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Re: Leasing Company Changes and Funding Disruption
We only use Great America but i have not seen any disruption. All seems normal with them other than the little caveat that the business must be open and operational at the time of funding. I haven’t seen credit tighten up from them or feel they are any more strict than usual.
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Re: Leasing Company Changes and Funding Disruption
I've seen the same with Great America also, they were always a little bit tight on credit anyway thus nothing has changed with them. That's a good thing
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Re: Is This the Beginning of the End for the Padding of Lease Rates?
Hello Art and the rest of the P4P members - Our industry association (ELFA), along with several independent law firms that represent many of our industry members are reviewing this legislation to determine the actual effects it will have on the industry as a whole and to provide guidance so that our members will be in compliance with the legislation. What we know at this point is that is you are involved in offering financing to businesses in California, you will be subject to this...
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
Would be nice if they could put some mfg plants in north america
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Re: "Green Jobs"
Our grandchildren will so ashamed of us for being snookered by the whole "climate change" scam. Loveland ski opens today, A-Basin on Friday By John Meyer The Denver Post POSTED: 10/06/2009 02:56:45 PM MDT UPDATED: 10/07/2009 10:06:35 AM MDT Loveland Ski Area was making snow Tuesday afternoon. (Loveland Ski Area ) And the winner is ... Loveland Basin. Boasting its earliest opening day in 40 years , Loveland officials opened for skiing today. Arapahoe Basin announced it would open Friday.
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Re: Personal Property Tax
wyzguynyuk: We use GE and Great America. The problem with GE is that sometimes they would go back to the customer and say they under estimated and have to collect the difference, thereby defeating the purpose of including it. Great America's rates are higher, but there are no surprises. We've decided to include personal property tax in all leases for tax exempt customers. It is at this time at the sales persons discretion to include it on taxable customers. Sometimes the $1 buy-out is...
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh
Canon and Océ: More Details Canon and Océ: More Details By Cary Sherburne on November 19th, 2009 Océ management conducted a well-attended press teleconference today to provide further details of its acquisition by Canon. Jan Hol, who was interviewed earlier by WhatTheyThink, was on the line from Europe, and North America was represented by Mal Baboyian, president, production printing systems, Océ North America, and Joe Skrzypczak President and CEO of Océ North America. Océ reiterated that...
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Re: Ricoh Pro C720
Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today the official launch of the Ricoh Pro C720/C720s, a production class multi-functional color system and the latest addition to Ricoh’s Pro series of products, designed specifically for the production environment. This flexible system targets corporate and commercial professional print environments with demanding application needs. The Pro C720/C720s has a robust duty cycle of 320,000 images per month, and runs at 72 pages-per-minute (PPM) regardless...
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Re: Panasonic Canada discontinues A3 Copier Distribution March 2011
Panasonic Takes Aim at Fast-Growing A4 Class MFP Market Company to emphasize growing A4 MFP format in response to customer demands SECAUCUS, NJ (February 4, 2010) — Panasonic System Networks Company of America today announced plans to substantially increase its footprint in the burgeoning market for A4 multi-function products. The A4 market has undergone rapid growth and is emerging as the de facto standard in the marketplace. As a consequence the A3 market has been fading and will no longer...
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Re: Matt Espe named CEO of Ricoh Americas Corp
It is surprising that they left Marty (The English Hammer) in America as Execeutive VP and CFO. As for the consolidation of locations and offices, the plan is for immediate synergy:
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Re: Konica Minolta’s new 240f multifunctional is a versatile performer
Lovely Muratec!Too bad it is not available in North America!
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Re: matt espe quits
WEST CALDWELL, N.J., June 25, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced that Kevin Togashi will assume the role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ricoh Americas Corporation effective July 1, 2010. Togashi takes on the role from Matthew J. Espe who has resigned his post as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ricoh Americas Corporation to become...
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Re: Ricoh Ends Relationship with Ratio
Here's what I heard. 1. Ricoh is not supporting the ratio controllers anymore, due to the fact that they find that thier embedded controller will meet the needs of the AEC market or something close to that effect (I really had to laugh when I heard that) 2. Ratio America which advertises on the P4P forums is selling and support the ratio controller (http://plotbasepm.com/rip_cube) with the rip cube. 3. Ratio.de website is still up and running http://www.ratio.de/ The truth of the matter is...
