A couple of years ago I was introduced to the Holy Grail of chargers: A device that could charge 99% of all digital camera and camcorder batteries, all mobile phone batteries and even AAs and AAAs. It also had the bonus of an in-car charging cord and with it’s variable voltage could be used anywhere in the world.

Today there are now numerous different makes and models but none has managed to emulate both the simplicity and ease of use of my direct from the factory ‘AP Magic Charger’. For as little as £9.90 you can buy this futuristic looking, beautifully designed and elegant device in high gloss black that is both stylish and compact.

Newer, more expensive and complex copies have now arrived but who needs things like a meter for the charge when a simple ‘on charge’ light and ‘fully charged’ light will suffice. Just more to go wrong and all that.

From one of the Far East’s foremost manufacturers I have so far imported over 10,000 units in lots of a 1000 by sea and sometimes, because of high demand, by (expensive) air.

With a retail price of up to £29.99 this is a high margin, fast seller. Jeff Scowen’s AP Magic Charger is the UK’s original and without doubt still the best.

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Good morning All,

All these offers are now available to order and view online. All are at cost or below. Prices may change at any time and are ex-VAT. View my website for live information and full ordering details.

• 35mm CAMERAS
  
• Olympus MD3 Autofocus  £9.90 (Min order qty 6)
• Samsung Fino 130XL Zoom 38-130 zoom autofocus  £29.90  (Min order qty 6)
• Samsung Vega 170 Zoom 38-170 zoom autofocus, quartz databack  £39.90  (Min order qty 6)

• KODAK CARTRIDGES
• Combo colour & black ink 3947074  £10.90
• Colour ink 3947066  £6.49
• Black ink  3947058  £4.49

• AP DIGITAL CAMERA BATTERIES
• Canon NB4L  £2.49
• Canon BP511  £3.49
  
• Canon NB2L  £3.49
• Casio NP40   £2.99
• Fuji NP50   £2.99
• Fuji NP65   £2.99
• Olympus Li60B  £2.99
• Panasonic S006  £2.99
• Panasonic S007  £2.99
• Panasonic S008  £3.49
• Panasonic BCF10  £8.49
• Samsung SLB-10A  £3.49

• BINOCULARS & MONOCULARS
  
• Visionary CX 8×21  £4.99
• Visionary CX 10×25  £5.90
• Visionary EX 8×21  £7.99
• Visionary TX 8×30  £14.99
• Visionary TX 10×30  £15.99
• Visionary B4 Zoom 8-20×50  £23.90
• Visionary U 8×30  £26.47
• Visionary 8×21 Monocular  £1.99
• Opticron 8×25 Trailfinder green  £24.49

• UNIROSS RECHARGEABLES
  
• Solar charger  £14.99
• C Converters (2) +2 AA multi use batteries  £1.99
• D Converters (2) +2 AA multi use batteries  £1.99
  
• Panasonic S007 digital camera battery  £2.99 (Min order qty 10)

• MINI-LAB PAPER
  
• Kodak 30.5×9 (10″) Edge lustre paper  £19.99 (Min order qty 2)
• 20.3×90 (8″) CA gloss paper  £20.90 (Min order qty 2)
  
  
• INKJET PAPER
  
• Olmec 275g cotton fine art A4 (50)  £12.90
  
• Olmec 275g cotton fine art A3 (50)  £24.90
• Olmec 24″x30m satin roll  £34.90
• Pro Grade (Olmec) 119g A4 matt (100)  £3.49 (Min order qty 10)
• Pro Grade (Olmec) 229g A4 matt (50)  £5.99 (Min order qty 10)
• Pro Grade (Olmec) 269g A4 double-sided gloss (20)  £6.49 (Min order qty 10)

• HAMA REMOTE RELEASES
• Canon CA-2  £9.99
• SO-1  £8.69
• PA-1  £5.99
• Universal  £4.29

