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A pal of head BoingBoinger Mark has stumbled across an unbelievable $2.49 per file 'virus scanning' charge levied by Staples when customers bring in documents to be printed. Another former Staples employee writes in to say that the fee is more of a document handling type of thing, with an initial $2.49 plus $99 per file charge, just because it's more of a pain to deal with files than to copy something from paper to paper.
A pal of head BoingBoinger Mark has stumbled across an unbelievable $2.49 per file ‘virus scanning’ charge levied by Staples when customers bring in documents to be printed. Another former Staples employee writes in to say that the fee is more of a document handling type of thing, with an initial $2.49 plus $99 per file charge, just because it’s more of a pain to deal with files than to copy something from paper to paper.
Anyway you slice it, it’s highway robbery. (Thanks, Danilo!)
Staples Charges for Virus Scanning [BoingBoing]
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