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I was doing fine until the guy raised the price from $300 to $450. It was for 13 phones, the KSU, and a Premier on-hold box.
The final price might be something in-between, but I'm wondering if the software is current, the manuals and software are easy to obtain, and if anyone actually wants it. I could get it for maintenance reasons, but I already have some of those types of systems.
If you can get the software it would be for bug fixes only, licenses are needed for enhancements. Yesterday technology? Not at all! It's been replaced by $hit service called the cloud. Yes, I'm sure I'll be told, Dan you are behind the times, but here is why, since the cloud base systems came on the market all I heard from all the companies selling them is the amount of money I could make, not one time was I told it was the best interest of the end user. My heart is in selling a good product at a good price for the end user and making money, the cloud is not a good product, its subpar!
Yeah, the money *you* make is on the backs of the customer. I think it's the business model of every manufacturer...Comdial, Mitel, InterTel, etal made money selling training and access. The first digital key systems didn't have that, but they quickly folded. Then the matter of old parts did in Vodavi, NEC, Nortel, Samsung and <<insert your brand here>>.
I liked the Yeastar and Grandstream models with permanent upgrades, but Yeastar has gone the route of selling access, kind of like ESI. Then when sales plummet, they discontinue the systems.
I love the IP systems because they don't require a truck roll to repair, just a remote computer, mostly. My latest learning target is the Fanvil single pair IP phones...but the selection is thin; only two models to date but they claim 300 METERS to an IP phone!
So, I'm still thinking on the SV. At $300 it was a bench toy. At $450, it's a tougher shelf of shame item. There are not many Trader Joe's stores in my area.
Maybe I'm a pessimist, I retired before I would sell hosted. Very little control of service, not knowing who has access to all the back-end data I.E. call records, who could be recording what and for what purpose? Remember the old sell Pri and get a check? As soon as they got enough clients, they either merged or ended the program, how long before the hosted carriers do the same thing?
What software are you after? the system has webpro built in so you can program it and even do a backup/restore same as the SL2100. I would help but the Australian version is different.
What's the difference between the 8100 and 9100? Was it two separate markets? I can pick up an 8100 carded 8x16 with 10 phones for less than $200. I didn't pay attention to any of the NEC brands except for the DSX and SL2100. I was Panasonic.
I'm still trying to deliver my last two hospitality systems and work on the hobby stuff, my Grandstream GCC6010 and a ClearlyIP 715. I just found the invoice for my Shelf of Shame (tm) items. Wow! Time to send some of it to the landfill!
The SV9100 is a souped up SL2100 the SV8100 is a souped up SL1100 more features and bigger capacities but if you can program one you can find your way round all of them.
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