[DesertRatTom]

Welcome to the Forums. There have been a number of discussions recently on buying a first CNC. Notice that it's called the Router Forums, there are a number of forums, including one dedicated to CNC, where you'll find exactly what you're looking for. I am a business consultant specialized in vision care marketing. Somewhere in the CNC forum or if you run a search, you'll find a fairly extensive post on marketing CNC services. Personally, I'd love to hear more about your business. I've been in business for rmyself for 35 years and don't think I'd ever go back to being an employee. My daughter actually runs my business these days, she's my retirement plan, should I ever bother to do it. BTW, don't forget that if you've got the marketing down, you can contract out the CNC work--for example, there are lots of folks here with CNC machines who might like some retirement income. You may also also find my marketing post by searching my uploads and posts by name.

 

[DesertRatTom]

@ONUG Generally speaking, used tools sell in a range from 40 to 60 percent of their new value, and resale value goes down with age and quality and appearance of the machine. Most of the machines I've sold have sold for less than I'd hoped, and took a little time to sell. You also want to sell for cash--no checks or CC deals, and that means the buyer has to have the bucks available and lots of folks are credit rich and cash poor. With CNC you also have software and Operating System issues to contend with such as support, updates, license transfer. Why should they support you if you haven't paid them? So if I were buying used, it would have to be a fairly recently manufactured unit, and I'd probably be reluctant to pay a dime more than 40 percent of the new price and it would have to include the computer that runs its, especially if there is a proprietary dongle or code. Used computers are selling at about 15-20 percent of new.