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Re: OMG!

In article <c65_200105070616@juge.com> you wrote:
: It is not unprecidented for someone to spend more for use of a machine than it
: cost to buy it.  These ccheap printers come to mind.  Also game machines.  You
: spend almost as much for a cartridge for a printer than you do on the printer
: itself.  A game machine is $150 (?) and good games can be $80.  So it doesn't
: take long to pay more for software than you did for the base model.

In all probability, these printers and games consoles are cheap because the
manufacturer expects to make money from the ink and game cartridges.  Hook
the consumer with the low price, then make them pay down the road.  This is
a marketing strategy.

Byron.