Acorn Stairlifts - For Anyone Who's Resold/relocated One?

[Steve-Harrass]

Please suggest a reasonable "sales price" for a secondhand / barely used straight-staircase superglide chair.
(It's like the one on this page http://www.northcoast.medichair.ca/Products/Lifts/Stairlifts/acorn-stairlift.php

[EDDIE51]

You will be lucky to get £100
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/acorn-stairlift-/151768106182?hash=item23561584c6:g:rhIAAOSwT6pVwJY0
Many are going for £10 to £50. That one at £200 is about the best price I have seen. I have been trying to sell one on behalf of my FIL had to let it go for £150.

[bednobs]

1) how much did you pay for it (just the equipment, not installation)
2) are you re-selling to the company or an individual
3) is dismantling needed by the buyer

[EDDIE51]

The problem is they are made to order for each house , there are no 'standard' lengths. Two houses supposedly identical can have a 6 inch or more difference in staircase length that makes transfer impossible.

[ubasses]

Have you had a look round the internet, there are several Companies that will buy them under 5 years old if regularly serviced. You probably won't get much but at least you won't have the hassle and costs of dismantling and disposing of it.

It might even be worth phoning Acorn to ask if they have a buy back policy I know Stannah used to.

[EDDIE51]

You will pay £2000 to £5000 for a new one bednobs.
Lucky to sell it for 10% of the cost! even if unused. I know of someone that paid £3500 for one and died 12 hours after it was installed. The company offered £150 to buy it back !

[bednobs]

perhaps most of the cost is in the installation. I would always advocate (if you have straight stairs) hiring instead of buiying

[ubasses]

The problem is when it is taken out it is expensive for the Company due to the cost of stairlift removal, reconditioning, storing, testing and redistribution. Just had a quick look at the Stannah site and they openly state their offer will only be 5-10% of the purchase price.

The only Acorn site I could find mentioning buyback was US.

[ToraToraTora]

Sadly this sort of kit costs a bomb new and is almost worthless 5 minutes later. For example a friend of mine just bought a 5k mobiilty scooter for a monkey, barely used.

[Zacs-Master]

I hope the monkey is happy.

[VHG]

We fitted one for my mother in a large house with a complex winding stairway. Cant remember the exact price but it was in the few thousands (£2,500?)

She died less than 2 months later and we only got about £250 for it, and we had to dismantle it ourselves.

[Coppit]

Acorn man told me that they cannibalise old models for spares. If you have an unusual model, maybe worth calling them.

I get the impression that the disability aids market is one big rip-off.

[hc4361]

It is Coppit. I had to be a shower seat which was well over £200 in a specialist shop. Same thing £40 on Amazon.

[Steve-Harrass]

Reply to Bednobs - I am trying to resell it to the company ("relocate" as they term it), and the dismantling of it is said (in their own literature) to cost £485