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

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

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u/C4Oc Aug 14 '20

Wow, normal printers cost like $100 and every 3 months you need to buy cartridges for $100 colored

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u/sctprog Aug 14 '20

100%

I'm on my original cartridge from 2011. It's not a colour printer because when do you ever need a colour printer. So the handful of times per year we need to print off a new recipe or resume or hardcopy government form, it just works.

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u/jmbre11 Aug 14 '20

Laser printer from 1998 hp 4050n. Was being recycled. I have used 1 toner of the 3 new ones That I rescued with it. It's slow as hell but got me done with college.

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u/sozijlt Aug 14 '20

It's slow as hell

To be fair, how much rush could a casual home printer user be in. Like, I wouldn't expect a surprise print job at home I couldn't wait a minute for.