Thursday 7 April 2016

Credit card machine leasing-three primary reasons for leasing the equipment

It is always better to lease a credit card machine rather than buying it. But ultimately it is your decision if you want to lease it or buy it. If you want to buy the machine the upfront costs are higher but the tax deduction amount is lower. But if you want to lease the machine the upfront costs are larger the amount deducted as tax is higher. When you buy the credit card machine, the manufacturer will give you a period of warranty. But if you lease the machine the lease company is always responsible if the machine is basically defective by nature and hence there are a lot of problems arising. If you buy the machine on lease you must remember that it was not your machine and you must return the machine to the company after the period of lease is over. The period of contracts is usually for 48 months. You are required to have a merchant account if you are buying the machine on lease. But it is not necessary if you are buying the machine.

There are three primary reasons for leasing the equipment and not buying.

1. The amount of tax deductible is higher. You can writ-off the entire amount from leasing the machine.

2. After the duration of warranty if the machine breaks downs and turns completely useless a new machine can be replaced during the period of lease.

3. It is upgraded and embedded with the facility of smart card technology. There is a microchip embedded in the machine. It gives detailed information of the smart card and also the details of the owner are mentioned. In this way, there is no scope for the leasing company to cheat the customers.

The total cost of leasing will depend upon the term of contract, the brand of the equipment and credit rating.

Some of the popular brands of credit card machines are the Hypercom T7 Plus, Verifone 3750, Nurit Lipman 8000 wireless and all of the above can be leased. Almost all the brands that are displayed on this website can be leased by the company.

If are free to clear your query online as they are available for 24 hours.

There are many types of credit card machines that can be leased like Hypercom, Nurit, Verifone etc. the companies that lease credit card machines are Aliant Financial services, Northern leasing systems, Inc. Rip-off Credit card machines, etc.

Before signing a contract with any of these firms is careful of the terms and conditions. Most of them do not allow canceling their contract in between. If the period of lease is meant for 4 years, you must stick to the contract for four years. Be careful because the terms and conditions that are prescribed in the agreement are written in utmost tinier letters and it becomes too uneasy for the reader to read it.

There is a list of complaints filed against the credit card leasing companies. Most of the owners do not state the fees to be charged for leasing and all of a sudden they debit from your account.

One of the consumer complained that he monthly paid them $41.76. For consecutively 4 years and paid $2004.48 totally. He preferred to buy it through eBay because he would have purchased for $165 the entire handset. He was not expecting that the lease company would demand closing fee that would cost him $284.87.

Most of them threat the customer to sue them if they wish to leave the contract and give nasty phone calls to them. In this way the customers are immensely pressurized.

Before you plan to lease a credit card machine check out whether the leasing company was earlier involved in frauds and scams. Most of the customers repented for leasing the machine when they would have easily purchased the machine for low cost.

While most of them complained FTC ( Federal Trade Commission) but they were told by the authorities that they would not attend the individual cases. So they had to further approach State Attorney General. But it is not an easy task to get your queries cleared here. The period of waiting is too long.

But ultimately you must not repent for leasing a credit card machine and realize that purchasing would cost you less. But in actual leasing is preferable compared to buying because you will never know when you do not need credit card anymore. Before leasing you must only be careful about the company?s reputation.

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