Agree K-Med. Even though this forum is unlikely read by anyone outside this "troubled group," it's still out in the public for all to see.
I wish Louis Rossman would cover this (https://www.youtube.com/@rossmanngroup)
I'll shoot him an email to a link to this thread.
It really is absurd. And I will keep posting until it's resolved as well. This control-freak nature of the printers has to stop. They'll never be able to stop how people buy their cartridges. Well, off course, if they lowered the cost of their OEM cartridges they could actually control the market then. But they don't want to.