This isn’t a rent-seeking, wallet rape bullshit “subscription” (like BMW heated seats), it’s a legitimate subscription service where they just order and ship a product automatically for you on a regular schedule (like Amazon) and give you a discount. Also, you’re not forced to purchase a subscription, you can just buy retail cartridges if you prefer.
This actually makes a lot of sense for people who print regularly and frequently.
Edit: it has been pointed out to me that there is, in fact, some tomfuckery involved with this subscription model
I suppose people are afraid this is the first step towards the awful subscriptions all the other companies milk dry. If brother wanted to be different, you would expect them to be marketing about it right and left.
Before I bought a brother printer, I would just buy and/or refill whatever cartridges I could get for my printers because of HP’s and Canon’s bullshit. Now that I own a Brother, I only buy toner and cartridges directly from them. Vote with your wallets, people.
Actually, I don’t think this is a fitting meme.
This isn’t a rent-seeking, wallet rape bullshit “subscription” (like BMW heated seats), it’s a legitimate subscription service where they just order and ship a product automatically for you on a regular schedule (like Amazon) and give you a discount. Also, you’re not forced to purchase a subscription, you can just buy retail cartridges if you prefer.
This actually makes a lot of sense for people who print regularly and frequently.
Edit: it has been pointed out to me that there is, in fact, some tomfuckery involved with this subscription model
Brother also makes sewing machines and haven’t attempted to put DRM on thread. Yet.
Oh, so like Dollar Shave Club but for printer ink? Really, it’s a little surprising that hasn’t happened before 2023. Or maybe it has?
I suppose people are afraid this is the first step towards the awful subscriptions all the other companies milk dry. If brother wanted to be different, you would expect them to be marketing about it right and left.
Before I bought a brother printer, I would just buy and/or refill whatever cartridges I could get for my printers because of HP’s and Canon’s bullshit. Now that I own a Brother, I only buy toner and cartridges directly from them. Vote with your wallets, people.