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Re: Is This the Beginning of the End for the Padding of Lease Rates?
Part Two: Leasing News Exclusive: The Opposition and How Senator Steven Glazer Got SB 1235 Passed (Part 2 of 3) By Tom McCurnin Leasing News Legal Editor The bill was "Engrossed and Enrolled" and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m., September 12th, awaiting his decision to sign or veto. How He Pushed It Through the Legislature What are the takeaways from this interview and SB 1235? ▪ First , I Was Surprised at the Overwhelming Support of Trade Groups for the Bill. When he rattled off the...
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Re: Is This the Beginning of the End for the Padding of Lease Rates?
Part Three Leasing News Exclusive: Is the Disclosure Too Complicated? State Senator Steven Glazer Position on CA SB 1235 (Part 3 of 3) By Tom McCurnin Leasing News Legal Editor The bill to require full disclosure of interest rates is awaiting Governor Jerry Brown's signature. It was reviewed to be recorded and sent to his office late last week. It seems unlikely he will not sign it as it passed the State Assembly 72-3 and in the Senate 28-6 .It then will be up to the California Department of...
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
SSG I checked here and there is nothing new at least about the recent passing of the Senate bill. https://ustr.gov/about-us/poli...ffice/press-releases I believe that Trump would still have to sign the bill and there is nothing about the House of Representatives either. It doesn't look good
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Re: Print Control/Mgmt
Hi Everyone, Thanks for your posts. Every year or two we see new, low cost competitors that come out of the woodwork for a little while. We are selling against these guys the same as you fight your low cost competitors. There are a few obvious detriments that seem to have stood the test of time. The revenue model can not possibly be profitable for 80% of your customers. Ridiculously low is exactly that, ridiculous and unsustainable. $500 worth of technical support will be used up mighty...
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Re: Senior VP wants P4P Access!
Given that he tried to register with false info, I'm concerned. This is a business site, not a personal site where limiting the amount of personal information shared is an appropriate privacy measure. You'll recall that I already ran into a situation once on this very board a few years ago where I did not feel I could be candid because of a manufacturer's response. If a manufacturer rep wants to post, then he/she should be totally honest and above board with their information and their...
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Re: Francis McMahon Joins Océ North America as Vice President of Marketing
This seems like a positive sign for Oce, who apparently is maintaining forward momentum. Must take some guts (and a generous offer) to move from a comfortable role with HP Indigo to Oce.
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Re: Ricoh Ikon Letter
Ricoh Covergence is next week, would love to hear everyones take on Espe and the others, of course with a dealer meeting they'll sign the praises of the dealer, however there may be a slip up or two and would like to hear those. Can anyone take pictures while they are there for us? I can then post on the boards here for all of us.
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Re: Mac
I've uploaded the doc file. Also, tech support did provide some very detailed information to me via email that I just reviewed. The main difference is that they are scanning via IP which doesn't account for the possibility of the IP Address changing.
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Re: Are Step Leases ethical business practise?
Geesh, almost sounds like a 3-5 program. I've done step leases here in the states, and on the ones I've done the leasing company makes us clearly state to the customer level of payment progression is and the lessee even has to sign off on it.
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Re: Are Step Leases ethical business practise?
Depending on the Lease vendor, they may provide cleverly designed Lease documents, with two payments streams on the document. The bad copier sales person fills in the agreed Payment #1 amount with the customer and leaves the Payment #2 line blank. The customer does not even see Payment #2 because it is blank. The customner signs the lease. Back at the office, this same sales person fills in Payment #2 with the Step Lease amount, and submits it to the Leasing company. Working with a less than...
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Re: "How Cool is this"? Digital Pen Printing Solution "Video"
This is very cool. Another solution to this would be to use a digital signature pad with pdf and/or msword drivers to sign the document online without then need to print it. Certainly not viable in all instances but another option.