• SONY PASSPORT MEDIA
  
• UPC X46   £119.90
• UPC 2046  £44.90

• FRAMES
• Carrington traditional wooden frames  Now less than1/2 price! (Min order qty 6 of 1 line)
  • Windsor Brown 6×4  1.57   
    Windsor Brown 7×5  1.79   
    Windsor Brown 8×6  £1.93   
    Windsor Brown 10×8  £2.38   
    Windsor Brown  12×10  £2.69   
    Kemble Gold 7×5  £1.03
    Kemble Gold 12×10  £1.79
    Kemble Silver7×5  £1.03
    Burford 6×4  £1.21   
    Avebury Gold 7×5  £1.35        
    Avebury Gold 12×10  £2.25
    Stanmore 10×8  1.79   
    Stanmore 12×10  £2.25   
    Kemble Brown 6×4  £0.89 
    Kemble Brown 7×5  £1.03  
    Kemble Brown 12×10  £1.79   
    Kemble Brown A4  £1.57 
    Kemble Black 6×4  £0.89 
    Kemble Black 12×10  £1.79
• Kenro Reveal Aluminum frames  Now less than1/2 price!
  
  • 8×6  £2.20 
    10×8  £2.65 
• Polaroid Digital frame 7″ with integral weather station  £19.99
• Kodak Multi-media Digital frame 10″ touchscreen  £69.90

• MISCELLANEOUS
• Digicover 2.5″ or 2.8″ or 3.0″ or 3.5″ Camera screen protectors  £2.49 (Min order qty 10 of 1 line)
• Praktica digital keyring  £5.99 (Min order qty 12)
• P5-90 SHG video tape  £1.99 (Min order qty 20)
• AP UV 46mm filter Japanese  £1.49 (Min order qty 20)
• Hama DF9 or DF12 or DF30 35mm camera pouch  £0.49
• Hahnel Ultima one-make charger (Mark II with USB ) Pentax or Casio or Fuji  £17.99
• Energizer Rechargeable 9v 175  £3.49

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• To clear lines at or below cost
• Polaroid Pogo mobile photo printer £14.99 in 6s
• Polaroid 2 instant digital camera with printer £99.90
• 1/2 price Carrington traditional wooden frames
• 1/2 price Kenro Reveal aluminum frames
• Hama remote releases
• Polaroid 7″ digital frame with integral weather station £19.90
• Kodak 7″ digital frame £32.90, 10″ multi-media digital frame £74.90

• 100s more new price reductions
  
• Most Silicon Power cards and readers
• All XD cards: 1gb £8.90, 2gb £11.90 in 10s
  
• All AgfaPhoto cleaning products
• Panasonic AA Power alkaline £0.54, X-Treme £0.84 and Evoia Digital £1.69 in 120s
• Uniross AA 2700 (4) £4.49 in 30s
• All Visionary and Opticron binoculars
• All Energizer rechargeable batteries and chargers
  
• Some Fuji pro film
• Most Hama tripods and pouches
• All Led-Lenser torches
• All Olympus and Samsung 35mm cameras
  

• New lines
• Uniross Fast 1 hour charger  +4xAA 2700 £14.85 in 6s, no batteries £10.60 in 6s (due shortly)

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The Uniross story is a fascinating one of innovations and first to market products. You can read about this elsewhere in this issue.
Jeff Scowen has long been associated with this world brand with them consistently being Uniross’ number one photo-imaging wholesaler. It therefore comes as no surprise that Uniross should now choose Jeff Scowen as their photo-imaging wholesaler. This effectively means that all Uniross products can now be purchased form Jeff Scowen at Uniross direct prices. This means much lower prices. Combining a new aggressive pricing policy from Uniross with this direct pricing effectively gives you the customer prices on average 25% lower. Examples of this include the popular Li-40B that fits many cameras at just £3.50, the award winning 2700 AAs 4 pack at £4.85 and the ultra intelligent Smart 2700 charger and 4 batteries at only £9.78.
New products to follow later in the month include a futuristic 1 hour charger and a budget 2700 charger. Many new digital camera and camcorder batteries are also on their way with Uniross now delivering faster to market battery replacements.
Let’s also remember that Uniross is the green battery manufacturer with their credentials not being tainted by offering any one-use throw away batteries. That’s why the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) chose Uniross as a partner.
Whilst some rechargeable battery manufacturers have downgraded their AA capacity (eg Duracell down to 2450mAh) or stay at a lower capacity (eg Energizer also at 2450mAh) Uniross produce continue to produce the best and finest high capacity AA at 2700 mAh. This was proved by them winning the Gadget Show’s comparison test of leading brands. We remind you also that own brand 2700/2800s and others are probably not of this stated capacity they do not have Uniross’ reputation to maintain; the scope for exaggeration in testing very much still exists.
When you sell your customers Uniross you are really selling the world’s most recognised rechargeable brand and often now at a price below the others. Jeff Scowen is ready to serve you with all of Uniross’ photo products including 150 digital camera and camcorder batteries and tens of thousands of pounds worth of other in-stock products.
Order online at www.jspwholesale.co.uk or by phone on 0844 855 3245 and 07500 897930 or by email at sales@jspwholesale.co.uk

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UNIROSS is still known by many as the rechargeable brand.

