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We have had some problems to get full payment for
the goods we delivered with about a dozen of different customers. The reasons
were different: from financial problems to claims that our
equipment does to fulfill all technical requirements or even some
expectations of the customer. However almost all these payment arguments
have been already settled and we have been finally paid without
necessity to go to courts. There is however one bad exception from this
rule: Opticos Corporation (www.optikos.com).
We are very sad to inform publicly that Opticos
Corporation - the company that claims to be the world largest
manufacturer of
equipment for the measurement of optical image quality and a
leading provider of optical product development services- is our the most
dishonest and arrogant debtor.
Short history
of our unlucky business relationship with Opticos
Corporation:
| Date |
Action |
| December 2006 |
We get telephone
call and later emails from Barry K. Logue
VP, Sales and Marketing, Optikos Corporation 286
Cardinal Medeiros Avenue Cambridge, MA 02141. From the information
delivered to Inframet is clear that Optikos Corporation won
over a year ago a tender in Pakistan for a system for testing image
intensifier tubes; Optikos Corporation is not able to manufacture
the required test station and wants to buy Inframet the ITS-I from
test station for testing II tubes. |
| January 22, 2007 |
Contract no OPTIKOS 010809 is signed.
Contract value: 126 760 Eur. Payment terms: 30% prepayment, 50% - 14
days after shipment to USA; 20% - 14 days after installation.
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| March 9, 2007 |
Inframet gets 30% prepayment from Optikos
Corporation |
| May 25,2007 |
ITS-I test station ordered by Optikos
Corporation was shipped by Air France to Boston, USA. |
| June 2007 |
Emails from Jamie Hutchins, David Imrie
from Optikos Corporation that confirm that Optikos Corporation had
received our goods and that is going to resell these goods to Pakistan |
| July-December 2007 |
no payment 50% of the contract that
Inframet should receive not later than June 10,2007 ( 14 days after
delivery of the goods to USA). The reason presented by Jamie
Hutchins from Optikos Corporation is that they have legal problems with
the final customer in Pakistan. Several promises that the 50%
payment shall be carried out soon. |
| November 30, 2007 |
email from Jamie Huthins informing us
that it was his predecessor, Barry Logue,
who arranged this contract, not him. However from legal point of view we
did not signed the contract with a person Barry Logue but
with the company Optikos Corporation. |
| August-December 2008 |
Negotiations with Optikos Corporations by
a debt recovery company in USA. Many oral and written promises by the
management of Optikos Corporation to pay the debt to Inframet. No real
effects. |
| January 2009-August 2010 |
Inframet is waiting patiently hoping that
Optikos Corporation finally will pay its debts. Our emails to Optikos
are ignored. |
| September 2010 |
A decision is taken to present publicly
the information about dishonest and arrogant behavior of Optikos
Corporation and prepare proper documents needed to start a legal case
against Optikos Corporation in court. |
We are surprised that a reputable high-tech
company like Optikos Corporation can behave in so dishonest and arrogant way
that can be potentially damaging for them. It is clear that this
case presents Optikos Corporation as technically weak company that
was forced to buy crucial technology from Inframet and at the same time is
dishonest not to pay for the purchased goods.
Documents
- Contract OPTIKOS
010809
- AWB 057 WAW 9401916
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