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[peanut]

My Epsom all in one DX4400 Printer packed up today one of the 4x ink cartridges had run out.Emergency priority1 was declared

Hours of phoning around revealed a wide discrepancy in prices for the original Epsom pack of 4x cartridges.
Korma Currys £36.20
Vomet store £36.20 (surprise that )
local computer shop £25.00
PC World £24.45
Asda £21.00
ebay comapatables £1.99

Interestingly Vomet are offering a brand new 3in1 Epsom printer with cartridges for £36.00 . Work that out ??

It really does pay to shop around for prices . Don't automatically assume that your local Electrical super store are giving you the best prices ,they are probably ripping you off.
You know who you are ....shame on you

 

[Maz]

Interestingly Vomet are offering a brand new 3in1 Epsom printer with cartridges for £36.00 . Work that out ??

The all-in price is cheap as they rely on you buying expensive toner cartridge replacements. That's how they get their money.

 

[RedBike]

The cartridges supplied with new printers are often only contain small volumes of ink.

 

[barq]

Yep, it is basically the Gillette sales model. Practically give the razor away, but then you pay for it every time you buy new blades.*

All you can do is investigate cheap replacements (like you've done), look into refilling cartridges and in the long run take into account cost per copy when buying new printers.

It's a pain though, isn't it? Especially if you need a refill in hurry.

* Some drug dealers do the same.

 

[John Ponting]

... Especially if you need a refill in a hurry

the trick is never to get to that point.

Look around early and buy a full set of the £1.99 versions well in advance. It's not like keeping a lot of money tied up not working for you.

www.premierink.co.uk have kept my Epson R220 running cheaply for a coupke of years.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i recommend cartridge monkey

 

[LLB]

My Epsom all in one DX4400 Printer packed up today one of the 4x ink cartridges had run out.Emergency priority1 was declared

Hours of phoning around revealed a wide discrepancy in prices for the original Epsom pack of 4x cartridges.
Korma Currys £36.20
Vomet store £36.20 (surprise that )
local computer shop £25.00
PC World £24.45
Asda £21.00
ebay comapatables £1.99

Interestingly Vomet are offering a brand new 3in1 Epsom printer with cartridges for £36.00 . Work that out ??

It really does pay to shop around for prices . Don't automatically assume that your local Electrical super store are giving you the best prices ,they are probably ripping you off.
You know who you are ....shame on you

Get a Lexmark if you want VFM cartidges

Don't use compatibles on Epsons or you will be throwing the whole lot in the bin in 6 months.

 

[Mr Pig]

Don't automatically assume that your local store are giving you the best prices

In my experience they never do. If their price is competitive I like to buy from them though, helps to keep the store open and not far to go is you have a problem.

I always shop around though and the big names are never the cheapest. I've just today ordered an HP laptop for my eight-year-old daughter and the cheapest place I could get it was the HP site! They have a 10% off festive deal.

Talking of deals, that was Woolworths in Airdrie shut today. The town will be dead without it. 80% off everything was good though! Bought masses of batteries, loads of CDs and a few DVD's among other things.

 

[Night Train]

I bought some compatible carts for my Epsom photo printer. The carts never worked well from the start and now the print heads are knackered.

I then bought a HP colour laser for £99. The black is now low though the colours are fine. A replacement HP black toner is about £60. Might get one rather then risk the £25 Ebay compatible to ruin another printer.

 

[Mr Pig]

I bought some compatible carts for my Epsom photo printer. The carts never worked well from the start

I can second that. Maybe some are ok but the ones I've tried were terrible. I just look for good deals on genuine ones and stock up on them.

 

[Maz]

i recommend cartridge monkey

+1

 

[Willow]

I had a lexmark all in one which was cheap to buy but got through the catridges in a flash. I have now purchased a dell mono printer (off ebay so only £60 and new!) to print most of my work on, toners last ages and keep the lexmark purely for essential colour. Interestingly enough I have used the same ebay sight and purchased around 10 printers for the school I work at. Dell wanted something like £120 each printer even with educational discount, ebay sight was on average about £70. Occasionally the leads may be missing or the set up disc but I can get over these problems quite easily. I feel like I'm spending the school's money well when it works out like this.

 

[buggi]

when i was looking for an mp3 player i went to Vomet store and they had a purple Sony one and a pink Sony one. one was £10 quid more. i asked the bloke what the difference was. He said "the colour". (i shoot you not)

Hmm. i asked him if i could have the pink one for the same price as the purple one if i paid cash.

He said "No".

So i took my business elsewhere because i liked the pink one.

 

[mr_cellophane]

£23-28 is a fair price for T0715. I will have to look in Asda tomorrow.

I have a Brother laser printer, when Tempo closed I bought 3 cheaply, gradually swapped the toner and drum with the one I was using and sold them off to Cash Converters for slightly less than I paid for them.

 

[Mr Pig]

I asked him if I could have the pink one for the same price. He said "No".

I find the big stores fairly inflexible on price. If you can't get the price down you can try asking them to throw stuff in, they sometimes go for that. What I do like is that they are great on returns. If you take a faulty product back they just swap it or refund you no questions asked. They don't give a monkeys.

What really bugs me is the way they 'loose' the boxes for the display models! I wanted to buy a display Toshiba laptop in Currys the other day but they'd lost the box, and therefore the charger, battery etc. I was talking to a mate who buys and sells computers about it and he says they don't loose them at all. Staff steal the chargers and batteries to sell on eBay and bin the box to cover it.

Best laugh I got was looking for a printer for my mother about a year ago. Comet in Coatbridge had an ex-display HP printer reduced to £40 from £55 or something like that. I said 'fine, have you got the box?'. 'No, no box, no cartridges, no software, just the actual printer.

I said 'But to buy the cartridges and software is going to cost far more than you've reduced the printer by!' Idiot woman was having none of it so I told her she'd be as well dropping the thing in the bin because she was never going to sell it.