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Caveat Emptor, Let the Buyer Beware

(First of a Series) Seismic Accelerographs are very expensive. A single unit will easily cost you an average of well over and about a million pesos (Philippine Currency) more or less, certainly much more than the price of some quality brand-new cars. Prices range from a little less than a million pesos to around 2 million pesos for a single unit depending on the brand and supplier that you will be dealing with. But why so expensive? Is it worth the usefulness of the device? Only the suppliers can answer these most commonly asked questions and the best that buyers can do is to thoroughly require them to provide you with more than satisfactory answers. With so much cost involved in purchasing seismic accelerographs, one must be fully equipped with utmost care and purchasing knowledge as this equipment will be installed in the very structures that you will be spending a lot of your working time in, supposedly, with your safety and the structural health in mind. Diligence in t