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Re: Ricoh Ends Relationship with Ratio
Let me further clarify my post. My understanding is this, Ratio Germany has filed for bankruptcy and no longer doing business. Ratio America is now its own entity and doing business seperately. They drive the Plotbase PM website and are selling Plotbase/Rip Cube etc. There is legal discussions that will allow Ratio to work with Ricoh. I think Ricoh recognizes the embedded is not sufficient but is tied legal on their actions. Also, Ricoh is still provide tech support for the controllers that...
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Re: Lease Approvals
I thought we had a thread similar to this and maybe even a poll. I would say that 90% of my deals are getting approved by the likes of GE, DLL, Great America, etc, however I am pre-screening customers now and not even taking apps from some, due to thier industry and or financial status. Some have bought and others have tried elsewhere, thus the reason my approval rate is high is because of the pre-screening and I believe would be far lower than 90%.
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Re: Competitive Copier Vendors
Lets get reaaaady to ruuumble! I know that not every statement I make is not true everywhere in North America. Hopefully, you will get a few "bullets for your gunbelt" on your next sales call.
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Re: Ricoh USA Eliminates CEO/President
Prior to the July fourth holiday weekend, it seems Jeff Hickling, President and CEO of Ricoh U.S. found his position was to be eliminated. Sources within the company that wish to remain anonymous have told us that Hickling is out. This has been confirmed with a letter from Kevin Togashi, Chairman and CEO of Ricoh Americas Corp. that was forwarded to us. For now, Kevin Togashi, Chairman and CEO of Ricoh Americas will direct the U.S. sales and operations. While working hard to build Ricoh as a...
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Re: Canon shaking up the great white north
Do not read too much into what happens in a small Canadian province and then apply it across North America.
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Re: Toshiba TEC (and OCE) partner with Memjet
I just caught this, seems all is well with memjet and silverbrook! Memjet Legal Issues Resolved Friday, May 04, 2012 Press release from the issuing company Memjet today announced a key agreement that clears the way for the continued commercialization of Memjet's revolutionary color printing technology. Under the agreement, Memjet will assume direct ownership and control of the intellectual property portfolio related to the Memjet technology, which includes some 4,000 issued and pending...
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Re: Toshiba TEC (and OCE) partner with Memjet
SSG Xerox has retreated from the North America market for wide format, but will continue to market systems in emerging markets. yeah, Toshiba seems to be the only player with memjet for MFP's we'll see!
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Re: Transform Global 2012
Day one has passed and overall, I'm impressed with the event. I actually ran into a couple of P4P members and finally after all of these years got to meet Lee Rummage from RJ Young. On Wednesday evening Oki hosted the evening reception @ Hiltons Signature Island. Food, drinks and networking, at this time I also had to the chance to meet Greg Walters (Death of the Copier) and now the newly elected President of the MPSA. I also ran across many new contacts and believe it or not many readers of...
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Re: Transform Global 2012
Wow. OK, I've never seen a study that didn't CLEARLY show total US print declining every single year since the 1990's. An account can still grow, of course, and you could be fortunate and have a mix of accounts that grow. But just looking at office paper shipments shows a constant decline every year. I think we're right at the stage where 50%+ of workers will never print until they have to "take something to the old man for approval". They'll just never have developed the habit of printing,...
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Re: Taking on Water
The p4p Community got this one correct! Ricoh lost -$342M in the U.S. last year. The worldwide loss was -$777M last year! Nice job. With Martin Brodigan already laying the hammer down (confirmed by Art and his sources), the rising tide of layoffs in America and abroad will be a tool to minimize losses this year. So far, the chaMPS Program has not been the answer.
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Re: Japan's Sharp Corp plans to sell its copiers and air conditioners businesses
where does Sharp place in the Market in North America? I wonder how that will look is Sharp as a device are replaced by Kyocera.
