On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:17:07PM -0500, Garrett Krueger wrote: > HP's not the only one with that market corner; I noticed this with Canon > too. A few years ago, I bought my kids a cheapo Canon bubblejet for > Christmas -- $59 or some such price. Then I discovered each cartridge > (Black = $20, Color = $37) summed to the printer price. That printer is > now sitting in my junk pile, and they have a totally different printer > today! The other big rip off these days is cables. Best Buy, for instance, will sell you a $40 printer, the sales guy will say "oh, you need a cable!" and he'll throw in a $30 parallel/usb cable in your cart (happened to my mom). KVM switches - you can buy them for a song - but cables will cost you $20+ a piece. Gotta love general nano - i needed some just regular power cables a while back. All the stores charge $10+ for them. I /refused/ to pay that for a stupid power cable (i wanted a few, always need them..). Went to general nano systems on university, and they just gave me a handful of them! i didn't even buy anything (on that particular trip). Patch cables - don't get me started. Go to home depot, invest in a crimper and buy a spool. *sigh* maybe i'm in the wrong business :) dan _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list