One thing I haven't seen anyone discuss yet:

Would you rather pay $150 for the printer and $30 for ink carts, or $350 for
the printer and $8 for ink?

One look at companies like HP and Epson and you know they aren't making a
total mint. You guys act like these companies forced you to buy their
printers. They've just come to realize that the most effective way for them
to sell and attempt to make a profit is to be a loss leader on the actual
printers and make it up with the ink carts. Nothing wrong with that model.
It's exactly the same model as any buy now, pay later system.

How many people do you think would buy a $350 printer when there was just as
good of a printer sitting right next to it for $99? Not enough for that
company to stay in business...

--Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@CLEAR.NET.NZ>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [OT]:Refilling HP smart cartridges


> > They are not robbers, they have found a legal loophole in customer
> > rights laws (the ones that oblige them to publish prices in ads and
stand
> > by them etc.), and are happily grazing in that pasture. Have been for a
> > while now.
>
>
> They are robbers. But some forms of robbery is legal. In some countries
> anyway. Arguably not here.
> I appreciate well the need to be able to make a fair profit. And the right
> to make an unfair one if the law allows. And the right of the consumer to
> bypass the unfair methods if the law allows. Fun for all ! :-)
>
>
>
>     RM
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