Thinking about buying a new lot of office workstations? New office cubicles might put a damper on your wallet. Also, it might take a length of time before you see the cubes deliverd . The price of a standard eight by eight office workstation might be priced from $2k and over seven thousand dollars per station. Cubicles, if bought from the dealerships like Teknion, Herman Miller and KI, can range from four to six weeks to be delivered after the order is placed.
Okay, what should one look for as an different choice? Yep! Pre owned or refurbished cubes! With the downturn in the market conditions, you will often locate a good choice of used cubicle product. Making the decision to go with a pre-owned workstation is as a rule a rational option, financially speaking, and could be light on the environment also! Pre-owned cubes frequently cost from $200.00 and one thousand dollars per workstation.
Another advantage in looking at the pre-owned cubicle include the amount of time from order to installation and availability. Depending on the location, used cubicles are sometimes "knocked down" in a warehouse nearby (sometimes accounted for by used office furniture vendors or cubicle installation companies). For this scenerio, you quite possibly have your workstations in less than a week. Other times, the cubicles remain built in an office nearby.
The biggest advantage to the pre-owned cube is that they are priced much lower than new cubicles - often as little as ten cents on the dollar.
On the other side, one of the drawbacks when buying used cubicles are the limited selection, whether or not they were maintained, as well as the fact that they could not be precisely what you're looking for. Usually, you take the product as it is. Another thing to consider is that you also won't receive a manufacturer's warranty if anything does not work properly. Pre-owned workstations are almost always bought in an as-is condition (and oftentimes "where-is") and do not come with a warranty from the manufacturer.