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Whats something that is only worth getting the expensive version of? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 6 months ago by ericbomb to c/[email protected]

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I grew up with $20 walmart blenders, and hated anything that required a blender.

Recently bought a ninja and there is no going back. I'll never use a crappy blender again.

Anything else like that?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For me it's toner for printers: I have a Brother laser printer at home that is not heavily used but at least once a week. I thought I'd save some money when I bought some cheap ass toner from Amazon that cost about half of what a original Brother toner costs and promised something like double the capacity.

Oh boy... I had the worst mildly infuriating two years of printing you could imagine: always disappointed of the printing quality but not THAT disappointed to replace this shitty but still at 2/3 capacity toner. I paid money for that toner so I'd squeeze every last page of shitty quality prints out of this fucking toner!

Last week I gave up and bought an original Brother toner and it's a bliss. 🙄

[–] 44Harmony 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I find that surprising. I've bought knock off toner on Amazon for both brother and cannon printers, and it's great. No issues whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm maybe I had bad luck but I won't dare to try again because the experience was so bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Some knock-offs use low quality ingredients, which can break your printer after long use.

But certainly not all of them. The absolute cheapest ones are the worst, but slightly more expensive ones are usually fine and still way cheaper than the official cartridges.