Hidden Costs of PC Disposal,
or in-house PC
retirement!
According to a recent report by Gartner
Research, in-house disposal “presents unique
challenges and potential costs that enterprises
seldom consider.” When a
company tries to manage its own in-house
retirement, the costs can exceed $400 per
computer according to PC Disposal: one of the
nations largest web-based disposal outfits.
Hidden costs:
In-house disposal management costs
• Administrative (inventory, forms,
accounting, security, etc.)
• Backing up and sanitizing
or destruction of hard drives
• Storage
or warehousing costs until computers are removed
• Packing, shipping,
and transportation
• Disposal fees
(Variable from state to state)
• Employee or labor costs
In-house employee sale and/or
charitable donation costs
• "Hosting Sale" (programming, pricing,
eCommerce development, asking questions, hosting
fees, marketing fees, etc.)
• Finding charitable organizations that will
accept your PCs
• Reloading operating systems
• Testing and configuring PCs
• Processing payments
• Technical support if included
• Preparing transfer documents &
licenses
If you’re planning on
offsetting those costs by reselling the old equipment,
time is against you. It is
estimated that stored IT equipment loses 6% to
10% of its value each month.
Is a computer junkyard
growing in your company?
We shield your
company from
liability
From
privacy issues
to the EPA, when
a computer
leaves your
company it can
become a serious
risk for your
business. Here’s
how we insulate
you and your
company from
these risks.
- We take
title to
your
equipment.
That is,
your
equipment
becomes our
equipment
and it’s no
longer your
responsibility.
- Hard
drives are
sanitized or
destroyed.
- Asset
tags are
removed that
may identify
the original
equipment’s
owner.
-
Worthless
computer
equipment is
disposed of
in
accordance
with all
Federal and
State
environmental
laws.
- You’ll
receive a
“Certificate
of Disposal”
providing
evidence of
services
performed.
We can save your
company a bundle
Did you
know that
implementing an
in-house
computer
disposal program
can cost more
than $400 per
computer?
We can properly
dispose of your
computer
hardware for a
fraction of what
it would cost to
do it yourself.
The entire
process will be
effortless to
you
You
already have
enough work to
do. Do you
really want to
spend your time
erasing hard
drives and
upgrading
outdated
systems? Why
worry about risk
management,
software
licenses and
environmental
compliance? We
will pickup your
equipment,
provide the
requested
services and
send you a
detailed record
of what was
accomplished.
It’s that easy.
| "Obsolete IT equipment is a growing problem in the U.S. Industry analysts at IDC estimate that most corporations store older computer equipment for up to three years at a cost of about $360 per machine. And then they may pay an additional $218 for its eventual disposal. In 2002, the number of obsolete PCs outnumbered the number of new PCs entering the market by about 3.4 million. According to the National Safety Council, more than 315 million computers will have to be recycled or disposed of by next year." Source From
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/news/article.php/3286231 |
|
Sources
6 June 1997
Personal
Computing (PC)
Strategic
Analysis Report
C. Goodhue, T.
Berg (Section
15.0)
http://www.itea.ntnu.no/pcavtaler/gg/hardwaremanagement.html
"The real cost
of in-house PC
retirement"
http://pcdisposal.com/truecosts.htm
|
|
|
|
|
