{"id":11543,"date":"2015-03-04T08:23:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=11543"},"modified":"2015-03-04T08:23:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T13:23:36","slug":"five-items-spock-would-consider-illogical-about-purchasing-or-leasing-a-copier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/sales-and-service\/2015\/03\/five-items-spock-would-consider-illogical-about-purchasing-or-leasing-a-copier\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Items Spock Would Consider Illogical About Purchasing or Leasing a Copier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"spock\"Last friday\u00a0at lunch, I saw the scrolling marquee that Leonard Nimoy had passed away.\u00a0Leonard was best known for his role as Spock<\/a> in the original Star Trek series.<\/p>\n

Like my mother, I’m a fan of science fiction and believing that one day everything that we’ve read and watched will come to fruition in our world.<\/p>\n

Spock was from the planet of Vulcan and his species\u00a0had developed a path of pure logic, in addition they were capable of extreme emotions, but developed techniques to suppress those emotions.\u00a0Thus to honor Spock, I’d like to share a few things about the copier industry that would cause Spock to raise an eyebrow.<\/p>\n

Most illogical about copiers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Spock\u2019s mouth to your ears.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Why is it that\u00a0I can buy a small A4 MFP Copier\/Printer\/Scanner for $300 with built-in wireless connection, yet to add a wireless connection for a mid-size copier the wireless card is $400-$600?<\/li>\n
  2. Your maintenance contract includes “x” amount of pages every month for “x” amount of cost.\u00a0 Why is it that if I don’t use those pages they are not credited to the next month?\u00a0 I am paying for them, why must I lose them if I don’t use them?<\/li>\n
  3. Wait, your new<\/em> system only has a 90-day warranty?<\/li>\n
  4. You’re telling me that if I purchase or lease the system and don’t take a maintenance\/supply agreement that I also need to purchase start-up supplies?\u00a0 The system does not come with toner?<\/li>\n
  5. I’ve been contacted by four different sales people all selling me the same Ricoh system.\u00a0 One is a Savin dealer, the other is Lanier, the third is Ricoh Americas, and the last one is a Ricoh dealer.\u00a0 Is there no such as things as protected territories?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Someone, somewhere once told me “that life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you get to the end of the roll, the faster it goes.”<\/p>\n

    Good selling!<\/p>\n

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      Last friday\u00a0at lunch, I saw the scrolling marquee that Leonard Nimoy had passed away.\u00a0Leonard was best known for his role as Spock in the original Star Trek series. Like my mother, I’m a fan of science fiction and believing that one day everything that we’ve read and watched will come to fruition in our world. Spock was from the planet of Vulcan and his species\u00a0had developed a path of pure logic, in addition they were capable of extreme emotions, but developed techniques to suppress those emotions.\u00a0Thus to honor Spock, I’d like to share a few things about the copier industry that would cause Spock to raise an eyebrow. Most illogical about copiers\u00a0 From Spock\u2019s mouth to your ears. Why is it that\u00a0I can buy a small A4 MFP Copier\/Printer\/Scanner for $300 with built-in wireless connection, yet to add a wireless connection for a mid-size copier the wireless card is $400-$600? Your maintenance contract includes “x” amount of pages every month for “x” amount of cost.\u00a0 Why is it that if I don’t use those pages they are not credited to the next month?\u00a0 I am paying for them, why must I lose them if I don’t use them? Wait, your new system only has a 90-day warranty? You’re telling me that if I purchase or lease the system and don’t take a maintenance\/supply agreement that I also need to purchase start-up supplies?\u00a0 The system does not come with toner? I’ve been contacted by four different sales people all selling me the same Ricoh system.\u00a0 One is a Savin dealer, the other is Lanier, the third is Ricoh Americas, and the last one is a Ricoh dealer.\u00a0 Is there no such as things as protected territories? Someone, somewhere once told me “that life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you get to the end of the roll, the faster it goes.” Good selling!    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,1638],"tags":[106,151,2121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11545,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions\/11545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}