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HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers
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this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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I hope this is sarcastic or a bot.
It's not. I've met plenty of people like him/her. You pay for convenience and "it just works" because the only alternative they know is the likes of cannon or worse.
Why would they pay 5x the price for brother, it still needs ink! It's hard to convince someone where their entire life they never had a good printer.
This printer was paid for by my employer in 2017. I would have never spent 250€ on a printer. And I often did not use it because it had run out of ink and I was too lazy or occupied to take the 5 minutes to order it. So now this is taken care of.
It is also the best printer I have ever had and the longest living. But it is also the first one that cost more than 50€ so the reason might lie there.
I had printers with 5 milion prints. It was old hp 506 (50X series for sure). We bought 60 of them. 5 years on and i think 3 or 4 broke down? We weren't even using genuine ink either.
They costed £230 +£30 for 5 year warranty.