UNIROSS started life in Bristol in 1968 making industrial rechargeable batteries.

In the 1980’s and 1990’s Uniross started to produce more ‘retail friendly’ ranges for every day use in more consumer friendly packaging (better card designs and information and clam pack.

Most retailers were having some success with Uniross AA Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd) 800mAh batteries in a small market These early developments helped lift the image of the rechargeable battery from being a garage product to a more domestic appliance and into the larger market of the general domestic consumer.

The introduction of the 1300mAh Ni-MH in AA size in the 90’s was a revolution for retail at this time, a good-better strategy started to emerge and sales started to increase. Uniross started to drive the market by introducing on-pack promotions and the market started to grow. A while later (2002) saw the launch of the 1700mAh AA in the UK, again a first from Uniross. Then the 2000mAh AA followed shortly afterwards in 2003. This was just as the digital camera was hitting the mass market in UK and most of these cameras were using mainly AA cells.

This now gave many more consumers first hand experience of how superior rechargeable batteries were in powering ‘high drain’ appliances. They far surpassed ‘ordinary’ alkaline batteries in the number of shots that could be achieved, and you could recharge them up to 1000 times – almost too much to believe!

In 2006 Uniross launched the AA 2700mAh, still the highest performance rechargeable AA battery available today and recently awarded ‘Best Rechargeable battery’ by Channel 5’s The Gadget Show.  

2006 UNIROSS also saw the start of an increase in the range of Lithium camera and camcorder rechargeable batteries to give more compatibility and consumer choice as digital cameras became more Lithium battery dependent. By this time Uniross had moved to a central European HQ just outside Paris and expanded world wide to places like China, India, Australia, South Africa and the US, buying several companies along the way.

In 2007 Uniross was the first battery company to launch a pre-charged, ready-to-use rechargeable battery in the UK – Now known as ‘Ultra’ – using Hybrio® technology.

Because of the environmentally benefits of the rechargeable battery, Uniross were also the only battery brand to have been endorsed by the biggest environmental organisation (the World Wildlife Fund) and have carried the WWF logo on their packs.

Then a combination of massive raw material cost increases for Nickel (250% increase at one point) poor exchange rates and poor performing company acquisitions led to a re-financing of the Uniross business in 2009. It was the huge Eveready Industries India Ltd that saw the opportunity and potential and invested in the Uniross global business in mid 2009. Thanks to Eveready Industries, Uniross has increased it’s product portfolio to include an extended range of rechargeable and non rechargeable batteries, over 120 digital camera and camcorder Lithium batteries, AA Lithium primary batteries, an entire range of the latest (EUP) European Directive compatible Power supplies, a full range of LED torches and more Product Development to follow, including 5 new battery chargers due for launch in Summer/Autumn 2010

A new Uniross strategy is to increase their availability in the UK and Ireland markets by working closely with a limited number of distributors. They are:

Supreme Imports, Anand International, Peat wholesale (Ireland only) and Jeff Scowen (for the Photographic and imaging market).

Jeff Scowen in particular has been for many years virtually a Uniross only wholesaler of rechargeables and thereby synonymous with the brand. They stock all of the photographic and imaging products including every one of the growing 150 range of Uniross digital camera and camcorder batteries. These distributors cover the whole UK and Ireland market, and Uniross are proud to be associated with all of them.

Specially prepared to support the photographic market, Uniross have the very latest battery compatibility brochure, which features over 8,000 cameras and camcorders. This is available to all UK retailers and e-tailers in paper and PDF form and updated regularly. If you want one, please contact your battery distributor or Uniross directly. The Uniross ‘Battery Finder’, which allows you to search for the right battery by brand and make of the camera, will also feature on the new look Uniross website, which is being re-launched in September 2010.

