Wednesday Christopher A. S.
Ink subscription scam
There are lots of scams and rip-offs about in today's world. I manage to avoid most of them, but recently I was conned by a major corporation: Hewlett Packard. For just under fifty quid, I bought an A4 desktop printer/scanner that included a subscription to 'Instant Ink', whereby new ink cartridges would be supplied at the point when your printer was running out. I thought it was an option, but it seemed acceptable enough. The wording said that you could cancel the ink subscription at any time, but what it didn't overtly say (must have been in the small print) was that if you cancel they will remotely disable the bloody printer! So now I have a sizeable piece of junk sitting on my desk, and it will be going to the tip after just 6 months of use. Nice move, HP. You used to be a pretty reliable manufacturer, but now I won't touch your products with a barge pole.