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Re: When was the last time you did a demo in your demo room?
the vendor's risk should be proportional to the customer's committment. If they will sign a contingent order then you treat them like a customer. Though, if the answer to this question is based on a cost justificaiton, it would depend upon how streamlined your dealership is... If your salemen are doing the networking then you are gambling with more money than if your dealership has a tech taking care of the fine tuning.
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Re: First Look New Ricoh MPC2801_3301
We tried to order a Lanier LD533c (MP C3300) and were told that that the product has been discontinued. Has anyone seen pricing on the new models and Lanier model #'s for this series? The order was placed 2 weeks ago, and Ricoh just now told us that we can't get the product. As you can imagine, the customer is getting antsy, but we can't even re-sign the lease for the new model since Ricoh says info will be released this Friday.
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Re: The reason why Ricoh Bought Ikon
Revenue for the quarter rose 12% to 1.068 trillion yen from 954.1 billion yen. "There's no sign of any slowdown in the sales of our new products," said Executive Vice President Toshizo Tanaka. For the whole of 2010, Canon's net profit jumped 87% to 246.60 billion yen from 131.65 billion yen in 2009, while operating profit rose 79% to 387.55 billion yen from 217.06 billion yen. I don't know about in Canada, but they are doing OK in the US.
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Re: Invitation Webinar from UDOCX
To all P4P Members: Please set aside some time for this Webinar. The cloud and "smart" MFP's are the future! How often have you received kick back from IT when you've had to either install another server or have software installed on their server? UDOCX is not the case and a few of the IT people I've spoken to LOVE the concept, as a matter of fact, I'm inviting a few of them to the webinar! Seating is limited so sign up early, stay ahead of the competition with an advanced solutions talk...
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Re: JOINT STATEMENT BY SHARP ELECTRONICS CORPORATION AND EDWARD MCLAUGHLIN
Braxtoq, I think that the larger point is that the GUI is irrelevant. We (who have been in the industry for a while) can remember selling 75 and 85 ppm machines for $40 - $50k. Now they are talking about 75 and 85 ppm A4 machines for under $10k. The question is how you make up the revenue, and that has to be on services - and Sharp is not well positioned due to their thin direct side. Also, since they are print copy oriented (I don't think that they really make money on scanning), they are...
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Re: Dealer reseting meters??? USED as NEW!
Nice work....super sleuth! How can anyone live with themselves screwing over a church of all places. It does sound like that admin was not doing her job or there were no checks and balances. The bad part is it would be hard to prove that the meters were rolled back. But if I was in the situation I would cost justify how much those units were and be sure they were NEW if our organization wanted new. How do you not know if you buying new or used. Like you said if you sign a lease with the NEW...
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Re: AUXILIO Reports Year-end 2011 Financial Results
So, what happens if they expand and sign another nine new or expanded contracts next year? Will that also result in losses for 2012?
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Re: Marlin Does Not Disclose Possible Loss Of Evergreen Payments
There isn't more chatter on this forum because most salespeople don't consider it their responsibility to care. Many sales people will go to the ends of the earth to make their equipment perform for the customer but consider the lease contract the customer's problem...their the ones who signed the contract, right? Never mind that we are the ones that shoved it under their nose and it is because of their trust in us that they sign it without questioning. I suppose I shouldn't put all of this...
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Re: NEC Corporation of America Announces Closure of Document Solutions Division (DSD)
This isn't really even a story. For Konica Minolta and Kyocera it will be like losing a mid-sized dealer, & if it is somehow more than that, they will just sign up the NEC dealers as dealers of their respective brands.
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Re: NEC Corporation of America Announces Closure of Document Solutions Division (DSD)
The NECS is not good and a sign of the times. Years ago if you wanted to start a new dealership or go into business for your self you were able to go to the likes, of Adler Royal, Hitaachi, Towa, Copystar, Selex and probably a few others where you could get "Authorized" to service and support the systems, without the oressure of high quotas. Not having the pressure of the high quotas also allowed you to build the business slowly and remain profitable. Now that NECS is gone, what are the...
