Here are 4 insider-secrets to the copier world. Four ways to save significant amounts of money by the end of the week. Your local dealerships do not want you to know what is about to be exposed to you.
1) Upgrade Your Copier Today. Even if you signed a 60 months lease, you can normally upgrade it around 36 months - giving you a new copier, with the newer technology and a lower cost per copy, for the exact same price you are paying now - and maybe even a bit less. You can do the same thing on a 36 month lease at around 27 months. Reps do this all the time for companies.
You can fill out what is called a "Copier Pre-Quote" survey which tells your local reps what you want in your next machine (without having to spend hours in initial meetings with reps). It is like a Request-for-Proposal. You tell them the features you want and they email you back a quote. It tells them that you are all about price and will immediately knock about 20-30% off of the prices. (For the average copier of $8000, that's a $2000 savings!)
Once you have some numbers in hand, then you should ask the reps to help you upgrade, trade-in or ship back your old copier, which they will be more than happy to do.
2) Shop Your CPC. Don't estimate the power of pennies! That is, find out what your current cost per copy is. Don't look at your original contract because most dealerships will raise the cpc each year. So if you are the average small business office which prints about 10,000 black & white copies, prints and faxes each month at about a penny a copy, then you'll be spending $100 a month on your service agreement. If you throw 1000 color copies into the mix at $0.08 a print, then that's another $80/month.
Now, you need to understand that copier dealerships give most of the profits of selling the machine to you, to the copier rep. They don't make money on the box, neither does HP or Dell or Lexmark. They make money on toner! So believe me, they want to keep/winning your business!
With this in mind, now go ask another dealership in your city (which services your brand of copier) what their rates would be if you switched to them (because the lease contract for the copier is NOT tied to the service contract usually, so you can cancel the service contract at any time). Let the reps compete with each other to drop that cpc as low as it will go, and get the sales/service managers involved because they know that they make money on cpc's.
If you just get them to drop the cpc down 20%, then that would be $0.008 (80% of a penny), per B&W copy and $0.06 for a color copy - bringing your monthly total from $180 down to $140! (Over the year, that's a $360 savings.)
3) Now Get Them To Lock-It In. Here's the power-punch. Get them to LOCK-IN the cpc for as long as you have the copier to seal the deal.
All prices go up - health care, education, gas - and even your copier toner. You can ask the rep to lock-in your CPC price for the length of the lease and it will save you LOTS of money. Each year, with normal inflation, your copier dealership will raise their prices anywhere from 10-30%, and with gas prices soaring, maybe even more.
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