My only request for my computer guy was to keep the cost as low as possible. I did inform him that we had a budget and his fee would have to be paid out of the budget as well. He let me know that he had a really good company that he wanted to use for most of the purchases and they were really reasonable. I could only hope that he was right.

After the first few large purchases were made, and the first few labor bills were paid for the computer guy, I was feeling better. He had bought some used hp servers at a remarkably low price and installed them very quickly since he had installed them so many times before.

I started telling all my friends about the price that my computer guy had paid for the used hp servers and they were shocked. They all asked me to get the name of the company he had used so that they could give it to their computer teams. Four of my friends wound up using the same company to get used proliant servers at really good prices and I also purchased some used proliant servers to have in my storage room for backups.