Looking at buying a new set of office cubicles? New office cubicles could put a damper on your pocketbook. In addition might take a good amount of time before you have them set in place. The average price of a common eight foot office workstation might cost from two thousand and and as high as $6k per cube. If your buy cubicles from the dealerships such as Haworth, Herman Miller and Allsteel, can range from a month and a half to get installed once they've been ordered.
Okay, what might you try as an alternative? Yep! Used or refurbished workstations! Since the slowdown in the economic conditions, the buyer could often find a large selection for of used cubicle product. When making the choice to select a pre-owned workstation is as a rule a wise decision, financially speaking, and could be good on the environment also! Used workstations frequently cost between two-hundred and about a thousand dollars per workstation.
Benefits of choosing the pre owned cubicle also 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 (they're often inventoried by used cubicle sellers or installation companies). In this case, you might be able to get them in less than a week. Other times, the workstations are still installed in an office complex nearby.
The biggest opportunity to the used cubicle is that they are at a lower price point than new cubicles - often as low as ten cents on the dollar.
But, some of the drawbacks when considering buying used cubicles are the unavailability of choices, how well they were maintained, and the fact that they might not be exactly what you're looking for. Generally, you take it as a compromise. Another thing to think about is that you also won't get a warranty from the original manufacturer in the case that something goes wrong. Used cubicles are usually purchased in an as-is condition (and sometimes "where-is") and don't come with a warranty from the manufacturer.