Art Post posted:Attached is the Allinplan from Xerox. I highlighted some of the less favorable points that I see. If anyone sees anything else please post a reply in this thread.
When you access the web site there are three choices for volume and three choices for coverage. I believe I selected the middle for both of them. The app then generates a lease document, each lease has a "benchmark". I was curious about that the first time I saw it. After reading through the lease twice I finally noticed the clause in the agreement that states something to the effect that if you are over three time in a row, XFS will either raise the monthly rate or add an additional MFP with a monthly fee attached.
Other than that I don't see that much out of the ordinary with the lease terms. But I did highlight some of my concerns.
I believe there will be issues down the road if someone selects minimum coverage and ends up doing high coverage.
I'll also post the copy of the maintenance agreement. In addition I don't see any copyrights so signup and download those quotes before you can't. As far as MFP's there are only three color MFP's on the site right now. I did not look at printers at this time.
So,
playing devils advocate here, if we hammer our first device two of every 3 months and limit printing using various methods on the third you would bypass the system safeguards/charges/up-feeing for overprinting?
Interesting, I think a lot of customers will be looking to find loopholes in this as the potential rewards are high.
Good luck to Xerox, I figure the only way this will work will be if their projections/calculations of how many customers are under/over printers (their sweet spot) are correct.
These figures I imagine are based on existing use customers so their is nothing to suggest customer print patterns will change (to the band where the customer is gaming the system and Xerox is breaking maybe even or slightly losing?).
All in all thanks for sharing, very interesting indeed.
AC68