Amazon Ruined Online Shopping

Re:Amazon Ruined Online Shopping by e40 on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:20PM (#18954972)

For a lot of stuff, I agree. For certain things, though, Best Buy is a complete ripoff. I once went to get an HDMI cable and all that had was a $100 gold plated one. I walked up to the guy in that department and told him I knew this was a scam and he agreed. I told him I'd not buy anything from them and wait the 2 days to get a $5 one from Amazon. Best Buy isn't doing themselves any favors by this behavior.

There's a mom and pop computer store down the street. I went in for a USB cable that I really needed and ended up paying > $20 for that should have been less than $5. I never went back.

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Re:Amazon Ruined Online Shopping by rblatz on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:41PM (#18955122)

I’m not sure when you had this experience but Best Buy has wised up and started offering reasonably priced cables. They now sell HDMI cables starting at $9.99

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dynex-4-hdmi-cable-black/616587...

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Re:Amazon Ruined Online Shopping by Wowfunhappy on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:05AM (#18957785)

Whoa, that's new! Even as of a couple years ago, all their HDMI cables cost a good 5x what was reasonable.

I was going to note that $10 for a 4 foot cable, while fairly reasonable, still isn't a great price. But, there's also this[1] one, which is $7, supports 4K, and is 6 feet long. And, both of these are cables are actually available at my local store for immediate pickup.

[1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dynex-6-4k-ultra-hd-hdmi-cable-...

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Re:Amazon Ruined Online Shopping by ams6110 on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:32PM (#18961897)

Same thing mobile providers do. E.g. the phone is pretty reasonably priced but things like car charging cables, cases, etc are marked up 10x. They are relying on people not really looking at the cost of the accessories and/or immediate need (I lost my charging cable and need one now).

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Re:Amazon Ruined Online Shopping by neuralRiot on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:52PM (#18973464)

I do AV integration installs and buy a lot of small stuff like cables, adapters and more on https://www.monoprice.com the products are pretty good quality and reasonably priced.

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