A fax from the Administrators of Bill Express to newsagents this afternoon has some interesting points:
The Bill Express network/platform has been maintained/supported with the assistance of an unrelated group of companies, the Technology Business group of companies. While the Technology Business companies maybe structured to be unrelated, one only has to look at the ownership and operational structure to see that they are related. Certainly newsagents signing agreements years ago with Bill Express and Technology Business International would have seen the two as related.
The Technology Business Group purport to own the servers/terminals utilised to deliver the Bill Express network/platform. The Administrators are currently investigating this assertion by the TB Group. TB Group’s purported ownership of the operation of the infrastructure restricts Bill Express from accessing the relevant servers and/or terminals. I wonder if this can get messier?
A number of companies in the TB group were placed in Administration and the Administrators of Bill Express were informed that all relevant staff who have the knowledge and skill to effect the Bill Express network/platform were terminated. How can you effect a fire sale when the people who understand and operate the assets are no longer available?
Newsagents are starting to remove Bill Express equipment from under their counters. The Administrators will need to provide advice on what they ought to do with this.
I have not received this communication….. Would someone be able to fax this to me. 08 9330 0744
Thanks
How can you have two (or more) unrelated businesses operating out of the one address and call them unrelated?
Did they divvy up the rent etc???
The more we dig the closer we get to writing the novel “How to stuff up a business 101”
I NEED HELP
I have been trying to use the bill express screen for alternate advertising but I CANT TURN IT ON!!
Has anyone else had this problem?? If yes can you please let me know how I can turn the big tv on.
Thanx
does anybody have any idea what happens to the bill express equipment eg terminal and screen
Andrew you can go the website and search for the instruction manual. If your screen is BenQ, then BenQ homepage is
http://www.benq.com.au/support/
and choose LCD TV and then model number. You should be able to download a copy of the manual for the TV.
Until someone comes in and wants to collect the advert screen, we spent $50 on a DVD player and settop decoder and plugged it into the AV port. In the mornings we show sunrise and the news and then we play a DVD for the rest of the day. The customers love to watch replays of the tennis or footy and when the olympics come around we can play this all day as well. Finally money well spent
have to disagree with you there, a wise newsagent, if they have the know how, would be using it for advertising their own products, whether it be making your own looping dvd or plugging an old computer to it and running a powerpoint presentation.
i havent had a look at it yet, but im going to plug up a keyboard and mouse to the mini pc behind the screen and see if i can install powerpoint using a usb thumb drive.
We have linked these DVD’s to our Tour de france mags and other products and are getting increased sales from it. We tried powerpoint presentations however this works better for us. too each his own, all I’m saying is the screens need not sit idle.
Luke, what sort of set top decoder do u need to make the thing work?
Any decoder will work, we got ours from dick smiths because it is the size of a pack of cigs, and doesn’t take up any room. The DVD player is an el cheapo from Crazy clarks.
you can plug an aeiral straight in the back without a decoder to watch analog tv, all dependant on how good your reception is.
i might add, that i ordered a remote from benq the day i got the screen delivered so it makes it much easier to change the channels. but the tv side has very rarely been used.
another option is to also use the screen for your cameras, let the the crooks know your watching.
Gee… im glad i have a newsagency with a good stock of stationery….with all the paper flying around from Ezipass,epay,touch,tower,Anz,
St Dragon,NAB and 2 bits of paper from BE im running out of paperclips and folders……. 🙂
yes adam it is getting rediculous the amount of paper going out the fax machine this week just to end up in the bin .everyone is trying to jump on the backs of newsagents that are having a bad time getting through the bill express fiasco.