Pathetic HP corporate BS.

[bcas]

I just replaced a couple ink cartridges with brand news ones that purchased
today.

Printer's clock correctly says it is: Wednesday, 2009-09-23

But, for the brand-new cartridges just installed today:

First Installation Date (Y-M-D): 2009-09-17
Expiration Date (Y-M-D) : 2011-10-15

How ****ing pathetic do they have to be to even shave days off?

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Be happy it didn't decide to shave off a year or so.

Were the cartridges properly wrapped when you bought them,
or is it possible someone bought them, installed them and then returned
them to the store?

Art

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[Arthur Entlich]

I realize this is off topic, and also I would probably have responded
similarly to yourself had it happened to me, but there is some logic to
this on the tire store's part.

Tires do not only wear out when their tread depth wears to a certain
point. Tires age due to weather, UV, use, all of which can weaken the
treads, cause breakdown that leads to a blowout or tread separation, all
of which can be very dangerous if it happens to occur while you are
driving quickly, on hot pavement or making an emergency maneuver.

This may place the tire store in a liability position because their
repair of the tire (putting a new valve stem in the wheel) could be
construed as an endorsement of the state of the tire.

Also, in some rare cases, the sidewall may be compromised due to age (it
can become brittle, or weak, and removing the tire from the wheel rim to
install the valve stem, cause damage the tire's sideway.

As a result some larger chains have made it a policy of not servicing
older tires.

Art

If you are interested in issues surrounding e-waste,
I invite you to enter the discussion at my blog:

http://e-trashtalk.spaces.live.com/

 

[Don Phillipson]

This may place the tire store in a liability position because their
repair of the tire (putting a new valve stem in the wheel) could be
construed as an endorsement of the state of the tire.

Legal liability varies between countries e.g.:
1. Outside the USA, without a statute on the topic,
no judge is likely to interpret making a requested repair
as a warranty for road-worthiness.
2. Nor would many American judges.
3. But some American juries well might.
A related point is that legal liability is recognised at court
only by judges in most jurisdictions: but Americans are
used to leaving this to juries.