Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Normally, I buy stuff in brick and mortar when it's urgent and I check on amazon about the reviews before I pick it up. I did not do so this time as I had a "scan emergency" at my new place and needed to get something digital to someone fast, like that day. So I went to my local Best Buy and didn't go online to check reviews. I should have. Printer blows like a fan. I've been using it intermittently to print for about 2 months, nothing heavy-duty, and I'm already out of black ink. "WTF," you say? Well, it gets better: I'm out of black ink and order a cartridge from Amazon.com. I mainly need it to print b&w documents anyway, not color. I pop in the black in and start printing b&w only papers..."ding!" I'm out of yellow. I'm like, "wait, what?" I'd only been printing black, how can I have depleted yellow? Oh, and guess what: I can't print b&w without the yellow cartridge getting replaced now. And the cartridges, lemme tell you, are NOT cheap. I had an HP printer once before: you could print with that thing until the b&w printouts were grayer than my grandmother's hair. Only when YOU decided you'd hit the wall in terms of readability did you have to get a new printer. I'm going to try to take it back to BBY now. I don't do one-star reviews often, but avoid this and other HP printers at all costs!