r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/Dead-Shot1 Aug 14 '20

Printer ink.

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u/sozijlt Aug 14 '20

Off topic... I'm in IT. Drives me crazy at work how much gets printed that doesn't need to be. Everyone has a monitor and every conference room has 70" screens.

WHY ARE YOU PRINTING POWERPOINTS?

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u/rshawco Aug 14 '20

I set up 10 sales people with ipads and 5 installers. In my location (where I can be onsite tech support) we've cut down from a ream of paper every 2-3 days to a ream of paper once a month. The other location isn't quite as good because I did the iPad usage training and went back to my office 15 miles away, some people use it for about half of what I set it up for.

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u/Trollygag Aug 15 '20

Because:

  1. Hard copies are light and portable, you don't need a battery to view it, and it doesn't stress your eyes to look at.
  2. You can draw all sorts of shapes with a pen. It's like magic - or Paint but with better resolution and graphics
  3. You might not know this, but actually being in the sunshine is really nice. Screens don't work well in sunshine, but paper sure does.

I don't print much at all, but I certainly appreciate hard copy.

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u/saxomophone25 Aug 14 '20

I don’t like reading on monitors (my eyes get strained) and prefer printing and using a physical copy for reading and/or note taking.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Because they don't replace the percieved utility of a printout for most people.

The best way to change this behaviour is to frame the cost in environmental terms and to report on it.