In Wal-Mart the other day, I was looking at printer ink when I came across an HP printer for $39.97 – almost $2 less than the cost of the ink that comes with it. I was tempted to buy two.
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March 3, 2016 at 1:06 pm
The wonderful life of retail 😉
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March 4, 2016 at 11:19 am
Yep. 🙂
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March 3, 2016 at 8:10 am
It’s similar to Amazon selling the Kindle for a low price and counting on us buying tons of book. I showed them…not.
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March 4, 2016 at 11:18 am
Oooh, boy. I wish Kobo would do that here in Canada. E-readers are expensive!!
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March 4, 2016 at 11:19 am
But you have healthcare 🙂 And no Donald Trump.
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March 4, 2016 at 11:22 am
Yeah, but we still have hospital waiting rooms where it’s nice to spend the hours reading, and …okay, you got me on the Drumpf. 😛
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March 4, 2016 at 11:37 am
We have those too. And we still have Drumpf…not the hunky PM that you guys ended up with 🙂
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March 4, 2016 at 11:48 am
He’s so dreamy!! hehe
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March 3, 2016 at 6:07 am
I think bull semen is the most expensive fluid you can buy (but it would make the pages stick together on your manuscript).
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March 3, 2016 at 7:22 am
Hahaha! Ewww!
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March 2, 2016 at 8:54 pm
I have actually done that. Kept buying a cheap printer instead of the ink. I would donate the “old” printer each time. Didn’t make sense to me but it was considerably cheaper – so when in Rome…
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March 2, 2016 at 9:15 pm
Precisely.
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March 2, 2016 at 12:02 pm
When Gillette started selling blades for safety razors, they would give the razor away, figuring they would make a fortune on blades. I think H-P is doing the same thing; Mary just bought ink for our printer that cost more than the printer did…
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March 2, 2016 at 8:34 pm
Yep, I can believe it. Razors are another out-of-this-world expense.
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March 2, 2016 at 9:46 pm
It’s why I grew a beard.
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March 2, 2016 at 10:13 pm
Understandable.
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March 2, 2016 at 11:36 am
http://finallyawriter.com/2016/03/02/1-liner-wednesday/
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March 2, 2016 at 11:36 am
And that is exactly why we stopped owning an HP and started buying ink off the internet. The prices are outrageous.
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March 2, 2016 at 8:30 pm
It seems to be that way with every company.
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March 3, 2016 at 11:31 am
You’re right, but one thing we noticed with the HPs we owned, was that they wouldn’t take refilled cartridges which are much cheaper to buy. Traded it for a Canon and haven’t had that problem since, saving us a ton on ink costs.
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March 2, 2016 at 9:47 am
That’s just nuts! But now I understand thanks to Paul’s explanation. *smdh*
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March 2, 2016 at 8:28 pm
Makes sense, eh? 🙂
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March 2, 2016 at 9:31 pm
yeah, in a strange, twisted way.. lol
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March 2, 2016 at 8:08 am
I had seen something the other day that broke down the cost of other liquids (per gallon) compared to gasoline. If I remember correctly, printer ink runs about $500.00 a gallon. Why don’t they just give printers away for free?
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March 2, 2016 at 8:15 pm
They practically do. 😛 It’s like when you compare the cost of bottled water to gasoline. Ridiculous.
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March 2, 2016 at 7:55 am
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Ah reminds me of retail when the clearance price is the same as the sale price.
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March 2, 2016 at 8:08 pm
A rose by any other name, eh? hehe
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March 2, 2016 at 7:43 am
We hardly ever buy ink! We put stuff on thumb drives, print them elsewhere 90% of the time. It’s much cheaper. Makes me wonder what kinda deals the libraries, schools, and universities get, to charge me only a quarter a page?
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March 2, 2016 at 8:06 pm
I have to check the library – I want to get my manuscript printed. It’s more than $5o at Staples.
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March 2, 2016 at 8:52 pm
Phew.
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March 2, 2016 at 8:55 pm
Yeah.
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March 2, 2016 at 4:21 am
Kodak ink is always cheapest, I’ve found. I very nearly bought a wireless, mobile device printer for £30, but I resisted the temptation.
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March 2, 2016 at 8:05 pm
My new one will apparently print from anything. It even comes with its own email address, so if I’m out of the country and want to send a document home, voila! 😛
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March 3, 2016 at 2:49 am
Ooh, fancy!
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March 3, 2016 at 7:22 am
Right?
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March 2, 2016 at 2:21 am
It is insane how much we pay for ink. My daughter says it is the most expensive fluid on earth!
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March 2, 2016 at 8:03 pm
I can believe that!
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March 2, 2016 at 2:18 am
Tell me about it! Drives me nuts – I have to take the empty box to the shop to make sure I get the right one.
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March 2, 2016 at 8:02 pm
Haha! Yeah, I always make sure I have the number written down. They’re all so similar!
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March 2, 2016 at 2:15 am
Ahhh, the old printer trick eh? You might not believe this but we actually studied that in B-school – how and why they do that weird pricing thingy. It turns out that printer technology (the dot matrix and line printers) have become so ubiquitous that there are no longer any proprietary elements – which basically means they have become a commodity – a good or service that is only distinguishable from the competition by price. So the mfg sell them for the absolute minimum price. The ink has become the differentiator between species of printer. So they make the ink better and better and more expensive and make enough profit to support their printer business. The printers do NOT come with a “normal” ink cartridge – it is either a miniature mutation of the real thing or a real cartridge with just a bit of ink in each color. Either way the ink that comes with the printer is worth only pennies. If you buy a new printer, you might as well by an ink cartridge too because you will need one within days. There’s thousands and thousands of them – all different cartridges and colors.
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March 2, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Ah well. Even if I don’t get the same yield out of these ink cartridges, I needed a new printer anyway. The machine takes XL cartridges, so that’s a plus. It’s going to cost me more than $50 to print my 750 page manuscript at Staples. It should be less than that on this printer. And my son works at HP printer support, so I have that in-house. 😀
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March 2, 2016 at 8:29 pm
If you have an “in” with a printer mfg, you are ahead of most of us.
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March 2, 2016 at 8:30 pm
Just the call centre, but still. Free troubleshooting.
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