Thank you, Amazon!

[pne]

So I bought myself a new printer as a slightly early Christmas present (from Stella, too, since she contributed to it).

I had also ordered a USB cable from Amazon, which was suggested as a typical “customers who bought this [printer] also bought this [cable]” accompaniment. (Though I ended up buying the printer from a local dealer, they were out of the black ink cartridge, so I bought that and the cable on Amazon.)

It had a little gimmick: it would light up if it’s connected, so you could tell when it has power.

Unfortunately, it ended up being too short: 6 feet (1.8 m) is not enough to reach from my computer around my desk to where my printer sits against the wall.

So I went to return the thing… and Amazon offered to let me keep the item but get a refund anyway! So yay!

Perhaps it’ll come in handy at some point, or someone else might like it. Either way, I’ll get my money back.

That was nice of them!

Comments

[schnurble]

Wow, that was really nice of them! So you bought an ink printer?
We found that we seldom print out stuff, and ususally the ink cartridges get dry after a few uses. So we have a laser printer now, they aren't very expensive anymore and the toner lasts for ages...

[pne]

Yes, an all-in-one device that uses ink cartridges for printing (and copying). Mostly because I had always had an HP ink printer so far...

I don't print all that much, either, but hadn't had problems with ink cartridges running dry so far. Will see what happens here :)