• Your Huckleberry@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Office Depot sells printers at very low (or even negative) margin, and then inflates the margins on cables, paper, ink, and warranty. If you want the best deal, get the printer from OD, and everything else you need somewhere else. That $20 USB cable they sell costs them $1 and you can get the same or better online for $2.68.

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      1 year ago

      Aye this is 100% correct! I used to manage a store in NC. Also none of the tech services are actually done by the associates. We just attach a USB with a program for someone else to fix it remotely.

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        1 year ago

        Who in the world would put a cheap blackbox in their household and give it access to the internet.

        Selfhosted CUPS bby!

        The reasonably new android phones seem to detect unix network printers now, so wireless printing works as well. Mostly… we’re talking about the printers after all.

    • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      This principle applies to many stores. If you shop at a mattress store the mattress pads are priced at triple the value.