Comment on HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies

DeadNinja@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because they sell the printers at loss, expecting you to buy their overpriced ink, continually earning them money for years.

  Sounds like a subscription to be honest.

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  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know we assume they’re following the “razor blade” model but I actually find it hard to believe the printers are sold at a loss given how cheap it is to produce at this point.

    Unless by “loss” we’re saying “less than HP thought it could extract.”

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re absolutely not producing them at a loss. The loss is only in their projections and expectations to price gouge their customers.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I just looked. You can get an HP Deskjet on Amazon for $40. They are producing those at a loss and expecting people to pay for their bullshit ink subscriptions.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They want to make it a subscription that starts automatically when you buy the printer. No payment or the linked credit card expires, no more printing. Keep on paying for that subscription each month even if you don’t print a single page.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They literally have that already.

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      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And they’re fuming because they can’t force this down the throat of every “bad investments”. Not yet anyway.

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    • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here was I, thinking printers couldn’t get worse

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• RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The real question here is where are the Chinese printers?! I mean, it’s a big market, why aren’t they getting into it?

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Xiaomi makes a couple of expensive standard inkjets, but mostly they make photo printers. That’s the only one I can think of.

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