Feb 22
Did you know that you need to pay EXTRA to plug in a new appliance? That’s right, just because you spend thousands of dollars on an appliance does not mean it comes with the cord you need in which to plug it in to operate it. Mmm hmm. You need to pay an extra $9.99 for the power cord. When the hell did this become acceptable??? For every appliance maker out there nickel and diming the paying public by charging them for the luxury of operating their own appliance, shame on you and I hex your own appliances so you two may have to pay such a ridiculous fee for something that should be included!!
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Not that it’s a good excuse, but they do this because this enables them to make an appliance that will essentially work in all markets. For example, a customer in the US just purchases the US version of the power cord and the customers in the UK, India, China, etc purchase their respective cords but the appliances themselves are all exactly the same.
Cisco does this with routers and switches.