On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 21:47 -0700, Russell wrote: > I can see where you're coming from, but from my point in view why > would > you sell a piece of plastic with ink in it that cost the same amount > as > something that is made up of wires and circuitry boards? The idea of > material and size doesn't match up to the price. If you would analyze > the whole scenario, why aren't they selling seats for cars at $23,000 > which is what a car goes for? This whole scenario was on the news one > time. They were having people who were ticked at the prices on the > news. > They wound up selling the generic brands but even those prices were > raised to make up for the money that they lost (Seems like a > coincidence > to me for microsoft, if you lose money somewhere, jack up the price > on > the cheap stuff to make up for it.) I think the whole idea of selling > a > printer cartridge at the same amount as a printer doesn't make sense. > I > think they make the most important parts extremely expensive so that > we'll have to buy them otherwise we won't be able to use the second > most > expensive. That's like selling a DVD for the same amount as the > burner > itself. Or shall we say, in my case, an AMD processor for my computer > at > 1.5ghz would cost almost the same amount as my computer itself. Which > brings me back to the amount and prices not matching. You have a > 3inch > by 3inch circuitry board that costs the same amount as something that > is > 17 inch x 23 inch? Looks like somebody's making allot of money > conveniently. > > But in any ways, like you said, to keep this on topic, I think that > Linux would definitely beat Windows by a long shot because of > Windows' > errors. > Russell > > Davey wrote:
Why do they charge the same for a print cartridge that they do for the printer? Because they can. Because they know that people will pay that much for it because they have no other choice. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
