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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::"Never own a printer again."

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[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I still own a HP laser printer (older model from 5-10 years ago) which does not have the online connectivity requirement and the third party cartridges could last for ages.

As long as the printer dies I will forget HP and its bullshit exists and never touch their products again.

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

HP becoming Facebook soon

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I recently trashed my HP and bought a really old Dell LaserJet from government auction. $25 and it came with a 60% full toner. Been using it for 2 months and still have 54% toner left.

I'll probably never replace this thing and keep fixing it until I can't find parts anymore.

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[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

My last HP printer had a serial port. It was all down hill from there.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, a ruthless evil genius. I think loads of people are going to subscribe, and they can therefore be categorised as delusional.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No home customer is going to find this worthwhile. Businesses might, but B2B already operates under different business model assumptions than B2C. This would cost more in 6 months than an average home user is likely to spend on printing over 5 years.

If you want to get customers to sign up for your subscription service, it has to at least appear like a win for them. This one is so blatantly a loss that it'll never take. At $10 it might work, and at $6 I can see a lot of people ending up doing it. The only thing I can think of is that this is designed to attract the negative attention before getting positive attention when they inevitably decide to drop the price to something that is actually viable.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

You’re too optimistic. This is simply to prey on your grandmother

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[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

HP can go fuck themselves

[–] Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago

$36 a month for something I would use maybe 2 or 3 times a year? That's $432 I would pay for those 2-3 prints. Subscription based printer accessibility (not ownership) is a lossing strategy for normies like me. Maybe it may work for b2b segment. Aslo, Fuck you, HP. Thanks for convincing me not to buy your other products.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile, physical media is on the decline.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 10 months ago

Yup dawg, we heard you like economic rent…

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't pay $36 for an HP printer that they didn't monitor much less per month

[–] Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

Why should I care about company X launching Y, where Y is uninnovative? I percieve this post as an ad

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I'll just print off the odd thing I need a paper copy of from work and continue as I've done for a dexade by puposefully denying myself from the sincere privilege of paying HP another god damned red cent for as long as draw breath, kthxbai. 🖕

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[–] Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

My last printer was an hp , the ink only lasted a few months. I’m done with it. At most I print a few items per month so we now go to fedex office and have it printed there for $0.20

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