The cost of everything and in-between

I am navigating the closure of one of our facilities and also ingesting their data center equipment and full IT assets. Because of this I have had to deal with a lot of vendors. Equipment moves from one facility to another, equipment returns, et cetera.

I know that the economy sucks, but I am increasingly aware that I have no perception of costs ahead of time and it's impossible to spend a lot of time shopping around due to time constraints. Moving gear is less than 180 miles away from it's destination and can often be done the exact same day of the uninstall. I am convinced that everyone is on the "fuck you, pay me" payment plan irregardless if the equipment move is 30 days or 180 days scheduled out.

Here's a few examples:

SAN migration from one site to another, $24k. Never even touched the data. Just power off/box/transport/reinstall.

Move a small chunk of automated conveyor system, $30K plus 10k just in consulting.

Move a high speed Canon printer, $50k.

Couple new 10G SDWAN edges, $9500 each. Used ASR1K router, 5K. No installs, just the equipment.

Simple 1Gb dedicated connection, 1700/mo plus 4500 just to bring the fiber in the building from outside (the trunk for the whole street is right outside of my office), and a 3 year mandatory contract.

Transport of a lease return on a few empty racks were $4k each, and there wasn't even any gear installed so they were lightweight and could travel freight.