Certified used cnc lathes

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Last Saturday, I attended a party at my friend’s house. There were twelve families invited by the host. So with the husbands, wives and children it was quite a commotion. Six of the men were in the IT line of work, two were accountants, one was a professor in a university, one was a doctor, one was in the fast food business and two were in the machining business. The two accountants who both worked in the same office had purchased automobiles within a week of each other and needless to say they were both talking about it and that’s where I came up with the idea for this post. They had both purchased certified used cars. One had bought a certified used Lexus and the other had bought a certified used Honda. And I thought to myself, why don’t we have certified used cnc lathes? That seems like a great idea!

You know, not every used cnc lathe has had twenty years of life behind it. Many used cnc lathes have simply one or two years logged on them and then the machine shop decides to get rid of them for various reasons. May be they bought a new cnc lathe because they needed the additional capacity for a contract that just got finished and they don’t need the extra equipment any more. May be they bought this new cnc lathe and now they need a bigger one with a sub spindle may be and they need to trade this in to upgrade. May be they decided to outsource the work that this formerly new but now used cnc lathe was putting out and so on. There could be a million reasons why they want to sell it. And some machine shop owners that are leary of buying anything used may have their fears subsided, if the original manufacturer offers them a certified used cnc lathe as an option, similar to certified pre-owned cars.

When you take out the fear from the customer, he becomes more apt to buy what you are selling. For some reason that I cannot put my fingers on, the certified used cnc lathe market does not exist. Especially with the price of new cnc lathes nowadays, machine tool distributors could really capture a piece of the used cnc lathe market by offering a certification process. And that will not, in my opinion, dampen their new machine tool sales, just like the new car market has not been affected by the certified pre-owned car sales. This does give some food for thought I would presume.