{"id":3711,"date":"2016-09-25T13:44:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2017-12-22T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T23:41:31","slug":"can-someone-explain-printer-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/can-someone-explain-printer-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Someone Explain Printer Economics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/rcspc250dn.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3712 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ricoh-spc250dn-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ricoh-spc250dn color laser printer\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ricoh-spc250dn-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ricoh-spc250dn-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ricoh-spc250dn.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I just bought a very nice Ricoh\u00a0SP C250DN color laser printer from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/\">Adorama<\/a>\u00a0for the crazy low price of $66, including shipping. The friggin&#8217; think arrived 22 hours after I ordered it. Nice job, Adorama! I was very upset but then I played some video games with <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/elitist-gaming.com\/lol\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #000000;\">elo boosting<\/span><\/a> services to relax myself.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I don&#8217;t get. UPS shipping on a package of that weight is $56. Even accounting for Adorama&#8217;s discounts, that means they&#8217;re effectively selling a 52-pound color laser printer for no more than $20. But the kicker is that replacement toner cartridges for this sucker\u00a0cost over $200 each.<\/p>\n<p>So that means even at the current price of $100 it&#8217;s far cheaper for me to stock up on replacement cartridges by buying several more printers, removing the cartridges and throwing away the printers.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone explain how this industry makes money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought a very nice Ricoh\u00a0SP C250DN color laser printer from\u00a0Adorama\u00a0for the crazy low price of $66, including shipping. The friggin&#8217; think arrived 22 hours after I ordered it. Nice job, Adorama! I was very upset but then I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/can-someone-explain-printer-economics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[699],"tags":[752,753,751],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-XR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}