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EZSystems   Rentals Tape & Optical Drives

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO RENT BY THE WEEK?
We rent drives for $100 to $300 per week depending on the drive.
Prices are listed down 2 paragraphs (see below-which drives are included). We consider a week to be 7 days, and weekends are included in the rental period. Shipping time (both ways-out & back) is included in the rental period. For this reason, it is best for you to choose Fedx Standard Overnight or FedX Priority service when we ship to you and when you ship back to us. This is acceptable to most people since the drive is usually needed in a pinch anyway. Please note that the weekly rate is not pro-rated on a daily basis if the rental is less than 7 days or exceeds 7 days or 14 days. We think this is fair because our weekly rate is reasonable vs. buying plus for the risk we assume on a rental-we generally like to get a minimum of 2 weeks rent ($200-$600).

CAN YOU RENT TO OWN?
Our rental program is not a rent to own program. If you decide after a few days or weeks that you want to buy the drive, you can, but we will charge you the full purchase price plus the weekly rental charge(s). We do this because some of our customers end up keeping rentals too long and then they decide it would be cheaper to buy the drive but this isnt quite fair to us because this short changes us on the rental and lessens the motivation for our customers to return the drive within the terms of our rental program. Most people let us know when the drive goes out how long they expect to keep the drive.
 
WHICH DRIVES ARE INCLUDED IN THE RENTAL PROGRAM?
We rent you refurbished drives directly from our inventory. So please be specific about the unit you are renting. For example is the unit internal or external (mounted in a case)? Which model do you need? Which manufacturer? Is it 3.5" or 5 1/4" mounting-on internal units? Please enter all this information into our online order form or give this informaton to your sale representative when you are on the phone with us (see the how to rent section below). Please make sure that when you order a rental to specifically write in the form that is is a rental.

Most of the drives we sell and repair are included in the per week rental program. Per week rental prices are listed below by drive type.

Drive Type Cost Per Week
QIC, TEAC, Syquest, Bernoulli, JAZ..............$  100
4MM, 8MM, MO, WORM, CD-R....................$  150
Libraries, Autoloaders, DLT, AIT. 9 Track....... $  300
3480/3490/3490E, Jukeboxes....................... $  300

Rental availability is subject to change without notice but most of the models we have in stock. It is always best to check with us beforehand via telephone, email or fax about a rental units availability.

HOW DOES THE RENTAL PROGRAM WORK? What is the process?
Essentially, we take your order like it is a purchase order (sales order) but we do not run your credit card until after the rental unit is returned.We ship you the drive with an invoice stating the full purchase price (in case you decide to buy it), weekly rental cost, drive model, serial number, etc., this action takes the drive out of our inventory. Then we ship it to you using the ship method of your choosing and when you are done with the rental, you call or email us (mention your invoice number), and we will give you a return material authorization (RMA) number to send the unit back. Once we get the drive back, we re-invoice you and charge your credit card (with some prequalified customers we send them a bill). If for some reason we do not get the unit back, we charge you the weekly rental charges plus the full purchase price of the drive. So, it is best to buy the drive early in the rental period if you know you want to keep it.

WHY SHOULD SOMEONE RENT A DRIVE?
Some of our repair customers do not like to be down when they send a drive into us for repair, so they rent a drive first, take the system down and put the rental in place, then they send us the bad drive for repair, we fix it and send it back. Then they take the system down again, take out the rental and put the repaired drive back and return the rental to us.

Some customers just want to get data off an old tape before they throw their broken down older drive away. They don't want the old drive fixed.

And still other customers want to (on a one time basis) read tapes sent to them or write tapes so they can send them to someone else. This is referred to as media distribution.

Sometimes, our customers want to read 4MM tapes and put the data on to 8MM tapes. We call this media or data conversion.

So, you can see there are all kinds of reasons why you may want to rent especially if you plan on not keeping the drive for too long.

HOW DO I RENT?
You have 3 ways to rent as follows:
1. You can rent by phone, see our contact information page.
2. Or you can order online via our secure server. Please include all your requirements when using our order form.  Please mention this is a rental order on the form.
3. Or you can fax us what you need but please make sure to let us know the following: the manufacturer, is it internal (3.5" or 5 1/4") or an external unit.

Thank you in advance for your interest in renting from us. 

EZSystems    Tel: 714-662-4959  3480 W. Warner Ave. #A Santa Ana, CA 92704  Fax:714-662-6859
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