HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink?

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "HP and Staples are facing an anti-trust lawsuit over replacement printer cartridges. According to the lawsuit, HP paid Staples $100 million to refuse to stock competing ink cartridges. HP could make that back in short order when you consider that printer ink can cost $8,000 per gallon and certain printers deceive users to waste as much as 64% of their ink."

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Re:More than just ink...

[debianlinux]

Little did you know that you were actually getting the equipment free with the purchase of the cable!

Re:More than just ink...

[skoaldipper]

Who the hell buys ANY cable from a retailer like Best Buy or Circuit City?

Dummies like me. Spent $20 on a USB connector last night to see if I could transfer video from my DishTV to computer after I switched to Uverse.

I guess guys like Best Buy figure there's a handful of lazy people like myself who eventually get tired of digging around in boxes for hours hunting down an old cable you swore you had at one point in time, getting distracted even further as you scrounge up and discover old 5-1/4 floppies and a Hayes baud modem with rubber ear muffles in mystery box number 23. I don't know why I cling on to this crap, but Best Buy knows me better than myself I guess.

By the way, as I left store last night, some guy in tattered clothing with a grizzled beard was lurking in the parking lot and approached me, "Pssst. Hey, buddy. could you spare a DB9 to DB25 connector for a friend?"

Re:More than just ink...

[MarkGriz]

Wanna "make friends" at a place like Best Buy or Circuit City? Wait till you see Grandma about to buy one of those cables and is being pounced on by the salesguy -- then tell her about the twenty other options for getting that cable for next to nothing. So that's what nerds have been reduced to.... picking up old ladys at Best Buy with promises of cheap USB cables. *shudder*