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[challenge entry] Retail Parks - you know, for cunts.

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(I helped save b3ta! MontyyouterribleCUNT I gave Jeremy Kyle cancer, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 12:52, archived)
# Hahahahahahaha
We do that all the time
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 12:53, archived)
# I bought my printer from there
it was the cheapest thing I could find that I could get immediately

yay!

sadly, it costs more for the ink than the actual printer, but it's ok, I get the ink cheaper at asda instead

oh, and they didn't even try to sell me an extended warranty when I got the printer.

how queer.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 12:54, archived)
# Get ink from ebay
/barbie's tip of the day
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 12:54, archived)
# last time I got a refilled ink
I had a printer commit hari-kiri

it knew, man! it knew!

then it went flying down the stairs

:D

a few times

fucking canons "LOL, THE INK'S DRIED OUT, YOU NEED A NEW PART COSTING £35 hahah the printer costs £30 HAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

etc
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 12:57, archived)
# :D
I hate printers. I want to hurt them.
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 12:58, archived)
# this, but the other way round
(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:02, archived)
# Blimey I remember those days
New Lexmark printer: £30 with brand new cartridges.
New cartridge costs: £45 for black and colour.
(I helped save b3ta! Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 12:59, archived)
# Racist
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:00, archived)
# Pfft
(I helped save b3ta! Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:00, archived)
# yes, but this isn't even the ink cartridge
this is a single small plastic assembly with the print head

more expensive than replacing the printer, which would never fucking load in paper properly anyway, bah!

anyway, this cheap nasty HP has the best output I've seen on a kiddies toy so it'll do, until it falls apart and bursts into flames

I'd still be using my lexmark but its guts started falling out, so I've been without scanner for some time
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:03, archived)
# Same with toner
Normal cartridges: £30-45 each colour
From eBay: £30 for a set direct from the manufacturer.
Saves me a small fortune.
(I helped save b3ta! Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 12:58, archived)
# You actually hurt the companies if you buy a new printer when the ink runs out, instead of buying ink
the margins are somewhat marginal
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 12:59, archived)
# Not so much with a full colour laser
Gets a little expensive buying a new printer when the toner cartridges are so cheap :P
(I helped save b3ta! Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:01, archived)
# yeah, but I was skint and needed a printer *right-now* tm
really I'd like a nice A3 MFD with all the funky features

but such things require competant periodic maintenance and that

and they cost £money :)
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:04, archived)
# Loss leaders are a double-edged sword
I seem to remember there was a euro-law coming in where companies have to accept their old products for recycling. That might ease the practice a bit, printers could just be seen as bulky recyclable ink containers.

(I helped save b3ta! fuscous, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:09, archived)
# "We've taken all the returns to the 'recycling plant'" *snigger* "the one by the port, well, in the port, what? that large ship next to it? don't know anything about that" *snigger* "anyway, can we have our carbon neutrality bonus money now please"
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:13, archived)
# what was that splashing noise?
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:14, archived)
# that was carbon, being neutralised :)
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:24, archived)
# urgh still waiting on those other cunts at currys getting back to me about my ps3
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:02, archived)
# hahahahhaaha, that sounds like a familiar bit of shopping practice :D
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:05, archived)
# Isn't it Comet who won't sell you something you unless you give them your address?
I seem to remember coming to an impasse with assistants there a few times. "Look, I'm paying cash, why would you need my address?"
(I helped save b3ta! fuscous, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:13, archived)
# If it's a TV they need your address
because they are legally obliged to inform the TV licencing people
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:17, archived)
# Wasn't a TV
My decade old Sony is still going, godamnit. Can't bring myself to buy a shiny HD one until it dies.
(I helped save b3ta! fuscous, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:22, archived)
# Ahh Comet
Where the sales assistant hovers over you and asks if they can help (unless you actually *want* their help, in which case they're usually seen marching across the shop head down arse up and trying to be invisible) and so you ask if they can tell you about the product - and they proceed to read out the label for you as if you were illiterate.
(Cloudane, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 13:33, archived)