we sort of see a 20 percent uplift on the value of that customer because you’re locking that person, committing to a longer-term relationship.
Do these people never listen to themselves? Who the hell wants to be “locked”?
CEO: “We have observed through careful analysis that by locking our customers inside the restaurant, they will continue to order food from us in order to not starve. Therefore, from now on, all doors shall now be one way only”
Investors: “What brilliant entrepreneurship!”
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This CEO is so entitled he’s completely flipped the last few centuries of capitalist economic theory on its head.
No longer is capitalism about convincing business owners or consumers to invest in your product or business. Now, the consumer is lucky to have had the opportunity to purchase your product, as though you are a king or deity; magnanimous in your product offering.
They should be so lucky, to be forced to pay you a monthly tithing for your racketeering.
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Oh they are human beings. Human beings are capable of this and far worse. Don’t ever forget that.
HP printers: A bad investment in not having your printer break by the 2 year mark
If you get 2 years out of an HP product, you’re doing pretty well.
5 years ago I bought a 10 year old HP Laserjet because I was fed up with every single bubble jet printer’s quality and ink cost. I’m still using the toner that came with it. And I’ve been getting low ink warnings for 3 of those years. Maybe 500 or so pages in that time. I’d never buy a new HP though since they phone home. If you find an old Laserjet I can’t recommend them enough.
Which is sad. The HP LJ4 was a fucking tank back in the day. I used to get them for friends and family, put in an Ethernet card, clean it up, and then it’s print for another decade.
I’m living a mostly printer free lifestyle thanks to this kind of malarkey.
Yup. Just like toll roads, I’ll go out of my way and spend extra effort to avoid printers on principle.
Really makes me appreciate the free printing services at my local public library.
I like how HP says a big reason to not use 3rd party ink is because they can introduce malware, which is another reason they need to work to make sure you only use HP ink.
However, the security issue is because of the chips they use in order to make sure you only use HP ink.
It seems like to me that HP, HPE and HP Printing have had the most constant and slowest death in the industry and if this article proves anything, it isn’t going to change.
If a company sees me not as a customer, but as a “bad investment”, I think it is time to turn into an even worse investment and in the future buy products from a company that values their customers as human beings.
a company that values their customers as human beings.
Good luck with that
I’d be fine if they just value us as customers, but one should always aim a bit higher.
does spamming job application work
Might give it a try.
I saw their ad for their printer ink that is apparently chipped to stop People from buying third party ink.
They presented it as a means to ‘prevent fraud’ and to ‘protect your business’
From what
From people not buying your overpriced junk? How does you adding what is basically a drm at this point help the consumer combat ‘fraud’?!
Malware. They’re saying that malware imbedded on the cartridge can hop to the printer then onto networks.
Which is why you shouldn’t buy from unknown vendors. But even certified cartridges can be tampered with if you’re getting it from a sketchy source.
But how can malware be in the cartridge in the first place? Because someone in management had the ingenious idea, to put a chip with complex code and access rights in what is supposed to be a simple mechanical part.
Exactly right. The problem was manufactured, in more ways than one.
And this is why I don’t buy HP any more. 😅
HP garbage is the real bad investmemt
Do we have a new crop of incredulous “Damn, HP printers suck” people again? Welcome, friends.
Watchugonna do, stop selling to us?
This is capitalism.
HP follows the Nvidia mantra of the more you buy, the more you save.
SMDH
“Charge like a wounded bull” has been their company motto for as long as I can remember.
Spoiled and entitled due to making a monopoly out of their own ecosystem. Why are we still tolerating that?
lol then again most of you are Americans which makes you apple fanboys so obviously you aren’t ready for this message yet