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Re: Japan's Sharp Corp plans to sell its copiers and air conditioners businesses
Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America Sharp Electronics Corporation One Sharp Plaza • Mahwah, New Jersey 07495-1163 • e-mail: SIICAmktg@sharpsec.com • www.sharp-pc.com EXECUTIVE BULLETIN August 16, 2012 Dear SIICA Dealers: As many of you have recently read, Sharp Corporation is in the process of revitalizing our operations in order to be more competitive. While this process takes time, we are moving aggressively to position ourselves for future growth. However, during this period,...
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Re: Leasing Company Copiers are Underwater
There's always a chance he'd be willing to make a horrible business decision for some PR reason. Marketing aside... no chance.
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Re: Leasing Company Copiers are Underwater
Agreed. The client (is it a municipality?) either took a risk knowingly "Eh, flood insurance, who needs it" or unknowingly (incompetence). They now have a loss. But, this is the trend... I made a bad decision, is there someone with the last name ", Inc." who can be coerced or compelled to pay the bill? Fixed that for you...
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Re: Leasing Company Copiers are Underwater
So, do you think it would be ethical for the leasing company to go after full stream of payments plus residual in the case I described??? I don't begrudge the leasing company a fair return on their outlay of money but to want the full stream plus residual 4 weeks after funding is excessive. That's making 40% interest on their money for a one month investment. Would you be happy as the leasing partner???? I doubt it. Keep in mind your reputation as a salesperson is attached to how your...
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Re: Leasing Company Copiers are Underwater
Found out today, that Assurant does cover floods, I actually got a document from them about their services and I'll post it here later. Seems like most BOP policies will not cover floods, and Assurant will. However this leads to another issue, when leasing companies ask for "proof of insurance" and get a copy of the rider, do they not check to see if their equipment is covered in case of flood? If they miss this and do not charge for insurance is it then their loss and not the lessee? Some...
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Re: Leasing Company Copiers are Underwater
Well, of course. We all understand that there is NO question of ethics, both parties signed a contract and agreed to obligations. Both took on risks. Now one party has experienced those risks. Is GA entitled to what the contract says they are entitled to after 4 weeks, or only after 5? Five is pretty short... maybe they get what the contract says after 15 weeks, but not 14? Or maybe they get what the contract says if the contract goes to term but they eat it if anything bad happens prior to...
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Re: Leasing Company Copiers are Underwater
I'm in the same boat. I now think that taking the leasing company's insurance is the best option for the customer. My customers with leasing company coverage have had a delay of a few weeks but next week I will deliver the first unit that was covered. Took a while but its a done deal. Another customer with their own insurance immediately got new gear right away. They were dead in the water without equipment so they did a new lease. I put on my sales order clearly that it was the customer's...
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
Samsung has been looking for a way into the North american market going on 5 years now. they own 90% of the MFP/Printer market in Korea (Look it up). If Samsung gets the business from Sharp they will have a small but established infrastructure that will give them a foothold into North America. With all the doom and gloom out reports from the analysts these days its good to hear something new and exciting.
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
I must admit I'm rather excited to see Samsung come into North America and shake things up a little.
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
Me too. I've got three new demo machines sitting here I've been playing with. To say they are going to shake things up is an understatement. The features and pricing are mind blowing.
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Re: New 75ppm color from Toshiba
Toshiba has released a new A3 colour line in Japan back in Feb 2013 replacing the current e4540c series. It is coming to North America sometime soon with a top speed of 50 cpm.
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Re: Toshiba Press Releases
Toshiba America Business Solutions Launch New Line Of Versatile And Affordable Copiers Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS) continues to strengthen the power of its e-STUDIO line with the recent launch of two new digital copiers that offer copying, printing and full-color scanning capabilities right out of the box. The e-STUDIO120 and 150 complete Toshiba’s breadth of products within the e-STUDIO line while delivering great value and functionality. The e-STUDIO120 and 150 both feature...
