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If you are a corporate IT person and have some older laptops that you are planning on phasing out, your accounting department can tell you their book value but we can help you determine their market value.
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John Gantz, Senior VP at IDC said about dealing with old PC equipment...
"Consider the five common methods of getting rid of a PC:
1. Throwing it away.
2. Selling it to a used equipment dealer.
3. Selling it to an employee.
4. Donating it to charity and
5. Giving it to another employee.
Guess which costs the most? No, it's not throwing it away. It's giving it to another employee!
You might get $200 for a PC from a used equipment broker, but it can cost $400 to give the PC to another employee. Removing old stuff from the first employee, testing and preparing the system for the new employee and physically carting the PC around make up half the cost. Reinstalling software and customizing the system for the new user take up the other half. You might think a usable PC for $400 is a good deal, but chances are it will need an upgrade to run today's applications and will generate a bunch of help desk calls from its new location. With the average cost of a PC (not counting capital costs) $4,500 per year, an old $400 computer can cost you a lot more than a new $3,000 one over a three-year life cycle.
Giving a computer to a charity is almost as expensive. Yes, you get a tax write-off but you generally have to clean and prepare the system, assign a price (that the IRS will accept) and do some record-keeping. Think of a cost more than $300 per PC.
Selling the PC to an employee is a little better deal, but the preparation costs make it more expensive than simply throwing the system away. Even selling a system to a used equipment broker generally costs more than you get for the system by at least $100.
Now that the costs of disposing old PCs are up to between 3% and 5% of a PCs total life-cycle cost, companies have begun to realize that paying attention to end-of-life asset management can pay off.
The IDC research yields a few strategies for minimizing disposal costs. Leases are available that let you upgrade to the latest technology after 24 months without paying extra. A program to sell old PCs to used equipment dealers can result in some decent cost recovery. Manufacturer trade-in programs are another way to recover some of the disposal costs.
Perhaps the most important message here is that most companies don't really have a good handle on PC burial costs, and most don't have a well-thought-out strategy to deal with obsolete PCs.
Although most companies would like to extend the lives of their PCs, that may not always be cost-effective in the long run. Better may be a program for steady replacement that recognizes there is a cost for keeping equipment that is technologically, if not physically, obsolete.
When and how to get rid of PCs is worth some serious thought. You can't just toss them into the dumpster. That's almost as costly as giving them away."
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