This isn’t a rent-seeking, wallet rape bullshit “subscription” (like BMW heated seats), it’s a legitimate subscription service where they just order and ship a product automatically for you on a regular schedule (like Amazon) and give you a discount. Also, you’re not forced to purchase a subscription, you can just buy retail cartridges if you prefer.
This actually makes a lot of sense for people who print regularly and frequently.
Edit: it has been pointed out to me that there is, in fact, some tomfuckery involved with this subscription model
Before I bought a brother printer, I would just buy and/or refill whatever cartridges I could get for my printers because of HP’s and Canon’s bullshit. Now that I own a Brother, I only buy toner and cartridges directly from them. Vote with your wallets, people.
Yep, Brother is the GOAT. I bought a basic Brother laser printer 10 years ago for a hundred bucks and I’ve replaced the toner, like, twice. Never given me a single problem.
I suppose people are afraid this is the first step towards the awful subscriptions all the other companies milk dry. If brother wanted to be different, you would expect them to be marketing about it right and left.
Bought it in 2020 the second we got work from home orders and just replaced the toner about 36 months later. About the same price as 19 drops of ink you get from HP or Canon
Actually, I don’t think this is a fitting meme.
This isn’t a rent-seeking, wallet rape bullshit “subscription” (like BMW heated seats), it’s a legitimate subscription service where they just order and ship a product automatically for you on a regular schedule (like Amazon) and give you a discount. Also, you’re not forced to purchase a subscription, you can just buy retail cartridges if you prefer.
This actually makes a lot of sense for people who print regularly and frequently.
Edit: it has been pointed out to me that there is, in fact, some tomfuckery involved with this subscription model
Ok I’ll take that.
(Still funny though.)
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Oh, so like Dollar Shave Club but for printer ink? Really, it’s a little surprising that hasn’t happened before 2023. Or maybe it has?
Call it the Dollar Per Page Club
Yes, exactly like that
Before I bought a brother printer, I would just buy and/or refill whatever cartridges I could get for my printers because of HP’s and Canon’s bullshit. Now that I own a Brother, I only buy toner and cartridges directly from them. Vote with your wallets, people.
Yep, Brother is the GOAT. I bought a basic Brother laser printer 10 years ago for a hundred bucks and I’ve replaced the toner, like, twice. Never given me a single problem.
same here
my decade old brother laser printer is a fricken tank
I’ll never buy anything else (hell, I may not need to buy anything else)
Brother also makes sewing machines and haven’t attempted to put DRM on thread. Yet.
HP has that business model for quite a while already
Could you elaborate on the tomfuckery? I’m not seeing it here.
Someone else in this reply chain mentioned that the ink will be disabled if you cancel the subscription.
I thought that was an HP thing.
and it made them money, so now everyone’s doing it.
And if you want to pay more as it is based on pages and not ink usage. Also, apparently the cartridge gets disabled as soon as you cancel.
Oh, that, I was not aware of. Okay, that is a kinda bullshitty.
I suppose people are afraid this is the first step towards the awful subscriptions all the other companies milk dry. If brother wanted to be different, you would expect them to be marketing about it right and left.
Yeah I’m a big fan of my brother laser
Bought it in 2020 the second we got work from home orders and just replaced the toner about 36 months later. About the same price as 19 drops of ink you get from HP or Canon
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