the purchase of two much bigger used servers that would be able to handle the growing office and all the work they were expected to do. I knew that my weekends would not be spent fixing the old servers anymore.

I may want to change out my old used proliant servers for some that are refurbished that I found online. I may have to get a loan to do it, but I have seen signs that the servers are going to start giving us trouble. They have gone offline a couple of times already and the last two times were only a couple of days apart. I cannot afford to put new ones in or keep putting money into servers that will not last very long anyway.

I calculated the amount of money that we lost the few times that they did go down and it would have been enough to purchase these used hp servers that have been refurbished that I saw in the paper last week. After seeing the servers in the paper, I decided to look online too and then I saw the used proliant servers too. I knew that buying from a person in the paper was risky but the company that had the used proliant servers online was legit. In fact, they gave a guarantee with their servers and would service it also if anything would happen to it.

The total amount for the used proliant servers was about thirty five hundred and I did not have to borrow it, because I just put it on one of my credit cards.

The used cisco eight port switch that I bought from the guy on the street works beautifully. I think that brand new, it would have cost me about two thousand dollars, but I only paid two hundred. I am just hoping that it is not stolen. Since the guy who sold it to me was driving a cisco repair van, I am sure that his company is just trying to unload some extra inventory by offering it to people at low prices.

I am just glad that I was walking up the street this morning, or someone else might have gotten the good deal on the used cisco switch and not me. My office has been in need of a new one and they were all excited to see me walk in with this one. They of course, are also betting that the police may walk through the door at any minute and take it and me away for buying stolen goods.

Later that afternoon, the cisco repair man that sold me the used switch, came into my office to deliver a bill of sale for me to turn in. I then knew that the sale was legitimate and I would not be going to jail anytime soon.

Buyers of Cisco products will often come across the proposals for buying items that have undergone Cisco repair for some reasons or other. The resellers are there to sell the products to you. As the sale goes up they will have higher commissions for such sells. There are of course some vendors that try to deal out duplicate or counterfeit products in the guise of repaired items to the unsuspecting customers.

While the company has been trying to fight out such mischief by putting clauses in their contract and floating disclaimers on the web it may not be enough. Many people do never look into the clauses of the contract or at the disclaimers floated in the print or electronic media. It is therefore better for you to learn few basics of the used Cisco products that are marketed before you go for one of them.

The business model that Cisco follows varies from many others. In their model there is no such plan that allows repair of equipments that are not covered with their genuine warranty. So when you have some non-covered equipment and it fails, they will not be repaired by the Cisco team. Your only option there is to dispose them or throw them if they have become totally useless.

You have no such problems with the genuine used Cisco products. All of them are covered by warranty period of minimum 90 days and anything that gets bad during the period shall be repaired by the Company technicians.

The pseries servers that were just installed into our office have not been working the way they are supposed to. Some genius bought them off of one of those auction sites. I guess that they thought they were saving us money by buying them used. They did not bother to see if they had been refurbished and there was no guarantee with them either.

I bought a used ibm one time from an auction site but I also got a one year guarantee with it. I have never had any problems with it, except for the virus that I had to pay to have taken off. The virus came when I opened an affected email from a friend.

Now the pseries servers that we got are a different story all together. Only one of them has been working at a time. If one is up, the other is down and vice versa. I really think that we should just trash them and start with new ones. Everyone else thinks that we should hire someone to fix them. I asked if they even know how much that would cost. What if something else goes wrong with the crap we bought by trying to save money. If a company does not guarantee their products, you should know that something is up.

My sister bought a used dell from a co worker of hers and it died in about three months. The warranty is of course expired and she is really mad that she bought a piece of junk. I told her before she bought it, that she should shop around and compare prices of used dells online to what she was going to pay for the one from her co worker.

She did not do that and later found out that she paid double of what she could have paid for refurbished used poweredge servers from a company online that sells them at a great price. I had bought my used dell from that company and had been very happy with my computer. She just thought that since this friend of hers was such a nice person, that she was giving her a great deal.

I asked her if she would like to check out the website now, and she agreed to it. When she saw the prices of the used poweredge servers, she wanted to cry. I went ahead and bought her a replacement used dell for the one she had paid too much for.

She thanked me and her new computer has been fine for about a year now. She says that she will listen to my advice from now on, but I do not believe that.