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shateredsoul:

--- Quote from: DaveMMR on February 26, 2011, 09:55:40 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 26, 2011, 05:44:30 am ---Getting back on topic a little, I'm still enraged at the fact that I have to go online to buy a hdmi cable that isn't over-priced. 

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I haven't found this to be too big a hassle luckily.   I'm pretty much resigned to buying electronics online now (can't deal with Best Buy and its ilk) and particularly through Amazon.  I'll just throw the $3 HDMI cable in the cart, get free shipping on the whole shebang and it comes fairly quickly.  I'll also throw a spare in my cart if I need to hit that magic $25 mark for free shipping.

(Though it would be helpful to have that Dollarama store nearby if needed it)

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I have amazon prime and am with you, it ships fast and free shipping. Although I think it's funny that Amazon will give you an entire box when you order a small cable. I once ordered a single pen (thinking it was a box of pens), and they sent me a box that looked big enough to hold 2 laptops.. for one pen.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: shmokes on February 26, 2011, 10:13:00 am ---I think he legitimately wonders how this state of affairs is even possible.  Short of coordinated price fixing it doesn't seem like prices should be able to be so absurdly inflated at every single B&M retailer.  Including Walmart.  That last bit gets its own sentence.

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EXACTLY!  I thought the walmart was the king of cheap Chinese crap.  Well my cables are coming from China, and I'm pretty sure they cost much MORE when you order a small amount and don't get bulk shipping. 

Sadly no dollar-rama stores.... I've never even heard of them.  Our dollar tree doesn't carry them though, which I also find odd.  I can buy a three pack of usb cables there for a dollar but not a hdmi cable?  Not even a cruddy one that barely works?

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: shateredsoul on February 26, 2011, 12:07:49 pm ---I have amazon prime and am with you, it ships fast and free shipping. Although I think it's funny that Amazon will give you an entire box when you order a small cable. I once ordered a single pen (thinking it was a box of pens), and they sent me a box that looked big enough to hold 2 laptops.. for one pen.

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I mostly ship this way as well.  And for the big things (like computers, high-end electronics ect) I actually prefer doing it online.  I've shopped that way for years.  The thing is, it used to be that if you needed an accessory for something, like a cable, you could go to a B&M store and pick it up for a similar price to what you would pay online, which is infinately convenient.

On top of that it doesn't seem like a very green practice.  I hate to think that dozens of parcels are being delievered in a small fleet deisel trucks straight to homes when they could just be delivered to a single store that we all shop at anyway.  But I'm not exactly rolling in the money, so I'm not paying 20 extra bucks unless I have to. 

It seriously annoys me that the whole global infrastructure is so back-asswards that we can't do things in a way that makes sense.
Remember when we used to get clean, filtered, water delivered straight through our pipes?  Well we were too good for that weren't we?  Now we have to go to the store and hauls pounds of heavy water to our homes like it's the dark ages!

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 26, 2011, 11:59:14 am ---how'd you like it if someone came to your job and told you to '---fudgesicle--- off' when you were trying to do it?

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The other day a guy came my job and knocked the squeegee out of my hand.  I was like WTF.

Then I noticed it was a standup comic I heckled last month.  Sonofabitch really did it.

hypernova:
You can't be serious...

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