tasman1 wrote: ProAdCo... good idea but i am not much of business person .... for last few year i spended a bit over 400 a year on ink , now i go to post office next door , buy a printer for 29.00 , changed 4 last year and saved a lot

If I had your printers.

I would put them in my yard sale.

Do you all have yard sales there?

yep , we have , but they all have it . Tasmania is poor , very poor and everybody trying to sell something

tasman1 wrote: yep , we have , but they all have it . Tasmania is poor , very poor and everybody trying to sell something

I just read you guys having a power crisis and 80,000 customers too went through 8 days of internet hell.

Did you get shut down without power?

no internet problem but yes we have power problem . Strange weather , no rain last 6 month , Normaly Tasmania is very cold and wet , winter last 10 month but now we are 6 month in summer, strange. El Nino is here but no rain . Strange , strange

tasman1 wrote: no internet problem but yes we have power problem . Strange weather , no rain last 6 month , Normaly Tasmania is very cold and wet , winter last 10 month but now we are 6 month in summer, strange. El Nino is here but no rain . Strange , strange

Oh. That explains why the water levels are down at the damns and the expansion of the generators.

Are you in on the solar power plan for the customers.?

ProAdCo wrote:

tasman1 wrote: no internet problem but yes we have power problem . Strange weather , no rain last 6 month , Normaly Tasmania is very cold and wet , winter last 10 month but now we are 6 month in summer, strange. El Nino is here but no rain . Strange , strange

Oh. That explains why the water levels are down at the damns and the expansion of the generators.

Are you in on the solar power plan for the customers.?

can not afford it , not with my pension , will cost me min 4-5 k . maybe in future , maybe

I have a friend in Louisville that her and her husband a few years ago
opened a franchise ink store. That's all they sell....ink.

Maybe some people still do this, I don't know, but some years ago people
were buying bottles of ink that came with little syringes. You'd fill the syringe
with the ink and then shoot it into the empty ink cartridge. I did that one
time and it was the biggest mess I ever made in my life. I never did
it again. I sure didn't see any savings in it either.

There is the return cartridge such as HP often has. You return your empties
and they send you an ink cartridge for free in return. Most people probably
don't bother with doing that and they know it.

That is exactly what companies do today....they invent something and then
have an add on so that you either have to purchase other things to go with
it or you have to keep purchasing something else to get the first something
to work.

That's what I was saying. The money is in the ink.

The fax machine I had, contained large rolls of paper. It was rather thin paper
and it lasted a relatively long time. I would buy the rolls, two big rolls to a box.
I know at the time I thought the paper was expensive. So that is how they made
their continuous money on that machine....not ink.....paper.

Another big rip off is batteries and chargers. Look at everything that uses batteries
and look at everything that uses chargers. Many are different. I have a fitness
watch and the charger on it is very different. If I break it, the only way I can
replace it is thru that fitness watch company. I don't know how much it cost but
probably a lot more than it should.

In the old days, you buy a Kitchenmaid mixer and it came with the parts needed.
Today you buy a kitchenmaid mixer and then spend the rest of your life being all
the accessories parts for it.

Just saying.

If the money is in the ink, so they must be very sticky.