OEM new sales VS refurbished/2nd hand/used sales

@AC68 LOL, yes the universal ignorance of 2nd hand devices is equally wide spread!  A recent comment stated that new A4 devices are now a 12 week wait here in the US.  Not sure what they are waiting for, I would by every decent A4 I could get my hands on right now.

Unfortunately right now the used market doesn't seem great.  I assume because of the inability to get new equipment, other dealers are having to offer some used options and inventory from wholesalers is low and expensive.

Canon has a 2nd hand inventory list they send weekly for dealers to purchase.  The list used to always have about 60-80 machines on the list.  The past couple weeks it's dwindled down to less than 20.

With the backorders, I think a lot of dealers are picking these up to offer for sale or as loaner machines until orders are released.

Even before the pandemic we were dong a healthy pre-owned business both wholesale and retail.  May be doing a lot more of it moving forward if equipment doesn't start showing up.  Leading with pre-owned right now in many situations where just a few months ago I would have never even brought up pre-owned to the customer.

same here my friend.  In man cases we are now buying the devices off lease to make sure we have a decent supply.  Wonder if this is happening across the country for lease returns also.