Anyone looked at Yealink DaaS - Device as a Service
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And at the end of this rental program you don't even own the phone.
"Phone rentals are not a rent to own program"
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So this is a "Rent forever" program. Which okay. . . but there had better be some great support for these phones when they die.
Because at this price I'd be better off just outright purchasing the phones as required and saving the added cost.
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@DustinB3403 said in Anyone looked at Yealink DaaS - Device as a Service:
So this is a "Rent forever" program. Which okay. . . but there had better be some great support for these phones when they die.
Because at this price I'd be better off just outright purchasing the phones as required and saving the added cost.
I completely agree - and I did ask above if this was a rent forever, or rent to own type of thing (though not in those words).
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bwhahah
And you are forced to pay for return shipping at the end of your contract. . .
"and Customer is responsible for all costs related to packing and shipment of the phones to Sangoma’s return center at the end of the rental period."
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@DustinB3403 said in Anyone looked at Yealink DaaS - Device as a Service:
bwhahah
And you are forced to pay for return shipping at the end of your contract. . .
"and Customer is responsible for all costs related to packing and shipment of the phones to Sangoma’s return center at the end of the rental period."
totally normal!
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@Dashrender said in Anyone looked at Yealink DaaS - Device as a Service:
@DustinB3403 said in Anyone looked at Yealink DaaS - Device as a Service:
bwhahah
And you are forced to pay for return shipping at the end of your contract. . .
"and Customer is responsible for all costs related to packing and shipment of the phones to Sangoma’s return center at the end of the rental period."
totally normal!
Sure, but it isn't a normal cost you'd see if you just bought phones and wanted to replace them a year or 3 later.
You'd either sell them outright or dump them in a dumpster.
Therefor the cost of the phones are going up even more!
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@Dashrender so even if it only cost $10-15 one time to ship all of these back, that doesn't include the soft cost of packaging the phones up, scheduling a pick up, having insurance on the shipment etc etc.
So the $207 on top might be more like $222 on top of Amazon pricing per phone.
That's a lot of money even for just a handful of phones.
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@DustinB3403 said in Anyone looked at Yealink DaaS - Device as a Service:
@Dashrender so even if it only cost $10-15 one time to ship all of these back, that doesn't include the soft cost of packaging the phones up, scheduling a pick up, having insurance on the shipment etc etc.
So the $207 on top might be more like $222 on top of Amazon pricing per phone.
That's a lot of money even for just a handful of phones.
Dude - I'm sold on the idea that this is a totally DUMB idea to get roped into. That said - some people are just so cash poor that they will opt for renting the phones anyway.
assuming you have the upfront cash, or can get a loan - outright buying all the phones, and a few extra to leave on the shelf will likely save you a significant amount of cash in the long run.
One thing you haven't taken into consideration though - is the time value of money. Putting yourself out there for purchase price up front - what will you not be able to buy - what investment will you not be able to take advantage of if you don't have this cash ready to go? Just something to consider.
For something like 5-10 phones, this is likely not that huge of a thing, though Scott might still argue that $2250 isn't a small amount to many SMBs, I kinda think anything less than 10K is pretty much a non issue for an SMB, but perhaps I'm crazy.
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One thing you haven't taken into consideration though - is the time value of money.
But I have. It takes moments to do the math that this is a bad idea. In any case we're discussing a business who is installing a new phone e system and phones.
So the business has the money, but would it be better to expense with however many thousands upfront? At least in my business they would opt to make the spend today, and then they'd write it off over the usable life of the equipment.
With that, yes it's still a capital expense. And hopefully that expense was planned for and already budgeted.
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@DustinB3403 said in Anyone looked at Yealink DaaS - Device as a Service:
One thing you haven't taken into consideration though - is the time value of money.
But I have. It takes moments to do the math that this is a bad idea. In any case we're discussing a business who is installing a new phone e system and phones.
So the business has the money, but would it be better to expense with however many thousands upfront? At least in my business they would opt to make the spend today, and then they'd write it off over the usable life of the equipment.
With that, yes it's still a capital expense. And hopefully that expense was planned for and already budgeted.
That had been the typical situation here until recently. Much to my utter amazement we've leased two pretty major pieces of gear - CT machine and our entire printer fleet. I know in the case of printers, we'll be saving money over what we were paying our previous provider, the purchase option might have saved us a small amount, but we would have to have taken out a loan, and the interest would have made the end spend nearly the same.
