[plug] Cheap Lexmark Laser Printer at Makro Cannington

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 00:20, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 15:07, Peter T Spicer-Wensley wrote:
> > I just wanted to share my pleasure at buying a cheap new Lexmark E230
> > Laser printer.
> 
> > Price: $129 inc GST!!!
> 
> > [...]
> 
> > Running costs - it uses the same cartridge as the E232 and E330 so
> > for real lexmark cartridges you are looking at around $121 for the
> > 2500 page cartridge (5c per page) OR if you go for the recycled
> > cartridges it will be cheaper.
> 
> So we're now in inkjet-land again, where a full set of printer 
> cartridges costs the same amount as an entire new printer? (-:
> 
> Cheers; Leon

Yeah but you get to charge 2.5 Big Macs worth of markup on each
cartridge whereas you might be lucky to get one Big Mac worth of markup
when you sell them the whole printer.

regards,

Chris