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OfficeWorks - the Rip Off

by Chris Gilbey at 12:51PM (EST) on April 20, 2008 | Permanent Link | Cosmos

My Fuji Xerox printer has been on the fritz over the last couple of weeks. I needed to print a letter so I went to the Office Works in the local town to print it. I saved the letter onto a memory stick to make it easy.

OfficeWorks wanted to charge me $5.50 to download the letter from the memory stick to one of their PC's! And then charge me for the printing on top of that! What a total rip off!

Instead I went to an internet cafe a couple of blocks away and got the two page letter printed for fifty cents...

Back to the printer - this is another rip off. I have had the Xerox laser printer for a couple of years. It cost originally about $600 which was a pretty competitive price at the time. So now it appears that the ink cartridges need to be replaced. And boy are they expensive! About $170 per cartridge. And there are four cartridges...

The moral of the story seems to be that it is substantially cheaper to buy a new printer when the first cartridge gives up the ghost. This is why we have landfill overflowing with e-pollution in this country....

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Re: OfficeWorks - the Rip Off

by Ilias Dionisakos on Mon 21 Apr 2008 09:59 AM EST | Permanent Link

Officeworks is actually pretty cheap for that!

Try going to SNAP - $20 for the first file and $1 for each additional file!

FedExKinkos charges the same as Officworks - $5.50.

OFIS even charges you an up front fee for everything other than self serve printing

Re: OfficeWorks - the Rip Off

by Anonymous on Fri 25 Apr 2008 06:42 PM EST | Permanent Link

Printers in general are a rip off. I don't own one. When I need to print something I go to Kinkos or similar and pay per page. Unless you need to print a lot of stuff, this option is cheaper and environment friendly.

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