HDMI Cable Scam

[fitty76]

If you're buying a new TV for Black Friday don't let the electronic store employee try to sell you $100 HDMI cable. All digital signals are the SAME. A $5 HDMI cable is exactly the same as $100 one. Just a bit of advice.

If you need cheap HDMI cables try this site. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/

[PantherBrew]

No, but I am looking for cheap, high quality jerseys.

[Ja Rhule]

If you're buying a new TV for Black Friday don't let the electronic store employee try to sell you $100 HDMI cable. All digital signals are the SAME. A $5 HDMI cable is exactly the same as $100 one. Just a bit of advice.

If you need cheap HDMI cables try this site. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/

Wrong!!!

It's $0.99 on amazon and not $5 :cornut:

[Jangler]

Anybody that buys a TV before Christmas should be ripped off. :D

[Chimera]

I bought 5 for $4 (total, not each) on amazon a few years back.

Needed 4, 1 extra in case one didn't work. The extra is still rolled up.

[Hairless Cat]

rep for fitty - we arent all up on this tech stuff

[Hawk]

how about hookers and blow...what's your advice there?

[tight lines]

You should just call this the accessories scam. The prices on all cabling, chargers, cases etc are ridiculous at stores like these. This can be as simple as the $25 usb cables.

The lure you in with decent prices (decent used liberally) and the sock it to you on all the things you need to make it work.

[pstall]

also, don't fall for the surround sound scam. sorry, but the human brain can only hear in stereo. nothing extra

[charlotte49er]

also, don't fall for the surround sound scam. sorry, but the human brain can only hear in stereo. nothing extra

You mean all my Quad LP records from the 70's are worthless? Peter Frampton in Quad! Now that rocks! :puke:

Try listening to Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" in Quad! If you are the least little bit high when that starts circling around the room, (3:30 mark) your brain will go into sensory overload! In stereo it's something.

[Jase]

don't fall for the 'high definition' scam. the human eye can only interpret 256 colors, 600X800 at 10 hz.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

don't fall for the 'high definition' scam. the human eye can only interpret 256 colors, 600X800 at 10 hz.

son of a bitch!

[Niner National]

You should just call this the accessories scam. The prices on all cabling, chargers, cases etc are ridiculous at stores like these. This can be as simple as the $25 usb cables.

The lure you in with decent prices (decent used liberally) and the sock it to you on all the things you need to make it work.

You'd actually be surprised how little markup there is in non-accessory electronics. I worked at Sears while I was in college and would often scan things with our inventory scanners just to see what the store's cost for them was. We often sold TV's for cost or less than cost. Many of them were marked up only $10-50. Accessories are usually marked up several hundred percent.

I made only 1% commission on televisions, but 9% on accessories, so I made more money selling a $200 wall mount than a $1500 television.

[pstall]

don't fall for the 'high definition' scam. the human eye can only interpret 256 colors, 600X800 at 10 hz.

correct