Printers are just another money making scam

United States
August 3, 2009 8:47pm CST
Where are all the people who want to take back our rights, and get rid of monopoly's? I for one am fed up with the corporate America way of stealing our hard earned money. I used to buy ink refill kits for $14 and refill my cartridges at least 6 times before I had to buy a new cartridge at $56. I live on ssi because I am disabled to much for high paying work anymore, but now I have driven a 50 mile radius to find someone who sells refill ink kits, but have not found any more. Wal mart and Kmart used to sell the kits, and now they wont get any more in, because the crybabies selling printers don't want us to be able to refill them anymore and want all stores to stop carrying the kits. I call this a monopoly and I have decided to start a refiling business. Even though I will make a decent living, I still don't like bib business telling me what I can and Can't do with products I paid for. So I will take the bull by the horns and beat them at their own game, I will pay people for their used cartridges, and refill them and sell them slightly more then it cost to do. I just want people to have the right to get what they pay for, and will refill them for Charity's so they don't have to spend good money on these scams. The big corporations even have the gall to install chips that shut the printer down when one color shows low volume, when in fact they still have several hundred pages the could print. This is just part of the problem in this world. BIG CORPORATE AMERICA CONTROLLING US!
1 response
• Philippines
4 Aug 09
I too are tired of buying genuine ink in the cases of my HP inkjet. I tried to refil my cartridges with the commercialized refill ink. Then, my printer works for almost 6 months. When i opt for the second refill. My printer would not accept it and worse the power button could not be turn on. It stop and what a waste of refill ink. The cost of genuine ink is more than $25 dollar wherein to refill cost me $2.00. Then, if i have to take my printer to repair shop it will cost me $10 which i do not like to pursue. my printer is HP deskjet 960C which is now obsolete in the market. I plan to buy new printer which i wish would not give me enough headache. I think greedy company like HP even sued company who offers refilling ink and even warn their customers not to buy it. as it would damge the copper or the printer itself as the chemicals used is not suited for HP printer. A lot HP profits came from ink. Which would not be a surprise they want a sole monopoly of the ink business..Maybe, that is the reason my printer shutdown when they detect i am using other ink it is program in the printer to reject it..which really deprive a customer to save on a budget..