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Re: Ikon Press Release iR 105+
New IKON Office Solutions Guidebook to Help Customers Become More Efficient Through Better Use of Technology Efficiency Expert Jan Jasper To Help IKON Customers Improve Office Productivity VALLEY FORGE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2002-- IKON Office Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:IKN - News) today announced that it is offering a free guidebook for its current and prospective customers, designed to help them save time and money in producing, duplicating and transmitting documents. The guidebook,...
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Re: Ikon Press Release iR 105+
Thursday May 23, 9:20 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: IKON Office Solutions, Inc. IKON Adds Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 9000MFP to Digital Arsenal Targets New Business, Increased Page Volumes Through IT/MIS Decision Makers VALLEY FORGE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2002--IKON Office Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:IKN - News) today announced another milestone in its expanding Hewlett-Packard relationship with the addition of the HP LaserJet 9000MFP to IKON's lineup of digital output devices from...
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Re: Ikon Press Release iR 105+
From: Docusultant Sent: 7/29/2002 3:25 PM Monday July 29, 10:18 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: IKON Office Solutions Standard and Poor's Upgrades Outlook On IKON VALLEY FORGE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2002--IKON Office Solutions (NYSE:IKN - News) announced today that Standard & Poor's (S & P) has affirmed its BBB- ratings and revised its outlook on IKON and its related entities from negative to stable. "We are pleased with our improved outlook from S & P. This is...
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Re: Ikon Press Release iR 105+
IKON Names Matthew J. Espe, President And Chief Executive Officer IKON Office Solutions, a provider of business communications solutions, announces that Matthew J. Espe has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Espe was most recently President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Lighting, a $3 billion business with 35,000 employees and 55 manufacturing facilities across North America and around the world. He brings to his new position at IKON more than 20 years experience in...
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Re: Ikon Press Release iR 105+
Press Release Source: IKON Office Solutions, Inc. IKON Expands Production Color Offering With Canon CLC 3900 High-speed, High-quality Color Copier/printer Sets New Standard in Price-performance Monday October 7, 10:38 am ET VALLEY FORGE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2002-- IKON Office Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:IKN - News) today announced availability of the Canon CLC 3900 copier/printer, targeting the growing number of businesses that require color in their daily document workflow. This...
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Re: Toshiba Press Releases
January 21, 2003 - Toshiba America Business Solutions Acquires Hotz Business Solutions Toshiba Reinforces Strategic Growth Plan With Purchase of Leading Kansas City Office Equipment Dealer IRVINE, Calif., (January 20, 2003) - Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS) today announced that it has acquired Hotz Business Solutions (HBS) of Kansas City, Mo., a leading independent office equipment dealer in the Kansas City market with five locations throughout the states of Missouri and Kansas.
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Re: Konica
January 22, 2003 - Konica introduces 8020/8031 color devices New Digital Color Devices Offer High Speed and High Productivity at an Affordable Price WINDSOR, Conn. – January 22, 2003 – Konica Business Technologies, Inc. (Konica), the innovation leader in digital imaging solutions and a subsidiary of Konica Corporation, today introduced two new mid-range color multifunctional products (MFPs) — the Konica 8020 and 8031 Color Imaging Systems. Featuring copy and print speeds from 20 to 31 pages...
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Re: Who to use for Leasing
Heartland Leasing may be a good choice, I have heard good things. Have only used them once (no problems). CIT has been good to us, however that may come from all of the volume that we give them. I still like Great America also. Rates are through the roof compared to others. Art
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Re: Who to use for Leasing
I have been using Great America almost exclusively for about 4 years because I like the guaranteed residual on FMV leases (15% to customer) however, their rates are not even close to competitive. I have a meeting with Court Square Leasing on Monday morning because they are willing to guarantee residuals and have sent me some very attractive rates (.0190 for 60 mo./FMV/0 Down). I have used them on one deal and the paperwork and hassle was relatively painless. I'll post more about them after...
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Re: History of Ricoh
Aficio Brand Aficio® comes from the Latin root "afficio" which reflects Ricoh's creative concept and commitment to total customer satisfaction. Afficio embraces the meanings "manage", "handles", "move" and "influence".
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Re: I need a leasing company for a new customer
Mike: Heartland Leasing, Wells Fargo Leasing, Great America, GE Capital.