WARNING: Do Not Buy HP Products :WARNING

[groovybluedog]

Hi,

I would just like to very strictly warn users about buying HP products, I have had many HP products so far in my time, And all have been absolute [BLEEP][BLEEP][BLEEP][BLEEP] jank. For example, I got a laptop from them, And it wore out very quick, The repairs from warranty was slow and painful, And support ran out completely after a year, There was absolutely NO WAY to contact them in any way, shape, or form, Which really peed me off, Ill give another example, My HP printer, (Well, The Landfills HP Printer now), Every print i did it asked me to align the cartridges, When i did, The scanner would not scan the printed page, Then it would fail and print really badly, And then i had to take out the cartridges, insert old ones, reinsert new ones, Realign, And it did the same thing, These are only two examples, But my warning,

Do not buy HP products

They are all jank and there are PLENTY of other makes you can buy from.

[Allan]

In your opinion. I've purchased numerous HP products and have been delighted - as has most of the rest of the world.

[BC_Programmer]

Yes, that's more an opinion. The only products from HP I've had experience with our their rather old LaserJet II and III printers, which are absolutely awesome.

The fact is, Inkjet printers are designed as disposable devices now, with expensive refills that serve only as revenue. This is quite unlike most laser printers, which are expensive, have equally expensive toner cartridges, but last for ages. Laptop, regardless of brand and assuming no manufacturing fault, will last for years if well-cared for. (I have a thinkpad that lasted nearly 15 years before finally having a system board failure (it probably would have lasted longer if the battery didn't seep acid into it's nether-regions), as well as a Toshiba laptop that still works and is the same age. Both of these have long scathing articles about their unreliability and obvious flaws written by people jaded by their experience with the product, as well as equal rants that are pretty much the same as yours, but with appropriate manufacturer substitutions.

Additionally, there is a certain personality type that tries to hold the manufacturer responsible for problems that are obviously not theirs, like trying to invoke a warranty when they go sky-diving with a laptop and the screen snaps off at the crucial bounce-back point because they left it open.

The repairs from warranty was slow and painful

"painful"? were they working on your laptop or performing non-anaesthetized surgery on you? metaphor understood of course, but I would hardly consider anything of this sort "painful"... extremely annoying, even aggravating, maybe. But saying that going without what amounts to a luxury of the 1st world "painful" is sort of pushing it.

There was absolutely NO WAY to contact them in any way, shape, or form,

right.

My HP printer, (Well, The Landfills HP Printer now), Every print i did it asked me to align the cartridges, When i did, The scanner would not scan the printed page, Then it would fail and print really badly, And then i had to take out the cartridges, insert old ones, reinsert new ones, Realign, And it did the same thing

This has nothing to do with HP and everything to do with the fact that almost any and all "all-in-one" machines are awful. My printer asks to be aligned every time I plug it in to the computer, and I cannot skip the step. But thankfully because the entire ink-shooty-majig (sorry, technical term ) is shot (or all my cartridges are broken) the paper remains blank. If I'm lucky I can sometimes get a faded and streaked Black and white image. Needless to say, my printer is completely fried as well. On the other hand, it's nearly 5 years old and hasn't always been stored carefully, so it's probably my fault it's broken anyway.

[Salmon Trout]

Why does he keep writing "jank"?

[bobgar34]

I would not consider anything BC_Programmer say`s is "jank" .   The Man is simply brilliant.   

[blackrainbow]

i have use a lot of HP products and i dont ahave any problems

[Salmon Trout]

I would not consider anything BC_Programmer say`s is "jank" .   The Man is simply brilliant.   

Me neither; I was referring to groovybluedog.

[soybean]

Hi,

I would just like to very strictly warn users about buying HP products, I have had many HP products so far in my time, And all have been absolute [BLEEP][BLEEP][BLEEP][BLEEP] jank. For example, I got a laptop from them, And it wore out very quick, The repairs from warranty was slow and painful, And support ran out completely after a year, There was absolutely NO WAY to contact them in any way, shape, or form, Which really peed me off, Ill give another example, My HP printer, (Well, The Landfills HP Printer now), Every print i did it asked me to align the cartridges, When i did, The scanner would not scan the printed page, Then it would fail and print really badly, And then i had to take out the cartridges, insert old ones, reinsert new ones, Realign, And it did the same thing, These are only two examples, But my warning,

Do not buy HP products

They are all jank and there are PLENTY of other makes you can buy from.

Anybody see some irony in his comments.  If he has such a negative opinion about HP products, why has he owned many of them?

And, as far as not being able to contact them on products out of warranty, that's just not true, as BC_Programmer pointed out.  Early this year, I was working on a several year old (long out of warranty) Compaq laptop for the owner. Since the computer would not bootup and the recovery partition also could not be used for a successful restoring of the system, I decided to contact HP, found contact info on their website, and called and asked whether a Recovery disc could be purchased from them.  The customer service rep asked me for a serial # and then informed me that a Recovery disc could be purchased. The cost was about $16, a reasonable cost to get that critical system disc.   

[rthompson80819]

From dictionary.com.

No results found for jank:

If you expect to spend $50 to $70 for a printer/scanner/whatever, and expect high quality, your dreaming, what you get is going to be jank (now he has me doing it).

With an ink jet printer, it's almost cheaper to buy a new printer when the ink runs out, than to buy new ink cartridges.

[Computer_Commando]

From dictionary.com.

If you expect to spend $50 to $70 for a printer/scanner/whatever, and expect high quality, your dreaming, what you get is going to be jank (now he has me doing it).

With an ink jet printer, it's almost cheaper to buy a new printer when the ink runs out, than to buy new ink cartridges.

Google define "jank"

BTW, if it has an inkjet cartridge, I will have none of it.  They are jank!

[rthompson80819]

So jank is really a word?  I never got the memo.

[2x3i5x]

So jank is really a word?  I never got the memo.

Sure, jank is a word but .... it still sounds odd...

[BC_Programmer]

jank isn't a word. It's only in "urbandictionary" and "onlineslangdictionary". If that qualifies it as a word then "lol" and "rofl" and all of those are words as well.

Do you want to live in a world where such things are words?
I know I don't.

[rthompson80819]

Hate to tell you BC.

from dictionary.com

LOL   
abbr. laughing out loud
The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

[soybean]

Hate to tell you BC.

from dictionary.com

What are you saying?  No results at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jank