38 contract terms in 11 Fuji small business contracts declared unfair and void

Update:

"word on the street" is:

Fujifilm has/is about to send out two letters to all affected customers.

letter 1: (trying to capture which customers are under 20 users - the vertical affected)

letter 2: if > 20 users none of the above applies if < 20 users then your options are...blah blah.

Back in the trenches, Fuji is bleeding users, from just our experience they don't seem to be winning many deals and their local sales force is spent/jaded from the customer pushback over the ACCC incident.

Some of their plans to combat the losses is dumping a desktop A3 on the market at below market rates (sub 2.5k A3 desktop).

VAR's are also getting the box with 3 years warranty allowing service rev to go straight to var instead of Fujifilm.

A slight problem with the above is it's sold out for months... back orders are huge currently and while this occurs Fuji signed agreements are not that hard to cajole over to a machine that's available now.

All in all perfect for Xerox Corp to enter the APAC market.

Its highly volatile across angles (staff dissatisfaction both support and sales, stock shortages, long-term management issues left unresolved and so on).

There are a good 5 smallish potential acquisitions ($10-20 million) that would be simple acquisitions for an experienced OEM like Xerox who is skilled in acquiring large VAR's / Dealers and folding their operations into Xerox's tested sales/support engine.

The only questions hanging over this potential game player in the market is WHICH devices would Xerox lead with?

I'll leave the speculation to the fellow colleagues in P4P who no doubt have a few theories they may be willing to impart.

great information and thanx for that. I'll go back to a statement where "Jake" mentioned that they are looking for additional companies to partner with for MFPs

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