Thread 60561387

Name a bigger scam industry than printer ink

>>60561387 (OP)
Crypto by a factor of 6 000 000.

>>60561387 (OP)
chainl ink

>>60561387 (OP)
Why? What's in it for me?

Insurance, any type
All forms of sales
Marketing
The entire credit industry
Almost all software services
Healthcare
Wealth management
Education
Green anything
Anything with any government involvement

All bonefied, certified, naturalized scams

jews

>>60561387 (OP)
>>60561424

- Waste Management
- Utilities
- Gas Stations
- Grocery Stores
- Chapstick
- Footwear
- Toilet Paper
- Bottled Water
- Kleenex
- Smartphones
- Deodorant
- Shaving Cream
- Toothpaste

Need I say more?

>>60561440

Are you an Indian by any chance?

>>60561387 (OP)
laser is such a superior printing tech it's not even funny.

>>60561387 (OP)
it is literally a loss leader scam

>>60561498
Reminds me of led bulbs vs incandescent

Protip if you arent 100% led by now you are a retard

>>60561387 (OP)
selling tokens to retail by making them think they will increase in value, while you incorporate on the cayman islands so the sec doesn't come for you for securities fraud

>>60561507
"nooo I like paying 8x the electricity cost because the light from incandescent bulbs is so much more natural"

>>60561506
yes. you can literally buy a new printer for cheaper than it costs to get a new color+grayscale cartridge set.

>>60561526
i am an icp investor, stop triggering me

>>60561387 (OP)
Insurance.
Healthcare.

>>60561498
>>60561387 (OP)
Ecotank is the best.

I've printed over 5000 pages and I still haven't used the ink that came in the box. Bought it from Costco for a lifetime warranty effectively (you can always return it). Gets its own email address so you can get it to print on any network

>>60561542
>yes. you can literally buy a new printer for cheaper than it costs to get a new color+grayscale cartridge set.

I thought this was a LARP but it's almost true. I judt looked up 1 black and 1 color cartridge and it was $70. A new printer was $140.... lmfao.

Though, you have to buy new ink cartridges for your new printer, so there's no point in replacing one unless it breaks. My printer is from 2015 and still works great.

>>60561507
I kill weed on my driveway with LED lighting.

>>60561580
Uv-c lights kills everything even make you blind if you keep staring.

>>60561559
>>60561550
Here is a /biz/ idea. Instead of buying ink cartridge refills, just buy a new fucking printer. When the cartridges run out (and they will run out fast), sell the printer for half price. You can now buy a brand-new printer and save ~$10 versus just buying the refill.

Ok, don't do this seriously, but this illustrates how absurd the consumer inkjet printer industry is.

>>60561603

This is mind-boggling.

I'm going to ask Microsoft Copilot, brb.

It comes down to the “razor-and-blades” game: the printer is effectively sold at—or even below—cost to hook you into buying ink, where the real margin lives. Here’s how that plays out:

Subsidized hardware

Printer makers will take little to no profit (sometimes even a loss) on the machine itself.

By pricing the printer at $50 with two “starter” cartridges, they lower your barrier to entry.

High-margin consumables

Replacement or refill cartridges carry huge markups—often 200–400% over their production cost.

Two refills at $40 still net them a hefty profit every time you top up.

Starter vs. full-size cartridges

The cartridges bundled with a new printer usually hold less ink (so you’ll run out sooner).

Full-size refills have more ink—and you pay a premium per milliliter.

Lock-in through chips and warranties

Many cartridges have microchips that enforce brand loyalty (generic/refill chips may not always work flawlessly).

Warranty or support can be voided if you stray from official supplies—so the $40 refills feel “safer” than a no-name refill.

Why you see only a $10 gap between “printer + starter inks” and “just two refills”: the printer itself is being offered at a rock-bottom price, betting on you buying ink long term at much higher margins.

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What you might explore next: • Actual cost-per-page calculations (inks differ wildly in yield). • Third-party refill services versus OEM cartridges. • Eco-friendly printing choices (bulk ink systems, refillable-tank printers, or even local print shops).

>>60561580
you can buy diffusers and low k variants now. They even sell turtle led lights that are basically sunlight teir

>>60561603
>>60561559
Of course the problem is at this point the included ink cartridges are super tiny trial sizes even vs the refills.

Easy- buy knockoff ink that honestly if it's well reviewed is fine for everything but your imaginary photo printing business

Next- buy an Ecotank with huge amounts of cheap ink in the box and cheap refills

Circumcision. It's a multi-million dollar profit industry. Shareholders make millions in profit in exchange for ruining our sex lives permanently. Infant foreskin is sold for $800+ to medical/cosmetic testing and they charge $1000+ for the circumcision itself which takes 15 minutes max (no anesthesia is used, so costs are low.) It's pure profit. It's the biggest, most unethical scam ever ran on anyone.

This is why circumcision will NEVER be made illegal for male babies in America (it's been illegal for female babies for over twenty years, since "female" is a protected class that "male" isn't.) Imagine making millions upon millions of dollars in easy profit by convincing parents to permanently mutilate their babies, and the parents are PAYING $1K TO GET IT DONE. It's beyond insanity.

