It is well known in the business world that buying bulk is cheap.
About half a year ago, I purchased about 30 ink cartridge for my ink-jet printer. I felt fairly happy that I took this bold step, and congratulating myself on making a good business decision. Fast forward 6 months, yesterday, while printing, I needed a new cartridge, and when I retrieved a box, I discover that the cartridge in this box was empty (in fact an entirely empty cartridge packaged in a brand new box.) Since it's been 6 months, I've long lost the receipts, and who sold me these cartridge..... What a smart business to do this?? Even if I found it at time of purchase, it would still be a bit of fuss before I can get them to replace this defective cartridge.
To do for future purchase:
sample: open some fraction of the packages(maybe 5 of 30) uniformly sampled from the box, or preferring the bottom, since this would decrease the likelihood of timely discovery. Make sure that these cartridge don't look obviously broken or used as was the case.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Monday, March 05, 2007
more Credit Card issues
Note, that 0% APR ballance transfer has:
- Finance charges (a percentage, but often with an upper limit)
- Very high interest rates after the offer period expires.
- And that you cannot write a check for the entire credit line: leave room to pay for finance charges.
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