After months of work, Lens Lenders is pleased to announce that we have received new financing to purchase more lenses. This will allow us to increase the number of lenses in our inventory and add new lenses to our catalogue to serve the many requests that we receive. We are working on our new inventory plan and welcome you to be a part of it by sending a lens request through
this form. Suggestions from photographers like you will help to ensure we meet as many of our customers needs as possible.
Having enough lenses to keep up with customer demand is one of our largest challenges. Our purchasing budget is always caught between the gaps in our lens rental catalogue and the need for more copies of the lenses we already rent.
This new financing will give us a boost above our normal purchase budget to add lenses that we haven't had before. Input from customers through our
survey and
lens request forms has been very valuable in planning our financing needs and presenting to the bank the demand for more lenses. We regularly receive requests to expand into other lens brands such as Olympus, Pentax and Sony. We would love to satisfy everyone, but we are firstly a business and our decisions must be made with a mind to sales and paying the bills. At present, we are missing lens models in our
Canon and
Nikon rental catalogues and need more of the lenses that are currently on our shelves.
This is an exciting and risky time for Lens Lenders. This new loan is the first, large cash input into the business since we began. We're excited that we will be able to say "yes" to many of the "do you have ..." requests that we receive. It's also a risk, just as any loan is. We've done our research, listened to customers and done analysis after analysis in our spreadsheets. I know I'll be watching the order screen intensely for that first rental when the new equipment goes live on the
website.