Imagine if doctors were honest. "Hey, that newborn baby you just had? I strongly suggest you get his penis tissue amputated. This is so I can gain my hospital $800 in easy profit plus resell the healthy tissue for another $800. It's a quick and extremely profitable surgery. What do you say? I'll now shame and browbeat you until you say yes. Oh, and if you say no, I'll 'accidentally' have your baby circumcised anyway and charge you for it, since I'm basically immune to lawsuits since male babies aren't protected by law for forced genital mutilation like female babies are."

>>60561698
Lol chud logic

>>60561698
Even if the parents got PAID $1800 to get it done, it would still be the biggest most widely perpetrated scam in history in terms of net costs to the victims. And yes the sex bias is insane:

>Girls: ritual labial pinprick that's less damaging than an earring hole, removes no tissue and causes no loss of function (this is the most common form of female circumcision by far)
Genital mutilation! Death penalty for female circumcisors!

>Boys: ALWAYS removes functional tissue, ALWAYS causes immense pain, ALWAYS causes lasting sexual dysfunction and loss of pleasure (if these things do not occur, the circumcision is considered a failure!)
Normal, healthy, all-american, patriotic even!

>>60561701
Cutcel cope. Refute any of it. "I'm glad it happened and I'm going to do it to my kids too" isn't a refutation, it's abuser logic.

>>60561507
Enjoy your LED migraine flicker retard

Another one. LASIK and its variants (PRK and SMILE). These are all scams because once you understand the biological and optical principles at work in carving a 6mm optical zone (severing nerve endings in the process) into an eye whose pupils routinely dilate larger than 6mm in anything but perfect daylight conditions, you realize these freaks are charging $2000+ to permanently damage your eyes with a vision treatment that CANNOT ever treat all the loght entering your eye. The untreated light contributes to HOAs which cause blurring, visual noise, and starbursts in any not-perfect lightibg situation. All while your severed eyeball nerves contribute to a lifetime of moderate-to-crippling dry eye. None of these fuckers will ever level with you about the extent of the side effects you will (not might, but WILL) have. All they want is your signed consent form and your money so they can ruin your eyes, shove you out the door, and get the schmuck into the office for their 'consultation'

>>60561387 (OP)
HR departments
someone really went and convinced big companies to implement a shitty resource hogging department that does not make them any money whatsoever

>>60561387 (OP)
Real estate/housing

I'm kinda baffled how printer ink is even a topic anymore. It's like if people were to post threads like "name a bigger scam industry than casette tapes". Who still buys inkjet printers?

>>60561773
HR for the most part is just the managers harem.

>>60561880
we have this HR department where i work, no one in the company knows what are they supposed to be, every single one of them is a woman, but ugly ones, everyone except the manager who is a tall hot milf with a huge round firm ass.

>>60561741
Nit a single credible person can back your claim and also diffusers exist

>>60561770
You do bring up some good points but I think you are discounting the benefit of never needing corrective lenses ever again. I got LASEK (PRK variant) 14 years ago. Yes I do have some starburst at night but my vision has otherwise been crystal clear since getting that procedure. Overall I am very happy with the results. Looks like SMILE is a better procedure with a 10% larger effective optical zone compared to PRK. I would support any of my family members to get this procedure. The whole thing cost me less than $1500. From a /biz/ perspective, it was worth it.

>>60561542
>>60561507
the light is better though.

>>60561994
They make led incandescent called Edison bulbs

There is actually no reason not to upgrade, not even a bad one

diamonds

>>60561507
>Protip if you arent 100% led by now you are a retard
Hello Rabbi

>>60561424
this kek

>>60561741
>>60561887
Newer/more premium LED options modulate at a frequency high enough that it does not cause migraines, look into it desu
Cheap shit/older ones can modulate at a frequency high enough you can't see it but it can still cause migraines

>>60562681
you kept the file name, neat

>>60561387 (OP)
Usury

>>60561387 (OP)
Macdonalds ice cream

>>60561503
>>60561448
Poop tags

the funniest part about this fiatcel post >>60561396 is that he doesn't understand what a factor means
which is hilarious because his bank is utilizing this very ignorance to steal his money through debasement
your IQ is the factor of 29

>>60561932
>you are discounting the benefit of never needing corrective lenses ever again
To a certain extent I can concede that some people might not mind the night vision abnormalities or increased dry eye tendency. On the other hand, I haven't even mentioned the nonzero risk of serious side effects - infection, blindness, etc. that can follow from the procedure. Corrective lenses (glasses or contacts) are an annoyance but their risks are zero, and anything too annoying can be mitigated by simply discontinuing use. Surgery is a convenience but its risks are serious and nonzero, and irreversible.

Many of the things people are trying to get away from with lasik (discomfort of contact lenses, annoyance of carrying supplies, lenses, glasses, etc with you wherever you go) are present on the other side of lasik anyways (now your eyes are dry all the time, you need to carry around eyedrops; you need to constrict your pupils at night so you can drive, so you carry around brimonidine drops; you need reading glasses 15 years sooner than if you hadn't got the surgery).

>>60561999
checked. Thanks I'll get some
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulUI7JsFjZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE related

>>60563160
You can't win if you don't play, ya know?

>>60561387 (OP)
chainlink

>>60561503
Saar.

>>60561387 (OP)
you can hack some laser printers to make the printer print forever with a single cartridge. google "laser printer chip hack" and you'll find a bunch.

>>60561542
The ink cartridges that come with the printer are half full

>>60562603
>buy even more LEDs
yeah, no. My 100 watt incandescent keeps me warm and lit.

>>60561387 (OP)
Taxes