26 Years on the No Buy List

I read somewhere that 26 years is the average time that a customer will hold a grudge against a company that they feel has used them poorly. I think the short time span has to do more with the arbitrary cut off point, physical death. I know that I plan to hold grudges against certain companies way after the grave, but since I will no longer have control of my finances I can understand that the companies don`t caring about my feelings in the matter once I shake off the mortal coil and condenser. What I don`t understand is the lack of care shown by certain companies before the grim ripper stripes us of our fiduciary duties?

Epson is already on the list of companies I will never buy from because of their ink counter computer printer scheme that made it impossible to use all the ink in an ink cartage or refill that cartage because the ink counter printed electronically on the cartage that is was empty/no longer good/unsable even if there is still ink in it, which there always was. These screw the customer ideas must sound so good in the bean counter meetings.

Ford is big on my hate parade (all of that model is defective, therefore we don`t have to fix it). And I don`t have to buy one of your damn cars ever again. Why oh why are Americans buying foreign cars? Why do you tools need a bail out? The customer is always ripe for a screwing.

Add to the list of companies I will never buy from again, Canon. The evil scheme, Waste Ink Absorber Full message after a certain number of prints (about 4 years) have been made. This message comes up and the printer is useless, finished, has to be replaced even thou it is still able to print if you can some how turn off the damn error. Planned obsolesces. Make them replace their printer. More sales for us.

I am in the middle of the rush up to Comic Con and I have wasted 2 days on this piece of shit manufactured in problem. I have found thousands of other people pissed off about this problem out on the Internet. I have found, after long search, a utility that is said to reset the counters that turns off the printer (of course it does not work) but the one thing I have not found is any mention of this setting in the manual or on the Canon web site. Time bomb, your screwed, buy another printer.

Canon, intercourse yourselves! I am going out and buying a new printer today, just like you planned, but it won`t be one of yours. I will never buy another Ford, Epson or Canon product in this or any other carnation. You have made the list Canon and I just might last longer than 26 years. The men in my family most times make 99.