Ink Adventures

On installing my printer it became clear that my cartridges are either undetectedly empty or unfixably borked, so I went off to the highstreet to find new ones.

Last time - not a year ago - it went like this.

"Hi, I have a HP PSC 1500 printer I'd like black and coloured ink for"
"Let me sell you this combo pack for under 25 euro"

This time it went like this:
"Hi, I have a HP PSC 1500 printer I'd likea combo pack of black and coloured ink for"
"You have what kind of printer?"
"HP PSC 1500"
...
"... doesn't exist. Are you sure it's not a 1510?"
"It says 1500 on the side."
"Oh. Well maybe it'll take the same cartridges as the 1510. We have normal size black, 22 euro, or hyooog black, 35 euro."
"Whoa. I also need colour."
"Well, We have normal size colour, 25 euro, or hyooog colour 37 euro."
"So I'd need to buy seperate colour and black?"
"Yes. That'll be 47 euro, or 72 euro."
"Fuck that. Last time I bought a combo pack. It was about 25 euro I recall."
*looks at me like I've just asked him for a flux capacitor for my desktop printer*
"I bought it right here."
*deer in headlights look*
"I'll just go and check what the number on the current cartridge is."

(and buy my ink online!)