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Edited on Sun Dec-11-05 09:25 AM by applegrove
buy the expensive cartridges from them. At upwards of $30 a pop. If you collected those cartridges, and took them to the local mall where they re-fill them with ink at the kiosk, you could get it refilled, again and again, for $15 each time.
Also too - if you like paying $30 a pop, you could donate your cartridge to charities who will then resell them to people who want to get their ink at the kiosk in the mall (rather than paying for the expensive new ones at Megacomputerstore). The technology is particular to each printer - so that you have to use the exact type of cartridge. So there is a market in every city of empty cartridges.
The reason why they offer to take the cartridge back is so that you (or somebody else)will not save $100 over time by refilling the darn cartridge, again & again.
They know what they are doing. They save $100 on each cartridge they take back. Postage paid? I'm not surprised.
Just collect the cartridges over time. Put them in baggies to keep them from drying out and go and get them refilled (you have to leave the last two cartridges, if you have separate blank ink and a color ink cartridges, in your printer. If you take them out when you don't have the newly filled cartridges right there to replace - the software will go fouey and you'll have to buy a $30 one to get the printer going again.
So collect the cartridges over time. Leave the printer full of the right cartridges, go to mall and fill collected cartridges, bring them home and replace the empty ones, and store the empty & refilled ones so they don't dry out.
Depends how often you print. But I must have saved $300 in the last year.
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