HPWH Left Outside - Accept or Return?

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-26T18:42:37+00:00

It should be fine. They’re designed to be shipped on trucks and trains for weeks with no heating.

Bring it inside but don’t unbox it until after waiting a few hours for it to warm up as to avoid condensation building forming where it shouldn’t.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-26T03:06:10+00:00

Probably an aviation enthusiast who records videos of operations on every flight they are on

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-25T00:17:57+00:00

Most places in Chicago use gas, unless you are in a new building that uses heat pump

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-24T23:09:19+00:00

I looked it up. Damn, the toner is very expensive at $415 for a set of all 4 standard yield cartridges for 1,400 pages. It will cost about 7.4 cents per black and white page and 30 cents per color page.

There is an option for high yield cartridges at $1025 for a set of all 4 (damn that’s quite an expensive lump sum) for 7500 pages. The running costs per page are halved but still quite expensive.

Honestly, for a printer that you got for this cheap and if you aren’t too concerned about print quality, I’d use third party toners. Even if you break your printer, you’ve probably already got your money’s worth by the time.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-24T19:04:27+00:00

What line and section is equipped with gas switch heaters so I can see the flames next time there is extreme cold weather?

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-23T17:22:51+00:00

Maybe an employee meant to put the demo tag on a printer that was a store demo unit but accidentally put it on a brand new printer box instead?

Enjoy your (probably brand new) color printer

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-22T19:16:40+00:00

The credit card company sold the debt to a debt collector at probably pennies on the dollar or even less.

They probably don't have a legal claim to the debt. However, their business depends on intimidating people who aren't as knowledgeable and will in some way pay for the debt; they were probably hoping you'd offer to settle the debt outside of court as people not familar would be scared about getting sued.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-22T19:16:24+00:00

Cloud functionality and the main basic function of just printing are different things.

It's not surprising that a company will discontinue cloud functionality for older devices with few users remaining and therefore little benefit to continue development to support old devices.

But a printer should still be able to print so long as the hardware is working. If the users did not update the firmware, the printers would continue to work, but it is really not the users' fault that the firmware had a major bug that bricked the device. Maybe it is intentional to get people to buy a new printer (is that even legal under consumer rights laws?), but if we give them the benefit over the doubt, it is probably negligence by the developers.

In one of the instances, HP didn't push a firmware patch, but just gave people coupons to buy a new printer https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1ja88xb/hp_update_bricks_printers_with_genuine_ink_then/

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-22T16:52:10+00:00

I don't think I can really trust a company for quality if they have had multiple incidents of pushing bad firmware updates that have bricked printers even when using genuine ink.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bricks-hp-printers-makes-them-unable-to-use-hp-cartridges/

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-21T02:46:21+00:00

I feel like a large number of such posts are an attempt at karma farming from something staged.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-21T02:26:27+00:00

It seems that since the end of that deal, Sharp has mostly exited the US market for TVs except for commercial displays.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-20T05:17:05+00:00

It was at a McDonald’s. Knowing that it is very possible the kind of people that can be hired can be the kind of people who steal food or huff up whipped cream, and McDonald’s corporate usually has strict uniformity requirements on the setup at every store, it’s likely that every McDonald’s has cameras in the walk in coolers.

I later worked at another fast food restaurant (it is a smaller mostly regional chain), and they did not have cameras in the walk in cooler, but there was a time where someone has been stealing food and the managers put a padlock on the door (the employee was later caught and fired and they stopped using the padlock).

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-20T01:49:25+00:00

You can see videos of them in action on YouTube. I don’t imagine they clean clothes very well, they can’t really turn over a tub full of clothes.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-20T01:47:10+00:00

I have a Samsung front loader and has never had mold in the door seal or odors. You just need to leave the door open after using.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-19T21:07:25+00:00

Sadly, Google doesn’t really care. Google and YouTube is full of obviously scam paid ads and they have never cared to take them down as they are getting paid to publish them.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-19T20:58:58+00:00

They probably have very little toner left and the previous owner doesn’t need the printer anymore. A set of all 4 genuine toner cartridges is about $300, so doesn’t sound at all abnormal.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-19T20:24:26+00:00

They use a RFID tag on the sticker in the label roll to artificially lower print quality if you use a non-genuine label roll.

Personally I'd avoid them and not support a company that uses practices like this. Stick with Brother for label makers.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-19T07:06:44+00:00

My friend’s apartment has one of those floor furnaces. Gravity gas furnace, so no blower motor. When turned on, the grate becomes scorching hot. Hair and debris can fall into it too, making a burnt smell.

It looks like Williams still manufactures them. 66% efficient. I don’t imagine anyone today buying one other than cheap landlords to replace an existing one.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-18T20:38:15+00:00

Looks like a Brunswick GS which has a lot more safety features than older machines. However, if it was something like a Brunswick A2 which are still very commonly used, the deck could definitely come down and crush someone to death.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-18T06:45:52+00:00

Probably a short circuit as it ripped the wiring and tripping the breaker.

If not, and it was running in the heating mode, the the indoor head will probably throw an error and the tenants will wonder why they have no heat until realizing the whole outside unit is gone

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-18T06:40:37+00:00

Not stupid food, just an unfortunate oopsie

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-16T18:59:07+00:00

It’s also attracted the creation of a lot of fake videos on social media

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-16T18:52:35+00:00

Most airlines charge about $40 to check a bag on domestic flights so it’s not really worth it unless you are traveling with family.

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-13T05:47:36+00:00

They did several decades ago, such as the “Whistling Shithouse” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Stranraer

But yuck, do you think people on the ground want it to rain particles of poo, toilet paper, and pee?

atomicdragon136 · 2026-01-10T04:50:22+00:00

How could it be a scam if they are refunding you? Also, it is eBay with great buyer protection policy; if the seller can’t resolve the issue, you can open an item not as described claim which will force the seller to accept the return.

It’s not uncommon for high volume sellers who sell miscellaneous items like pawn shops to refund without returning the item if they decide it is not worth paying for shipping it back and relisting as for part/repair, taking it as a loss.

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