Frustrating

webmanco says on Nov 14, 2007, 05:55:

One of the reasons why I LOVE Bogotá

But, I'm going to start making some assumptions here.... Which means I might actually end up making an ass out of myself ..........Thu 04 17, 2008 11:34 am

john_stark says on Nov 14, 2007, 05:58:

Look on the bright side. That's the price you pay for that sea of chucha floating around you.

Lowell says on Nov 14, 2007, 06:00:

Oh yea, I had my watch serviced. When I sweat the face fogged up. Took it to another place. No fog now, but glued all the function buttons shut. WTF

Alfred E. Newman. "What. Me Worry?"

Lowell says on Nov 14, 2007, 06:22:

Only get to look. Married with 22 month old child

Alfred E. Newman. "What. Me Worry?"

Bunyipcatcher says on Nov 14, 2007, 06:22:

LOL! Its never ending. Heres a couple from the last couple of days....

Telephone guy comes to fix PBX in the office and now alarm system doesnt work. Have them both here arguing over how to sort it out.

On going with ETB to install internet. In a different post I said we would have it last Friday. Well that never happened. Previous tenants farked around with the second line we use to have and when they came to install the internet they couldnt find our second line to install it to. Ok no worries install it to the original line...no we have to put in another work order. Now we figure that the monkey that came would put in the new work order....good service you know....Nope we find out he hasnt and not only that, but we cant get the special price and goodies, because the special finished. Hmmm Ive never seen my wife swear so much in Spanish. They copped it good and proper.

Anyways internet here we come......maybe.....

Waterdawg says on Nov 14, 2007, 07:11:

Just another day in Latin America !

spigrimace says on Nov 14, 2007, 12:14:

Lowell one needs to buy things that everyone here has. For example, if some a-hole rips the antenna off my Mazda 323, I know I can go to La Valladera (Medellín) and get one off the 1000´s of stolen and parted out 323s down there. BMW parts? Not too easy, even for a 325.

Lose your Remote for the TV? Go to CC La Cascada and you have a good chance of finding one really easy if it´s the 21 inch Flat screen Samsung that they´ve sold here for the last 5 years. If it´s the Hitachi 50 inch only sold in Japan but gringo who bought it in Tokyo, shipped it to the USA and then brought it down here, forget it.

Have you been to TINK about the cartridge? They have everything or can get it for you rapidly. They also refill them.

Electric shaver can be tough and cannot help ya there. Those types of things you buy in bulk in US/Europe and bring them here on trips back and forth.

The "screw" was such a metaphor, I´m surprised you didn´t see it coming.



Cheers

tomtom33 says on Nov 14, 2007, 14:26:

Porque vivimos aqui.

I added Comcel to my list and told them to go fuck themselves. I got a Movistar post-pay plan...I think. The phones won't be activated until Friday.

pedro says on Nov 14, 2007, 14:47:

Yeah, Comcel is a funny one. When I first moved to Colombia, I went to see them about signing up a postpaid plan. The person at the sales outlet said "without a carta laboral, you can't sign up".

Now that I switched to Movistar and stopped regularly buying 50k recharges at Comcel, they message me offering promotional rates. I get calls from their sales call centre offering postpaid plans without credit check. There might be some reason I don't qualify for the offer, but to be honest I never followed them up on it. I'm already switched away from them to Movistar and don't want to switch again.

que nota!

expatriate says on Nov 14, 2007, 15:09:

Lowell, you can get cartridges refilled on most streets pretty cheaply. When it is ready, after about a half hour, bring in your printer, and have them prove that the refilled cartridge works.

Second best, or maybe first best, is to buy a new printer when you run out of ink. I bought a new Canon Pixma ip1600 (with ink) for less than the cost of buying two new ink cartridges. Two new cartridges, black, and tri-color, were more than the cost of a new printer. The printer, with ink, which works beautifully, costs about $32, less than half the cost of new ink cartridges. Bizarre, huh?

You also might shop around for ink prices before deciding on a printer.

Shopping online, I have also notice that in the U.S., a new, fairly cheap electric shaver costs less than changing the screen and blade. There is not much difference between Colombia and back home.

With motorcycles, in the U.S. I had bad luck also with Honda parts and Service managers that would swear at me and intimidate me if I tried to take back an unused, clean part, until I started buying Kawasakis, which from a fix it yourself point of view, were built like precision machinery. The Hondas were built very poorly. You needed an impact driver to unscrew a phillip's head screw, plus one time I changed the oil by myself. I was twisting on the oil tank screw, and part of the oil tank twisted off with it.

Anyway Lowell, Best Wishes.

tomtom33 says on Nov 14, 2007, 15:38:

The refill cartridges do not print photos very well at all. The new printers come with much less ink than you'd normally get when buying cartridges.

Lowell says on Nov 14, 2007, 16:16:

My origional cartridge was flawed. No help. Found that out when refilling both cartridges. I'm forced into buying a new one. If I wasn't such a cheap SOB I'd toss my printer. Bottom line I think its a good model. I also saw it for sale at Carefour. Lexmark P6250. The fools even replaced the origional printer as they didn't know what the problem was. And this is at one of the more popular stores in town.

Whats up with the cost of cartridges? Do they have gold in them? Or is it another screw the buying public scam?

Alfred E. Newman. "What. Me Worry?"

slguy says on Nov 14, 2007, 16:25:

Don't feel bad, Lowell. Cartridges even here in Florida are ridiculous. I also have a Pixma, an all-in-one model that does incredible things with ink/paper. But buying all new catridges? $80. I think the printer industry has changed strategies. The printers come cheap, but bend over when you need more ink...

Before you throw me out, make sure I pay my bar tab

Tinto (Moderator) says on Nov 14, 2007, 17:09:

Read a financial report from Hewlett Packard some time. They make a huge portion of their profits from the ink, not the printers. They have followed the Gillette model - give away the razor and charge like hell for the replacement blades/cartridges.

http://www.ebusinessforum.com/index.asp?doc_id=7159&layout=rich_story
$8000 a gallon for printer ink!

alezzz says on Nov 14, 2007, 23:55:

ebay

---Music is the strongest form of magic.---

la campiña says on Nov 15, 2007, 00:18:

music is the strongest drug

Lowell says on Nov 15, 2007, 08:41:

What would it cost to get a chemical breakdown of that liquid gold and make some generic stuff?

Alfred E. Newman. "What. Me Worry?"