Konica/Minolta

In June of 2009, we were approached by a sales representative for Konica Minolta. He convinced us to sign a contract and they delivered a copier that was designed to support our copying,faxing and scanning requirements. The machine has been very beneficial, but if I could cancel this contract and go with anyone else, I would in a heartbeat. This company has been the hardest vendor to work with. The sales rep did not notify us that they needed to have proof that we had business insurance and so they began to charge us $12.00 additional per/month for insurance.

The sales representative hounded us every day for a letter of reference, until we finally gave him one. He wanted a reference letter the day after we signed the deal with him and now we no why. He needed it before we started experiencing the poor customer service he knew we would be receiving0 once Konica-Minolta began their poor practices, as they do. They are very hard to get in touch with when you call customer support. They are very rude and unwilling to be understanding with a new customer.

They had us fax in "proof of insurance" over 8 months and continued to charge us insurance, late fees (because they wouldn't help remove the charges) and basically treated us extremely disrespectfully. I cannot believe the way they have treated us. Do they think we will ever do business with them again. No way! We have been in business for over 8 years and this company is by far, the worst company that I have dealt with.

I went to their website and there was no way for myself to communicate or lodge a complaint. I am very busy and I am taking time out of my day to send you this. I am also in the business to manage business customers and if I treated my customers like they have treated us, I would be unemployed. What an unprofessional, disrespectful company they are.

I will never stop letting as many businesses as I can know what a horrible company this is. I know that they are treating other businesses this way and there are a lot of them that probably allow them to treat them so poorly. I have well over a million dollars in business insurance that covers anything located in my building, but Konica-Minolta is still trying to charge extra fees. What a disgusting company and extremely poor customer service/support. They get an F- in my opinion. Loss of valuable time dealing with false overcharges.

Replacement costs for the three color toner cartridges range from $206.97 to $383.85. This is apparently a new model and not all discount toner suppliers carry the toner for this model. Adding the cost of the black toner I bought in September to the cost to purchase new color cartridges would be somewhere between $365.62 to $542.50.

I spoke with Ray at Konica's customer service who advised that the printers Konica makes are worth much more than their sales price, and that they "make up the difference" by pricing the toner very high. Maybe I am naive and this is standard practice, but it should be disclosed on the sales literature that the printer comes with "starter toner cartridges" which will need to be replaced after 500 pages, and that the cost of the replacement cartridges, although having a much higher yield of 1500 to 2500 pages, will well exceed the price of the printer.

If I went to a car dealership and the salesman showed me the car of my dreams with all of the features I was looking for at a great price, I would buy it. If I were to find out after buying the car that it came with "starter tires" that would only last two weeks and that the cost of the replacement tires for this particular car exceeded the amount I paid for the car by double, I would be mad as hell and screaming for some governmental agency to step in and say "this is not fair dealing with the consumer". But there doesn't appear to be anyone who can stop these printer manufacturers from selling their printers cheap and their replacement toner cartridges at inflated prices to "make up the difference".

Do your research. Price the replacement toner cartridges when you are pricing the printer. Ask what the yield is for their "starter cartridges", that is, how many pages will you be able to print with the starter cartridges. Then make up your mind whether it's a good deal or not.

I have a worthless two month old printer that I can't use (it won't even print black and white pages without the color toner cartridges), a worthless black toner cartridge about thirty days old which is 82% full, and I am forced to buy a new printer because it is more economical than buying toner for the printer I have.

Thanks for you time

Copytronics promised the Konica Minolta C640 Copier would perform to a standard it never achieved. The ability promised us to print on 8 1/2 x 11 for our mass mailings has never worked. We were promised a speed of 65 PPM (never reached) and a run of 200,000 copies/prints before maintenance with barely better than a rate 100,000. They sent over several technicians including their best without result.

We've spent quite a bit of extra money using outside vendors to handle our printing needs. Due to the slower rate of printing and maintenance issues, we've missed printing/copying deadlines. The whole matter has caused considerable, lost productivity.

My digital camera has a known defect. I did not learn that it is a known defect until today. My camera became out of warranty on Feb. 15, 2006. I became aware of the defect soon after purchasing it, but I did not know it was a known defect. I immediately phoned Konica Minolta and reported the problem, not knowing that it was a known documented defect. I was not told that it was a known defect. I was told that I could send the camera in to be looked at. I did not want to be many weeks without the use of my camera.

I thought it was a temporary problem and perhaps was caused by some camera setting and that it was clear up on its own. I did not send it in. The problem did clear up and I thought that it was gone permanently. After some time, the problem returned. I was concerned, but thought again that it would clear up on its own. Again it went away, and I thought it was a mysterious problem that came and went, but I could not find what the problem was related to. For the past 2 months, I have been noticing the problem and today I decided to test all the settings on the camera to see if I could find the cause of the problem. I went online and searched for any postings referring to the problem that I encountered. I found that it was a documented known problem.

In my personal camera, it was just as others had written about, but more noticeable than it was described in the postings that I found. I phoned Konica Minolta today and discussed the problem with them. I asked if they saw in my records that I had reported the problem shortly after purchase. I was told, "Yes", that the documentation was in my account. However, because the camera was out of warranty, it would cost approximately $200.00 to be repaired.

I feel that since this was a known defect in the camera and that it existed at the time that it was purchased, that the camera should be replaced or repaired without charge. The defect is not exclusive to my personal cameral As I understand it, it exists on all Konica Minolta A200 digital camera. The defect is a major one. The digital camera has a still mode and a movie mode with audio. When the camera is in movie mode, there is a continuous background sound that is a clicking, grinding sound. It seems to be related to the camera doing some automatic focusing operation, even though I have the auto focus option turned off. It occurs when the camera is in movie mode, even when it is not recording. If I place the lens cap over the lens, the sound stops. When a video of any scene is recorded and is played back, there is a constant clicking, grinding sound that overlays any other sound that may be part of the video.

In January 2006, I submitted a $50.00 rebate for the purchase of DimageX1 camera. They refused my rebate because of the UPC that supplied. I supplied the only UPC that was on the camera box.The rebate was a reason that we purchased the Konica Minolta camera.

We feel that Konica Minolta has reneged on their contract to send us the $50.00 rebate.