shoptherightway.com is running a really great deal on a lexmark printer
that lists for 129.99 and they are selling it for like 45.00. It seems
like a sweet deal and I know the purchasing is secure. (they use
paypal)
Be very careful... many of these deals on cheapish referb printers
don't include ink. $32 for the black, $20 for the low yield #27 150p
color cart.
Sounds like they are too cheap to get a merchent account to me. I'm
all for cottage industry, more than happy to support cottage industry,
but I would never use "it's secure 'cause it's paypal" as a marketing
pitch. Nor would I reccomend buying from anyone who uses usenet spam
marketing. 42 messages from this person today all "visit our website".
I know who's going to make an abuse report today.
I know many with the printer. 15 ml of ink there and abouts for the
#16 black... works out to be over $8000/gal... or about $32 each which
is about the same cost as HP black carts but 1/2 the volume and 1/2 the
yield. But hey if you want to spend 8.2c/page feel free.
These are the printers where it's in your best interest to buy
something else that comes with ink at $100, as anyone who prints more
than 3 reams of paper a year is going to spend more in ink than it
would cost to replace the printer and print the same amount. Unless
there is a decent resource for referbished carts. But in it's defence
it's got an ok scanner, somewhat decent software that's easy to use,
while the printer doesn't have a fax modem on board your PC's fax modem
is more than adquate to do the job. If you need a cheepo scanner and
got the room and never buy ink for this printer you could do worse.
$45? not worth it. You can e-bay one for a buck with $35 shipping
http://search.ebay.com/x1185_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8
This is assuming you really want one... chances are you don't. Their
super high cost per page vs their relativly low print quality make them
a less than ideal choice for anyone who prints more than 100 pages a
month. I would reccomend one to the terminaly ill who only have less
than a year to live and just need to print off their last will and
testiment, scan in their family photos, but that would be too mean to
the person running their estate sale.