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Here are some of the highlights from my expanding range and reducing prices:

• Large reductions on the whole of my Panasonic batteries range. As an example you can now buy a AA 4 pack alkaline for just £0.59.

• Included now in my extensive range of Silicon Power memory cards are the new Full HD Video cards. Together with the whole range these have been recently reduced so that the 8gb for example is only £11.75.

• More Kodak and Energizer batteries have now been added to the range.

• Work envelopes and wallets are now back in stock as are both 1gb & 2gb XD cards and a new line: Fuji Photodisc CDs.

• Soon into stock will be a range of 100s of storage products from the UK’s leading supplier Arrowfile. Jeff Scowen has recently been appointed as their sole UK wholesaler to the trade. More on this later.

• Many new Uniross batteries for digital cameras and camcorders are now in with more to follow together with big price reductions across the range.

View my website to see all this and more. Thanks.

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You would expect me to say that my new website is something special…Well here’s the proof:

‘Blisteringly fast. I have never used a site, retail or consumer, with such a quick response’
Brian Callow, Castle Cameras, Bournemouth

‘What a freshing change, an ordering web site that’s fast and simple to navigate. I use the major manufacturers sites for ordering and find them slow and ponderous in comparison. Even better, Jeff’s site automatically remembers what you order in ‘My Favourites’  Try it soon: It’s clear and precise!’
Alan Wilks, Station Cameras, Reading

‘This way of ordering is cutting edge. Order at a time to suit you – not just between 9am and 5pm. Real time stock information – so you know the item is in stock at the time of ordering. Fast checkout, with card payment no missing settlement discounts now.  Very fast delivery with the invoice emailed direct to your desk. Well done Jeff’.
John O’Shea, Discount Films Direct, Nottingham

‘Hi Jeff, just to let you know how quick and efficient we are finding your new website. It must be saving us hours every month. Any member of staff can complete an order in just a few minutes. Thanks again.’
Andrew S, London Camera Exchange, Taunton

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Hot News!
The weather’s getting warmer, the government’s looking good and we’re not in the Euro, so here we go with better times….

As I am now confident that all my new systems work sufficiently welI, I have decided to re-instate my popular full back page advertising in the excellent Pixel trade magazine. Pixel have also agreed to produce and publish a feature on the fascinating Jeff Scowen changes which have produced a unique business model that has completely transformed in just 3 months a 25 year old business model into the most advanced and integrated set-up in the trade. Original and even more exciting projects are in development as a result of these changes: More news to follow over the coming weeks and months

New Products
‘Optimised for video usage’, the new Silicon Power Full HD Video SDHC cards are launched this week to compliment Silicon Power’s comprehensive range of 200x CF, MS, SD, SDHC, SD Micro and SD Mini cards.
Available in 4gb, 8gb 16gb and 32gb these cards are superbly packaged in gold and red (see attached or my website home page) and have SP’s famous Lifetime Warranty.
I have visited SP’s factory and seen first hand the absolute precision in the manufacture of their cards. As a result they are amongst the world’s most reliable cards.
Jeff Scowen is the UK’s Official Sole Distributor of Silicon Power flash memory.

This week’s featured product in the fantastic Agfaphoto Cleaning Range is the unique the Digital Cleaning kit (see attached)
Agfaphoto’s comprehensive Digital Cleaning kit has been developed to keep your customer’s photographic equipment in pristine condition. The cleaning liquid removes dirt, grease and fingerprints from the lens and case and is supplemented by 10 dry cloths and 3 pairs of wet/dry wipes. The 100% scratch free swabs are to clean all recesses. The kit also has a blower brush, plus micro fibre cloth 150×150mm cloth for a final buffering. The dry cloths can as well be used for this purpose.
Your customers can now keep their investments in top condition with this internationally tested Agfaphoto product. Only £6.89+VAT each trade.
View my website www.jspwholesale.co.uk to see and order this kit plus the rest of the 13 product range.

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This week’s featured Agfaphoto cleaning product is the unique Multi-Media Cleaning kit

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In the words of someone famous (or was it a pop group?) ‘Things can only can better’
Whoever says that this year has been good is either very lucky or probably just being optimistic…Comments such as ‘tough’ and ‘difficult’ are most certainly understatements about what we have all had to injure in recent times.

But ever the eternal optimistic I do however predict much better times ahead. Warmer weather, greener trees and longer days herald the perennial good times ahead.

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