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Re: 100 calls a day, 240 minutes talk time a day, 4 opps per day
First: Your old employer is imploding. You don't ditch that many people all at once if things are going good or even so-so. Second: Non Competes are hard to enforce whereas Non disclosure/confidentiality agreements generally are not. (Non Attorney opinion, No I won't pay your legal fee's) Third: Did you re sign your non compete after the pay scale change? Is the pay change in writing, did you have to sign the pay change and do you have a copy? Did they give you anything in return for re...
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Re: CompTIA CDIA+(Certified Document Imaging Architech)
Here are the certification objectives taken off the Comptia website
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Re: Current Lease Rates
As long as we keep going with whoever has "The low rate of the Month", leasing companies will continue to come up with what I call "alternative forms of revenue." As long as lease companies feel that we don't care about anything but low rates, they will continue to lower their rate with the intent of getting their profits back in new ways. How many of you know whether your lease company charges "rental" for days between the day a copier is delivered and the day the lease commences. Even...
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Re: Weekend Notes from the copier industry!
WEEKEND MFP INDUSTRY NOTES 8-5-07 The following is a quick review of copier/MFP industry news from industry publications. - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is legal for manufacturers to create a mandatory minimum selling price for their product. The case was decided regarding a store that sold women’s clothing, that ran afoul of the clothing manufacturer’s rules. Unknown if any copier manufacturers will adopt this policy. - A group in Australia at Queensland University, is claiming that...
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Re: Stewart Letter to Customers in North East!
Nope, but we can say Libel Slander is harmful statement in a transitory form, especially speech. Libel is harmful statement in a fixed medium, especially writing but also a picture, sign, or electronic broadcast.
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Re: Padded Lease Rates! Ethical or Unethical,
Point - Counterpoint. Let me say first of all that I am the one for our company that would decide this and I choose not to pad the rates. I feel that leasing has enough advantages to the dealership without making more money on the transaction. That having been said, I also have no problem with dealerships that do. Does the dealership that pads also pay for shipping the equipment back? I'm just saying that sometimes a pad or mark-up is earmarked to cover an expense somewhere else. Some lease...
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Re: IP Fax, Internet Fax, or LAN Fax
I guess I assumed that they could use the LAN fax to send their faxes to a standard fax, and then receive the fax using their phone line. Sounds like the best bet would be if they have to sign the prescriptions first, is to just use the phone line to fax to the pharmacies?
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Re: The Processors add The Canon imagePRESS C7000VP Digital Color Press to Their Fleet of
Burlington, N.J., November 20, 2008 – Canon Business Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. and leading provider of document imaging and office solutions, today announced that Printing & Publications of Langhorne, Pa., has installed the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP digital press to support their need to provide quality short-run output to a growing list of clients. “The new Canon C7000VP provides us with added flexibility. From a workflow standpoint, we will increase productivity by...
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Re: Email from Canon P4P'er "Ricoh Direct Pricing"
Hey, I agree, but when you see that type of pricing without competition, what is everyone to think??? I've seen new wide format fully loaded at 8K, and MP C5000's that were reselling at 2% above dmap 6. If I may be so bold, I truly believe that the head honchos have no clue what's going on in the street, plus even if they did they have no way of stopping it. They need the boxes placed in order to keep the factories running, more boxes placed equals more supply clicks. They just don't care,...
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Re: Gas Price Check
It's been awhile, I guess we have seen gas prces steady, here in NJ, now $1.89 with a slow rising in the past few weeks, this may be the first sign of economy coming back.
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Re: What's New MPC 4000/5000
It reminds me of a sign I once saw above the door of auto repair shop I went many years ago. it read: Quality Service Price - Pick two of the three
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Re: Ricoh's Environmental / Green Policy
I would suggest going to the infocenter in aficio league or to Ricoh's website. I don't know if there is a www.ricoh-south africa.com but at www.ricoh-usa.com you will find more than you probably care to read. FYI, Ricoh is about to install the first ever, 100% eco-powered billboard on Times Square New York...all power will come from solar and wind panals incorporated in the sign. If the power ever fails at Times Square, the Ricoh billboard will be the only thing lit.
