Are Copier Dealers in Sarasota Helpful or Expensive?

Some businesses love to only buy or lease copiers from copier dealers, because they are fed marketing from those dealers.  At the same time, hiring Independent copier dealers can be good or bad.

Advantages vs Disadvantages of choosing a copier dealer

Advantage:  The printer dealer has first access to the latest firmware for your copiers.
Disadvantage:  Usually, the latest copier firmware has bugs(because they are not tested in your environment), which cause more harm than good. Staying a tiny bit behind usually helps.

Advantage: You get discounts when you buy large amounts of copier printers, so you should pass the savings onto the customer.
Disadvantage:  Dealers are in the business of making money, because they must pay for the dealership status.

Advantage: Copier dealers get access to the newest model of printer copiers.
Disadvantage:  This is a big one.  The latest copier models(especially those in the first release party), have not been tested in a real business environment.  The customers of the newest models become test guinea pigs for the copier company. Furthermore,  copy machine repair is slowed by the lack of repair information

Advantage:  You get to put “copier dealer” on your business card or website.
Disadvantage:  We don’t get that pretty trophy on our website.

Advantages:  Copier dealers factory trained technicians.  They make take an online class once or twice.
Disadvantages:  Independent copier dealers usually have owners who are technicians by trade, and can easily train/update training at will.

Advantage:  They get the best copier leasing rates through the leasing companies.
Disadvantage:  Untrue.  Leasing companies don’t care who leases copiers with them, because they are basically banks, and they want money.

Advantage:  Printer Dealers get all the industry inside information from their trips to Las Vegas.
Disadvantage:  There is really no inside information that Independent dealers don’t know.  We all talk.