Comments on: Power Conversion

By: Brian Palmer

Brian Palmer — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:39:17 +0000

APC does take care of the freight if your trading in the whole UPS. You can trade in any brand working or not and purchase double the VA of what your trading. You can trade in several smaller units for one larger unit. Here at Vision we send out UPS barcode labels to our customers for units under 150lbs, units over 150lbs we schedule a truck to come and pick them up. All the old units still go back to APC. No need to order directly from APC to take advantage of the TradeUPS program. Your VAR should know about this program. Actually freight on the new model should be cheaper going through a VAR they can shit it from local a local warehouse. I promote the TradeUPS program to my customers and process dozens of TradeUPS orders every day.
Send me a line if you have any questions.

By: Gabe Grayum

Gabe Grayum — Mon, 23 May 2005 18:09:17 +0000

If I recall, the last time I ordered a replacement battery, it also came with a label to ship the dead battery back in the box. Definitely makes it worth ordering directly from APC.

By: Robert Bell

Robert Bell — Mon, 23 May 2005 12:49:07 +0000

I just traded in a quite elderly APC Smart-UPS for a new one and found it less expensive than buying one from any of the online sources I checked. At other times and for other potential trades I’ve found the opposite to be true, clearly a case of YMMV, but worth investigating in any case.

By: Milan Negovan

Milan Negovan — Mon, 23 May 2005 03:11:05 +0000

Sending in your old unit for free in a nice offer, considering how much they can weigh and the cost of shipping these days.

By: Chris Griego

Chris Griego — Mon, 23 May 2005 02:51:06 +0000

I used APC’s trade-in program just last month after deciding my backup was bad. Aside from the fact that it had problems recognizing my very old model’s serial number, everything else worked without hitch and I was very happy to not have to worry about disposing of the battery myself and I have a more powerful system to handle the equipment I’ve collected since I got the first one.