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Re: Notice to All Copier Employees
Subject: Redistribution Experiment Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read "Vote Obama, I need the money." I laughed. Once in the restaurant my server had on a "Obama 08" tie, and again I laughed as he had given away his political preference -- just imagine the coincidence. When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I...
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Re: Notice to All Copier Employees
Thanks for the laugh Art. Your last statement is priceless....
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Re: HELP!!!!!
The short answer is no, there is no work around, you will HAVE to have an SMTP server. However, there are several SMTP server programs you can get for free that have very easy setup. They can be run on a laptop or old PC. Here's a couple: http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html http://www.argosoft.com/rootpages/MailServer/Default.aspx We've used the Argosoft one multiple times. Gmail has an SMTP server as well, smtp.gmail.com you should be able to sign up the MFP for a gmail account and then...
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Re: Panasonic Dumps Dealers, Keeps all but a handful!!!!
These are the replies Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:13 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think there is hope for small dealers in small towns. If you are a small dealer near a large urban area you will probably be screwed. I think Canon is shopping for dealers to sign up or buy out. I think that will be your best option.
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Re: Xerox 5675
good job Chuck~ XEROX 5675 COPIER/PRINTER/SCANNER. A motion was made by Council Member Jones, seconded by Council Member Sudduth, to adopt Resolution R-1544-09, authorizing the Mayor to sign the three (3) year lease agreement and maintenance agreement with Berney Office Solutions for the lease of two (2) Xerox 5675 copier/printer/ scanner for City Hall at a cost of $552.96 per month.
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Re: Oce end user wide format pricing
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Re: How do you manage Letter of Intent dates for your customers?
I schedule a task in our CRM system for the first day that the letter can be submitted based on the terms of their lease. When the task is due, I email them a letter addressed to the leasing company stating the client's intent to terminate lease #___ at the end of its initial term. I list the assets by model & serial # that are on that lease & ask that they send return shipping instructions to the appropriate contact once their final payment has been made. I have the client print it...
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Re: What Happened with the RICOH Pro L4000
yup, Batelli resigned and that's not a good sign. Why should give me the job!1
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Re: Pending credit approval....
We need another Webex demo on this Virtual Copier Software (VircoSoft) Software! I can sign up 2 right now maybe more!
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Re: GE Return instructions
If you are still needing the return instructions for future use, I still have a link with GE. Not for new sales, but for getting my customers away from one of the most back-stabbing vendors I have ever seen. I have one customer who had about 130k with GE. When renewal time came in January, the customer opted to return the equipment, and have us put them with CIT. We returned the equipment to Wolff Enterprises via Bekins Van Lines. First off, Wolff signs for the equipment, but does not...
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Re: Scanning problem with win2003 small business server
As for the steps neccessary to perform this ability! I will attach a PDF giving you the steps for win2003 server. Slim463
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Re: Ricoh & Oracle
I have another tip I'd like to pass along. For some unknown reason, Oracle changed everyone's freight payment method to Collect. I don't know about you, but we find it pretty irritating having to drop what we're doing and immediately cut the carrier's driver a check. Our order processing person told me to write a letter on our letterhead and ask Ricoh to change us to "prepay and add." Be sure to specify exactly - wholesale, DMAP, supplies, parts, anything and everything that Ricoh ships out...
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Re: E-Copy just like all the rest.....#$%$
Yes, there is start off costs. The dealer needs to sign up with eCopy directly. RFG at this time does not offer eCopy through our own purchasing channel, i.e. it is not in our pricebooks. I have attached the document that I received from them directly. Hope this helps.
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Re: NCPG gets DMAP6 Cost
Worked on my end at work and home. How does one sign up for this and are Jewish Temples allowed? Thanks -=Boston Mike=- Theo's back and you are all in BIG Trouble!