That is all.

In past years, most standard inkjet printers that you bought did normally come with only around 30% ink supplied. This was to cut costs by the manufacturer, not something shifty the retailer had done.

MFD Printers may come with 100% ink but, again, it depends on the manufacturer. HP, on the other hand, normally sell ALL their printers now with FULL ink. On the other hand, they don’t say on the boxes that it’s full ink, so there’s no way of knowing either way.

So Staples may have just not been up on their products or just following an old script.

Recently purchased a HP MFD in Australia, had exactly the same script thrown at me, but a senior staff member corrected the monkeys and told them the HPs now come with full ink.

So I went to Staples here and bought an HP 1000 Laserjet printer that just prints in black. They told me the same as they told you, that the toner cartridge wouldn’t last long, but I didn’t buy another one.

Set it up and put the settings on economy mode as all I print is text for the most part and it still reads well, I’ve printed well over a thousand pages and it’s still on that first cartridge. I bought it on 9/8/2003 and haven’t paid a penny more for all my printing since.

It’s a damn fine machine, I’ll never buy another fucking ink jet.

Oh, and if I want to steal something off of your blog you can bet your butt that I will. Like me you have not had an original thought in a long time, you’ve borrowed them from others.

She’s a nice trusting lady though – can’t understand how they conned you Angry!

Go on, smack yourself for being a muppet. Then go find the spotty oik who lied to you and introduce him to the other face of “customer relations” i.e. a boot up the jacksie.

GH

Second mistake was not to buy an Epson. You can then buy compatible cartridges at £22 for 12. Yes twelve.

I used to work at the Epson manufacturing plant in Telford, and they changed production of their printers to the Phillipines where labour is cheap and changed the entire plant over to Ink Cartridge Manufacturing because they can make a cartridge for about 27p each and sell it as a genuine Epson cartridge for £27. Bargain.

But then, you buy Macs…

You’re a fuckwit, you got scammed!

Have you also got payment protection on your loan, mobile phone insurance (both from the company that sold you each) and 27 bars of half price Dairy Milk from WH Smith? (all sold in a “honest guv, you need this, I’m doing you a favour” type of way)

Fair play to the power of the cross sale technique

Or give them a bit of a laugh and use your old dot matrix. That will give it pride of place the museum, along with letters written in Crayola or on tablets of stone.