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Sunday, 16 February 2014

Many Providers Are Buying Used Optometry Equipment

By Eliza Mendoza


Acquiring used optometry equipment can be compared to driving up a winding and precarious mountain road. It can be considered nice if you are precise, but it can be quite troublesome if you are not very careful. Here you will get advice on how to acquire pre-owned ophthalmic tools so as to get the benefit of large savings and not regret a thing.

The great news for buyers of previously owned equipment is that the dubious dealers who have sprung up with the expansion of the Internet have been mostly weeded out in the last few years. Leaving it open mostly to experienced and reliable dealers who make use of the Internet as only one of several tools to satisfy customers, provide information and get repeat business. Now there are approximately six to ten big dealers in the country who have monitored the business, to stop unethical dealers.

The providers have also created an informal system of reliable and experienced dealers who will quite often team up to assist a customer to find a specific piece of equipment that they might require. Everyone is looking at their bottom line and trying to maximize their profits. Practices are searching for second hand products that have the same use as if they were buying it new.

Businesses that buy the most durable, best quality optical and mechanical pre- owned tools can make a saving of about twenty or thirty percent especially when you look at the prices of new tools. However, you shouldn't purchase such computerized equipment because technology is always changing and it will become antiquated quite quickly. It would be like procuring an old computer; people do not do this.

Satellite Businesses that are being opened and then equipped is a very big part of why there is a large demand for second hand ophthalmic utensils. Most companies would choose to help keep their initial charges down until it can be proven that there is a demand for them. Getting pre- owned tools can be a wonderful way to keep those first costs low.

A combination of pre- owned and newly purchased tools is what they will more than likely get simply because the pieces they might wish to obtain are probably not available. The leading sources of tools that are previously used are businesses that have foreclosed, practices that are retiring and trading in of tools. Business has been very good lately for these dealers because the necessity of these tools is exceeded by the most recent supply.

Most of the machines are evolving technologically which has produced a very large demand for tools like the optical coherence tomography (OCT) machine. Many practices assume that they should have the most recent OCT equipment. And there are so many companies that would be happy to take their old OCT tool that has been a trade-in.

Even though OCT is a very quick selling part of the used optometry equipment business, there is also a great demand for the traditional, durable products with very long life cycles. A lot of these tools can be made use of for years without being made obsolete. Because they are durable, they will hold their value longer, which makes them less of a bargain than the high-tech tools.




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