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SNAAKE:
camera virus :laugh2:

fallacy:
I just use Best Buy as an internet show room. I have my iphone with the red eye app and just scan the bar code and it pulls everywhere that item is sold and the prices. Best buy is rarely the best price.

Richard_Nixon:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 31, 2012, 01:24:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on January 31, 2012, 11:14:20 am ---Yeah, the article never went into the deliberate price gouging. Last time I looked, the cheapest HDMI cable is a 3 footer in the $40-$50 range, and I remember the thread about their $1000-$2000 HDMI cables. Any company that does that should have no right to complain that Amazon is "stealing their business".  ::)


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But you know, really EVERY brick and mortar store over-prices their hdmi cables.  The average price for a "cheap one" and your local S-MART  is 30 to 40 bucks. 

The way I figure it if I'm getting that exact same cable shipped directly from China (free shipping I might add) for only 1-2 bucks then they should only charge a MAXIMUM of 5-7 bucks for one.  That's giving them a 100% markup and extra few bucks for "overhead" which I'm fairly convinced doesn't really exist.

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Are you saying overhead doesn't exist or finding an HDMI cable at that price doesn't exist.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Dynex+Direct+-+6'+HDMI+Cable/9343061.p?id=1218088202342&skuId=9343061&st=hdmi cable&cp=1&lp=5

Blux:
Seeing this thread makes me sad >.<  I work on the Geek Squad at Best Buy.

Most of the guys I work with know there ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, but there will always be the retarded ones that say retarded things I guess.

hypernova:
Those exorbitantly priced audioquest cables are still on their site.  HA!

I like BB.  I don't generally have any issues with anybody pushing anything on me.  They generally ask me once when I buy something, and that's it.  If someone comes up to me (which is only one time per visit, if at all) I tell them I don't need any assistance.

I will not buy any big ticket items on the internet.  TVs and such will be bought in stores.  I'm not wasting a vacation/sick day just to wait for my stuff that the deliveryman might not even deliver on time...or in one piece.  And I'm certainly not leaving a large box outside that looks suspiciously like a 50+ inch television for anyone to take while I'm still working if I don't take that vacation/sick day.

The article never mentioned BB's failed attempts at market share in China by opening their stores there.  I believe there were 7 or 8 initially, and all have been shuttered.  They instead took over an existing name that I've forgotten that already is a staple there.

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