UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:I checked Lexmark's website / Online shop last night, they are selling a 2 metre USB cable for printers @ £19.99, so I guess that is the reason they don't include them they are hoping some stupid people will come along and buy one at that price
I think you just hit the nail on the head there.....and this sort of thing is rife in the hi-fi industry.
e.g. If you've bought some speakers in the "good old days", they'd come with maybe a pair of 2 or 3 yard cables (I did say "old days" - pre-metric !!).
Then shops found out that "better" cables were available, so they'd try and sell you the improved cables, meaning the ones in the box usually got discarded. Soon as the makers found out, they saved themselves a few bob and left the cables out - thereby allowing dealers to sell "better" cables at the same time as when the customer bought the speakers.
Nowadays, most British hi-fi brands don't include cables in the box with most items, allowing their dealers to make a further profitable sale to the customer (of the appropriate cables and connectors).
You'd be surprised by the number of people I met who would actually ask to buy, say, Mission speaker cable, or Sony Tape Recorder leads, just because it had the brand name on it.....(and therefore it was "right" for them). They wouldn't accept anything else....
And in the same way, I s'pose someone in Lexmark marketing thought "if a customer buys our printer and we don't include a cable for it, then we'll sell lots of Lexmark cables, coz people are dumb and will want the same branded cable as the printer.....so, they'll pay (almost) any price....and we can clean up...."
There's one born every minute....!
regards
Tim
(a bit like IrDA or 802.11 ??)
