End of an Era, or Two

Today marks an end of a couple of initiatives / changes to our offerings.

First, the scanner buy back scheme is ending. We've run the scanner amnesty for several months and many cheap and nasty scanners have been sent to scanner heaven (or hell). I've spoken to a couple of people and if they get their scanners in to us this next week we'll honour their machines, but for the rest of you .... sorry, it's over.

Second, we're making changes to our video conversion services, details on the product pages. Given this has been a successful part of our offerings why stop? First, demand has dropped. Obviously there are only so many video tapes to be converted and there have been times when we've felt they've all been in the hutch. However volumes have been noticeably down since the early part of the year.

We have also seen significant growth across the other areas of our services. We're doing over twice as many photos as we were a year ago, and we're getting many more orders with fewer than 200 photos. This means we need more space for incoming / outgoing parcels and as the hutch doesn't have elastic walls, something had to give. Getting rid of all the boxes needed to convert videos will free up a lot of space.

The third reason is to enable us to concentrate better on the areas of the business that we want to grow - photo scanning and slide scanning. The growth here is significant and we don't want to spread ourselves too thinly.