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"measekite" <measekite@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>>The USA price for a new Canon OEM BCI6 cart at Costco is $9.00. I do not
>>>know what that translates to in Aussie dollars.>(snip)
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>>As I recall, you can not buy one at a time but must buy them in packs of
>>three with a cost of $31 per three pack. A bit more than $10 apiece plus
>>tax.
> No Shipping. You do not buy 1 ounce of ink at a time either.
Incredibly, as usual you are right again! Let me explain some simple math.
I am a low volume user of bulk inks so I buy them in 2 oz. containers. At
$5 per 2 oz. container for my six color printer I spend $30 for 2 oz. each.
That plus shipping is roughly equivalent to your purchase of three costco
OEM carts plus tax. An OEM cart has about 13 ml. of ink, but not all of it
is useable as you are warned to replace the cart before it totally runs out
of ink to protect your print head. A 2 oz. bottle of ink will give the
equivalent of five or more OEM cartridges. You are good at math - for my
$36 (the retail cost of three carts) I get the equivalent of more than 30
new carts, or an equivalent value of about $360 retail. For your $29
(estimating tax) you get ---uh---three carts for the equivalent value of
$36 retail.
You may now correctly reply that there is some labor involved and that is
worth something. Lets follow the labor expended. I buy the product on
line. Time expended is five minutes. Refilling each cart is less than five
minutes, including cleanup. Two and one-half hours max total. No extra
cash expended and actual cash flow of $36.
If you buy one set of carts at a time at costco (low volume user as you've
mentioned several times) you will have made 10 trips to buy a set of three
carts at a time. The Costco I go to is a 20 to 30 minute drive, depending
on traffic so this represents at least an hour per trip plus shopping time.
Of course, while I am there I can also buy the little five pound jar of
jelly-bellies, the small gallon size of olive oil, etc. If your Costco is
as busy as ours with customers buying enough food and paper goods to stock a
month cruise on the Queen Mary, you will endure a reasonably long wait at
the register to save your $9 per three cart package, while I can sit
comfortably at my desk and do the three refills in about ten minutes total
for a savings of $33 as compared to buying retail carts. Oh, I forgot that
at almost $3 per gallon you will have burned a few dollars worth of gas on
each trip to offset your savings. Since you have an MBA you are
sufficiently savvy to weigh the investment and inventory issues of buying
all carts at once to save shipping and handling (your trip to Costco in your
no-maintenance-required, never-needs-to-be-repaired Acura) vs. making more
trips, keeping less inventory on hand, and keeping your cash flow lower.
One trip to buy all of them - up front cash outlay of $270 plus tax and the
cost of one trip in time and gas. Ten trips to buy one set of three on each
trip - $270 cash outlay over several months plus the cost of ten trips in
time and gas. Now please don't forget that when you replace a cart you have
to open the package, pop the little orange seal, remove the tape, remove the
old cart, and replace it with the new one. Even you don't move at the speed
of light, much less sound. That's at least two minutes if you keep the carts
right next to the printer. I remove the cart, refill it, and replace it in
about five minutes.
Kidding aside, you will spend the time and gas money going to the store for
one to ten trips to buy (at retail or otherwise) the product while I can sit
at my desk during a printing session and spend no more time, total, to
refill my carts. I just purchased my second set of MIS 2 oz. bottles of
ink. In the almost one year of use on my I960 printer I have saved about
$325 in ink cost with prints you can not distinguish from OEM prints and
with no printer problems. Costco doesn't carry all the colors of the six
color printer, but if they did, buying my carts at Costco would have saved
me about $90 instead for the same amount of printing. I saved myself the
cost of two of my printers so far, instead of less than the cost of one of
yours. Of course, both of us have to go there to stock up on Kirkland
paper, the one you and I love to use, so that may skew the time element a
bit in your direction, but you can't refute the basic premise, even if you
can weasel a bit on a few pennies one way or another.
>>Still cheaper per cart than the list price, but you need to buy three of a
>>color to save about $2 per cart.
> INCORRECT AGAIN. Costco sells a 3 pack of color. One each of the primary
> colors. These usually run out within weeks of each other. You are
> actually purchasing one cart per color in the packaged. With the dye
> black there are 3.
Your epithet, "incorrect again", implies that most of my posts are
incorrect? I suppose, in contradistinction to your "always correct" posts.
I'll leave that conclusion up to the others who participate on this NG.
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>> To effect this savings on your five color printer you will need to spend
>> $155 to purchase all the colors needed for replacement at any given time.
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> All of the colors do not go at one time.
Never said they did. I said "purchase all the colors," not change all the
colors, at any given time. About your misinterpreting my post I should
really refrain from saying to you, "incorrect again."
In the 8 months I have had my
> printer I replaced all of the colors one time. Both blacks have not been
> replaced. The price was about $27.00 for the colors. I have not even
> received low warnings on the blacks.
>
>>Effective savings is about $30. No criticism intended. Just stating the
>>facts on savings via Costco OEM Canon carts.
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