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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Computer Rental - A Competitive Market

By Lemuel Asibal

The quality of computer rental service varies from company to company, and I would say, from location to location. Computer rental service providers in Melbourne really matter when it comes to this kind of online service providing business.

Computer rental service providers offer rentals of different technologically advanced items such as notebooks, monitors, LCD projectors, scanners, printers, desktop computer units, audio visual products and many more. There are two kinds of rental provisions: (a) short term rental and (b) long term rental. The time span of rental depends on the clients on which suits them best. The mentioned rental provisions also vary in price, as much as every item to be rented. This kind of service providing venture works by providing computer or audio visual equipment to the people who are in need of the equipment, most of the time, for emergency reasons. The service, of course, is for a reasonable fee. Most of rental companies such as those located in Melbourne are operating online. This is because operating online is proven effective and a sales generating business strategy. Aside from exposing your business worldwide, you get more potential customers 24 hours per day and 7 days a week because a website never sleeps.

Most of the Melbourne computer rental companies have been operating for several years already despite the competitive market they are in. The mere fact that a company survives for several years is already an indication that such company must have served its clients very well. It is already a common thought that the longer the company exists, the more reputable and credible it is in terms of providing quality and customer-satisfying computer rental service.

There are a lot of business strategies to survive. Some gives incentives in different forms to attract more customers. Some also gives a little bit cheaper prices of rental items in which the difference matters in cents only. Big companies that offer computer rental services have fixed prices. However, small and medium ones offer negotiable prices. The final price would be the one that is agreed by two parties (the rental provider and the customer).

The companies of this kind usually get the equipment they have for rentals from dealers at a rate in wholesale. The rental services cover equipment customization, installation and dismantling, shipping to the item to the customers if in case they are from very far places. The shipping though may be done with extra charges to be paid by the customers.

Assistance in the operation of particular equipment is also provided by the computer rental company. They send out a person or a team to help the customer set everything up.

To recap the price issue, rental companies usually base the price of every equipment item according to its quality and length of time for that item to be rented. The payments can be done through checks or credit cards. Money order would also be accepted as a form of payment; but nowadays, this method of payment is already seldom.

Visit TR Vidcom, the leading audio visual equipment rental hub based in Australia. The company offers specialised solutions and caters clients from commercial and government establishment across the Asia Pacific, recently working on its product and service availability to other countries of the world.

2 comments:

Eat My Rice : Mga luto ni Alpapito! said...

In any aspect of life there is competition. Competition is very rampant when it comes to business, Computer rental business is one. Each companies give their best to be on top and to gather more client. They have their own special offers some of them are just like the same, offering popular computers, low prices. Whatever they do I'd still say that the first in the computer rental business are often on top.
But that doesn't mean other companies are discouraged, the good thing about this competition is the more bigger the enemy is, the more competitive they are.

Yen Yen said...

Thx for your comment.