We seem to live in such a disposable society.
When we got our current computer at home some years back we got a scanner and a printer to go with it. The printer worked well for quite some time but developed a couple of minor issues more recently. Nothing we couldn’t work around but annoying at times.
The scanner’s still OK but it can be a little noisy and occasionally temperamental.
We recently ran out of coloured ink for the printer and so Pauline was looking to get a replacement cartridge. The strange thing was she found that with a current cash back offer, it would be cheaper to buy a brand new combined printer and scanner unit complete with ink than to buy a colour cartridge for our old printer.
So the choice was between buying a colour cartridge for a printer that doesn’t work as well as it could and spending less money to replace both the printer and scanner with a brand new unit.
I suppose you know which option we took.
It really doesn’t make any sense does it? The new unit has the advantage of newer technology and it certainly takes up less space than the two previous units.
So many devices these days have dropped in price so much that it’s cheaper to replace items than to have a technician fix even the simplest of faults.
Have you found similar circumstances? Is it a good thing? What are the downsides to our throw away mentality?
By the way, we will be finding a new home for the old items so that they don’t end up clogging up landfill sites.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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