HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies

Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by BizarroLand on Friday January 19, 2024 @06:08PM (#39062630)

That's the thing, isn't it? I would gladly pay $500 for "THE LAST PRINTER I WILL EVER NEED TO BUY", $650 if it came with a 10 year parts and labor guarantee.

No one makes what I want to buy.

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Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by jachriga on Friday January 19, 2024 @07:48PM (#39063450)

I worked at Lexmark around the time they tried this as a strategy. They sold a $300-400 inkjet printer whose (black) ink cartridges were priced at $5. It doesn't work, because the consumer is shortsighted and greedy and often self-defeating (see: the JC Penney pricing debacle).

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Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by Euphorbium on Friday January 19, 2024 @06:51PM (#39063046)

Every HP printer is the last HP printer you will ever buy.

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Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by tanseydavid on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:13PM (#39063991)

Not in the days before Carly Fiorina was driving the ship.

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Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by Turing_Machine on Saturday January 20, 2024 @08:35AM (#39067433)

For sure.

A place where I worked in the early 2000s used old-school HP laser printers. The one in my unit cranked through boxes and boxes of paper with no trouble at all. It was all heavy-gauge metal, and must've weighed 50 pounds at least.

Post-Carly, HP printers became the same flimsy Chinese crap as all the other brands. Carly's bright idea was to take flimsy Chinese crap, slap an HP label on it, and sell it for HP prices.

You can get away with that. Once. After that, no one is going to ever buy your overpriced junk again.

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