Instant Ink - why the massive price increase?

[DodgyCharacter]

I've just had an e-mail from Instant Ink saying that they're going to increase my subscription by 50% (Yes, 50%!!!). How on earth can this be justified?

[Michael-TO]

I have been notified, too, of HP’s huge price increase.  In my case (in Canada, under a 50-page-per-month plan), the increase is over 25.5%, and I have only been under a paid plan for 4 months!  This increase is nothing short of reprehensible and disgraceful.

While the footnotes to the HP E-mail say that the increase is the result of a “process where HP regularly makes adjustments based on costs”, the level of increases cannot be justified by any reasonable measure, over any reasonable period of time. 

This will forever sour what had been a very long relationship with HP and its products.