Friday, June 23, 2006
the History of the Fax Machine
Stay tuned, this Monday look out for the comeplte history of the Fax Machine, also known as the telecopier.
This will give you the complete understanding of how things came to be.
Thats it for now, folks.
Enjoy your weekend.
The Copier Advisor.
This will give you the complete understanding of how things came to be.
Thats it for now, folks.
Enjoy your weekend.
The Copier Advisor.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Toner Piracy - Black Gold
I got an interesting phone call this morning. While I was sitting in my office preparing some proposals, this woman calls and introduces herself as Danielle. She said she was calling from USCS.
"HI, I am looking for the office manager, today we are conducting a printer evaluation survey, are you the person I should be talking to? she asked.
I played along and said, "Yes, I am the person in charge."
"Well, we at USCS...
I interupted and asked, "what does USCS stand for"?
"United States Computer Supplies" she answered.
"I am not trying to sell you anything today, all I want to know is, are you using an HP, Brother, or Lexmark Printer at your office?" she asked
"Yes, I told her we use HP."
"Which model is it?" she askes very casualy.
"You see" she tells me, "today we are looking to send you some toners to evaluate for 30 days, and if you don't like it we can simply send it back to us free of charge. Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah,Blah, Blah,Blah, Blah,Blah.
You get the drift.
There are 1000's of these stories every single day.
Oh, in case you wanted to hear the end of the story, basicly if I would say yes to her offer, and fall into hehypnotic voice, and the risk free no brainer of a deal. She would send me 3 cases of toner, 1 the next day, another case the next week, and the next case over the week of July 4th. Someone would sign for it, and put it in the supply room. and then a bill would land on the desk of accounts payable in about 4 months, [once the toner is already used from the supplies room. and cannot be returned even if the bill is disputed and they say ok, return the toner...] needless to say, we would get overcharged like buying batteries at the airport.
The moral of the story is, DON'T BUY TONER FROM SOME TELESALES PERSON YOU DONT KNOW, REGARDLESS HOW GOOD IT SOUNDS. there, you have it, dont say I did not teach you anything in today's class.
Today's homework: visit http://www.tfc.gov that is the Federal Trade Commision's website and type in TONER in the search box.
Untill the next time,
The Copier Consultant
Ill bet you did not know that there is a fool buying a copier every 7 minutes in the United States. Well what do you care, you may ask? well I care, mainly becuase I deal with many of these fools each & every day.
You see I am sell copier for a living.
This Blog will enable me to gather my thoughts and share some of my experiences, both funny and sad, and hopfully you will learn something from me, so that if I ever do happen to work with you in the future you should atleast know a thing or two. {atleast about my industry anyways.} And aviod making the mistakes i so often see happen.
My best to you,
The Copier Consultant
You see I am sell copier for a living.
This Blog will enable me to gather my thoughts and share some of my experiences, both funny and sad, and hopfully you will learn something from me, so that if I ever do happen to work with you in the future you should atleast know a thing or two. {atleast about my industry anyways.} And aviod making the mistakes i so often see happen.
My best to you,
The Copier Consultant
