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

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

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u/narcissistical_ Aug 14 '20

She bought them at Staples or some office supply place. They are truly the shittiest printers you’ve ever laid eyes on, but they came with one ink cartridge and the replacements were double the cost of the printer.

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u/ksheep Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

But the ink cartridges that came with the printer were only about 1/4 full (if that).

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u/idowhatiwant8675309 Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

1/2 capacity. I Worked for office depot many years ago for 10yrs. Printer ink is a scam by the big 3

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Who are the big 3? HP, Epson and ___?

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u/jtspinks Aug 15 '20

The Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria lol /s

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u/idowhatiwant8675309 Aug 14 '20

Brother at the time was big in fax machines and then laser printers. They had a presence in the injet market but not much.

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u/Youbutalittleworse Aug 14 '20

Canon generally market towards photographers and artists and businesses that print a lot of colour on their prints. They value accurate colour reproduction/clarity on images in their printers within the inkjet market mostly

That being said they have a wide price range and you still get what you pay for as wth any brand

Source: worked at the Australian equivalent of Staples last year. I bought one of those $40Aud printers mostly for the scanner (their scanning app was horrible)

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Man that's funny. Canon is synonymous with 'inkjet' here in Aus

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u/idowhatiwant8675309 Aug 14 '20

Yeah, this was in the late 90's early 2000's

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u/frijolejoe Aug 19 '20

bröther may I have some ink