CHG_CANON wrote:
No. No rational company is going to spend the money, the time, and retain the human resources to test equipment -- that was built to spec to last years -- and then sell this value-added (retested) equipment at a lower cost than new.
Let's test your theory and your business acumen. Let's just say on Monday I send you the following customer returns:
3 x D780
4 x D5600
2 x Z DX NIKKOR 18-140mm f/3.5-6.3 VR
1 x AF-S NIKKOR 500mm F/5.6E Pf ED VR
How long will it take you, an individual, to do your "thorough" testing? A day? A week? A month? Forever? Do you even have all the equipment onsite to perform your imaginary "thorough" testing? Beyond the equipment, do you have the procedures? If you're this level of 1-man all-equipment expert, how much are you paid? Can you do all this value-added work at a cost lower than selling the same equipment new?
Take your big brain and equipment and divide over multiple employees, how big is your staff? Are they full-time, just waiting for an unknown quantity of equipment, in unknown model distributions, at unknown times? Is your small army of staff now the same size or bigger than the automated manufacturing at the original overseas plant?
No. No rational company is going to spend the mone... (
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One more thing. The labor cost of the technician is about 4 times of what he makes. So go figure how much an hour of the tech is worth.