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By: You Are Legally Obligated to Carry a Cell Phone « The Remi Stevens Bolg

You Are Legally Obligated to Carry a Cell Phone « The Remi Stevens Bolg — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:30:24 +0000

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By: exuvia

exuvia — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:48:47 +0000

$4250/L ink.

Well done; the small calculation is a true eye opener.

They are selling ink as if it was Art. The value of Art is what someone is willing to pay for it.

I wish I wasn’t addicted to PRINT…

By: ponch58

ponch58 — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:16:38 +0000

Everyone talks about the price of gas as being ludicrous, and often I’ve seen the whole “Compare it to bottled water! It’s not that bad!” arbument. How about ink though?

Gas reaches $1 a liter and everyone goes apeshit! I just bought a ink “cartridge” for 50 dollars. That “cartridge” was already paid for and the amount of ink in it is 12 mL. (I splurged on the “high yield” cartridge instead of the “moderate yield”)

Basically that ink cost me $4.25/mL or if you want to compare it directly to gas, $4250/L

Pretty fucking ridiculous!

By: exuvia

exuvia — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:45:26 +0000

Mankind, yes, but me…

The path from the gallon of black inc into the cartrigde is fraught with danger. Still the economy in the insanely healthy ecological concept of refilling the inc cup yourself is well worth the occasional disasters.

Re-fillers unite!

By: exuvia

exuvia — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:38:30 +0000

“welding fact and painstaking research to a solid frame of good judgment”

That is what good blogging is all about.

Your Bolg is a one man band; you known it by the bulky drum on the back and the harmonica leading the banjo but then there is the add on, the fireworks and the magic tricks going on all at the same time. How does he do it?

Long life to the Bolg!

By: remistevens

remistevens — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:02:01 +0000

Ha! good stuff man, I didn’t think of that! Of course its a re-fill scam. I wonder if the same thing goes on with batteries?

Don’t pollute our landfills with the lemon juice they put in batteries!

We’ve got the technology to be able to fill cartridges with ink in the home safely, I’m confident mankind has reached that level of technical skill. Keep the easy re-fill hole off the product to make it as difficult as possible for you to lengthen the life of your own stuff. Its like a saboteur coming into your house and wrecking things. . . . .One day it will be illegal and impossible to work on your car.

By: remistevens

remistevens — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:51:31 +0000

Pic is of a guy ark welding fact and painstaking research to a solid frame of good judgment.

By: remistevens

remistevens — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:48:37 +0000

1/3 not bad odds. . . .always pick C.

By: remistevens

remistevens — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:42:34 +0000

Theres just so much THE and so little actual quality, often the consumer starts feeling ripped off even earlier in the life-span of the product. Right up to the point of sale. As soon as you bought it, there is that realization that the thing just became your responsibility. When you were pawing it up with the salesmen, it was his lemon. If the quality was found to be inferior at that point, you’re a winner. . . . .After purchase we’re all losers.

Updating, updating. . . …

By: ponch58

ponch58 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:54:56 +0000

There’s some useless packaging inyour ink cartridge photo that you didn’t point out. The cartridge itself! You don’t need a new cartridge everytime, and it’s the only reason the damn things cost so much!

Refilling them yourself is a pain in the ass and they don’t make the refillable ones with any quality in mind at all! You just end up spilling half the ink on your pants, thereby needing more ink and, unless you are an artist and it’s “cool” to look ” dirty”, a new pair of pants.

The best part is how the store demands you bring back your used cartridges so they can be properly “disposed of”! Horse shit! They are sending them straight back to the manufacturers to be refilled, and getting money back for them!

I have always refused to do this and turf them straight in the trash! If they wanna make more money off of them, they can damn well dig ‘em up!