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October 12, 2011 04:58 pm GMT
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HP Flails Further Into Irrationality By Offering Printer Spam
Now that HP has sufficiently disgraced the vision of Mssrs. Hewlett and Packard, they continued to gyrate wildly into odd business that no one wants. To wit: in a joint press release with Cond Nast, the company is offering two odd consumer-facing propositions. First, they're going to charge you $5.99-$10 a month to subscribe to a replacement ink service, called Instant Ink. When your printer runs low, it will send a message to Meg Whitman who will personally ship you a new cartridge. Considering ink cartridges already contain less than $5.99 of ink and parts, it's a bum deal all around but, also considering HP jacks the prices up on ink enormously, I suppose if you're mad about printing this may work out. Oddly, I don't see anyone spending $60-$120 on ink cartridges per printer per year (unless HP jacks up prices even more).Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/jWIMGzK2D-c/
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