Catherine,
Its a very competitive market and you need to remember you hold all the cards I.e. The assets. Nearly all storage companies will offer "discounts" to get your business from the incumbent. You can negotiate to off-set the cost your incumbent storage company will rip you off, I mean charge you, to remove YOUR assets from their warehouse. I recently did this by way of free storage on all boxes moved to the new company until the exit cost was covered, in this case 7 months. By tendering you should be able to reduce you overall storage cost, as each try to undercut the other. We reduced our storage cost by as much as 30% and increased our service levels to boot.
Robin
Freashfields Bruckhaus Deringer
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Sent: Fri Nov 16 16:09:37 2007
Subject: Moving from one commercial storage company to another...
Recently I've been coming across a general viewpoint that when you have
a lot of boxes stored with a particular storage company you are "stuck
with them" and can't ever move to another because the costs of removing
the boxes are so prohibitive, so it is assumed that the cost of staying
will always be cheaper than the cost of moving.
Does anyone have any comments on this? I'm particularly interested to
hear from anyone who has moved from one to another and found that it
worked out cheaper overall.
Thanks as ever, this list is so useful and helpful.
Catherine
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