Looking at buying a new cluster of cubicles? New office cubicals can put a damper on your bottom line. One other thing, is that it could very well be a length of time before you have your cubicles set in place. The average price of a garden-variety eight foot cubicle workstation could be priced from $2,200.00 and over seven thousand dollars per cube. If your buy cubicles from major manufacturers like Global, Herman Miller and Allsteel, could be 4-6 weeks to be installed after the order is placed.
Then, what should one look for as an alternative? Think about it! Used or remanufactured workstations! Since the slowdown in the market conditions, an office furniture buyer could often find a good variety of used cubicle product. When considering to select a pre-owned workstation is most often a rational option, financially speaking, and can be easy on the environment as well! Pre-owned cubes frequently range between two-hundred and one thousand dollars per cube.
Another advantage in looking at the lightly used cubical include the amount of time from order to installation and availability. Depending on where they're located at, used cubicles are frequently "knocked down" in a storage facility somewhere (they're often accounted for by used cubical sellers or installation companies). For this scenerio, you quite possibly get your cubicles in under a week. Other times, they are still standing in an office nearby.
The greatest advantage to the pre-owned cubicle is that they're at a lower price point than new cubicals - sometimes as low as $.10 on the dollar.
However, one of the drawbacks when considering buying used cubicles are the unavailability of choices, if they were kept in good condition, and the fact that they could not be exactly what would fit your office. Generally, you take the product as it is. You also will not receive a manufacturer's warranty in the case that something doesn't work properly. Pre owned workstations are usually purchased in an as-is condition (and most of the time "where-is") and do not come with a warranty from the manufacturer.