We give business computers a second life.since 2017 →
An owner-operated shop in Clearwater, FL with one job: keep good hardware in service and out of the landfill. We refurbish and resell business-class computers honestly, and give organizations across the country a trustworthy way to retire their IT: pickup along the East Coast, nationwide by shipment. Eight services, one bench, one phone number.
“Quality products. Great prices. Happy customers.”
— The ATECH Promise
Ian Anderson · Owner
Ian Anderson
Be prepared. Stay organized. Take care of people. That’s the whole job.
Growing up, I was in the Boy Scouts, and I’ve lived by their motto ever since: Be Prepared. It shaped the organization and preparation I look for in my company, and it’s why we work proactively, not reactively, in recycling and IT.
I built my first computer at 13 after wanting to play games with my friends online. In high school I started fixing iPhone 5s and 6s, and that was the real beginning of AndersonTech. As phones got harder to repair and repair shops popped up everywhere, I moved to computers. I never had a firm idea of what I wanted to be, and that scared me, but I knew it would be tech.
I was always a dedicated worker, but doing the same thing over and over for someone else wore thin fast. I spent a year at McDonald’s, then a year doing work-from-home tech support at Frontier. After Frontier, the business needed more hours than a day job allowed, so I took the risky step of going full-time. Those two jobs taught me what I value most: how to talk to customers and keep a hard situation from going sideways. I think everyone’s first job should put them in front of people.
The hustle was real. I met buyers in parking lots at 11 p.m., sold computers out of the back of my car, chased going-out-of-business deals on Craigslist, and got burned more than once on “working” machines from closed call centers that didn’t work. The turning point came when businesses and call centers started ordering from me every week and every month, not just weekend buyers at the garage.
My parents gave me a roof over my head and food on the table, but they never put money into this business. AndersonTech was bootstrapped: a few thousand dollars of savings at 17, and every year’s earnings reinvested right back in. More than once I came close to going completely broke, down to less than a dollar in my bank account.
Running your own business isn’t for everyone, and there’s no shame in that. For me, the success and the failure sit on my shoulders, and that’s what gets me up every day. I believe customer service comes before everything: call people back, quote the job, and take care of them after the sale, so they leave feeling whole. And the boss should always be ready to pick up the broom.
Good computers, where they’re needed.
Giving back has been part of AndersonTech from the start, and we still do it whenever we can. Good computers from our bench go where they’re needed most, from students in classrooms overseas to nonprofits close to home.