Used phone system dollar value?

June 6, 2010 9:36 AM

Anyone know of a website or place where I can find out the going rate for a used Mitel SX-200 pbx phone system?

This is the giant box that sits in the back that controls all of the switches for all of the phones throughout the hotel. I am not expecting a lot of money but I don't want to just give it away for free and lose some potential money.

My family owns a hotel and we recently switched to a new system. The old phone system works fine but it's just sitting in a room collecting dust now.

posted by Fizz to Work & Money (4 answers total)

You can seach eBay, filtering by "completed items" (you need to be logged into eBay to do a completed items search). It looks like a completely refurbished 36-room model with a warranty recently sold for $2,295, so that should give you a rough idea. You could always just put it on eBay with a low starting price and see what someone ends up paying.
posted by helios at 9:44 AM on June 6, 2010

Best answer: Look in your area for people who service phone systems of that age. We replaced our decades old PBX a few years back and sold the entire system including handsets to a local service company. They like to buy the stuff to use for parts when they repair other systems since it's easier to have some stuff on hand than trying to source it last minute. You won't get top dollar but you can usually muster about 50¢ to 80¢ on the dollar for what you would get with listing it on eBay, and not have to go through the trouble of listing fees, shipping (they'll usually pick it up), etc.
posted by msbutah at 9:55 AM on June 6, 2010

Best answer: A thing to watch out for: There are two series of phone switches that Mitel calls the SX-200. The one that's white, about 12" tall and accepts vertical cards is the older of the two. It was replaced with one that's gray and that looks like a small server or maybe a stereo component, called the SX-200 ICP. The former is primarily TDM with a relatively recent IP card option, the latter is primarily IP-based.

The problem with pricing is that it really depends what cards and licenses you have in there. Step one is to come up with a complete inventory of what you've got: extensions, lines, interfaces, voicemail, features, and so on. Also, do you have the sets as well, or were you able to reuse them with the replacement?

You might talk to your current vendor about buybacks of the old system, too, if they're a Mitel vendor.

(I worked at Mitel for several years but in their internal IT department so I only know a minimum about their actual products.)
posted by mendel at 2:59 PM on June 6, 2010

Response by poster: Thanks, the info I needed was answers and satisfied quite well. Cheers.
posted by Fizz at 7:49 PM on July 6, 2010