You are wrong. I purchased a Monster HDMI cable for a day to compare that name-brand cable to a $7 HDMI cable I got from Monoprice. During the checkout the kid at the register chuckled that he just bought the exact same thing for half the listed price. This was at Best Buy, and employees are (or were) charged 5% over the store's cost. So, the $100 list price went for $50 for the employee.
BTW, at 10 foot lengths I could not perceive a visual difference between the two cables using the same source (Sony PS3, Toshiba HD-A2, and HDMI-fed HTPC with test patterns) and the same display (Vizio GV42L). Thus, I returned the $100 HDMI cable to Bad Buy and ordered several more HDMI cables from Monoprice.
Since that original testing I have also used a $45 1.3b complaint 4x1 HDMI switch from Monoprice with these sources to feed into an HDMi-to-VGA converter to feed a CRT projector that projects onto a 92" diagonal screen. Never would I consider buying something like this in retail again. Heck, online beats Wally World.
If you've never worked there, then you can't comment on the employee price, or assume you heard the price correctly... go bash someone else with your weak ass Vizio "GV42L" ooohhh big woop, you bought a crap TV that'll burn-out in a year or two...
If you knew how business worked, you sell the cheaper shit thats marked up higher to get a bigger profit margin... Why would you sell brand name stuff that 1. sells itself because of the name, 2. returns the least in your investment, 3. makes stupid people like you giggle when you tell people "I have all monster cables on my crappy vizio TV..." Booo for you loser...
I dont know what best buy you guys shop at, but those employees sound useless... If they are selling you a bunch of BS promises, i suggest you leave and hit up the next one... Not all best buys have retards working there...
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You are wrong. I purchased a Monster HDMI cable for a day to compare that name-brand cable to a $7 HDMI cable I got from Monoprice. During the checkout the kid at the register chuckled that he just bought the exact same thing for half the listed price. This was at Best Buy, and employees are (or were) charged 5% over the store's cost. So, the $100 list price went for $50 for the employee.
BTW, at 10 foot lengths I could not perceive a visual difference between the two cables using the same source (Sony PS3, Toshiba HD-A2, and HDMI-fed HTPC with test patterns) and the same display (Vizio GV42L). Thus, I returned the $100 HDMI cable to Bad Buy and ordered several more HDMI cables from Monoprice.
Since that original testing I have also used a $45 1.3b complaint 4x1 HDMI switch from Monoprice with these sources to feed into an HDMi-to-VGA converter to feed a CRT projector that projects onto a 92" diagonal screen. Never would I consider buying something like this in retail again. Heck, online beats Wally World.
If you've never worked there, then you can't comment on the employee price, or assume you heard the price correctly... go bash someone else with your weak ass Vizio "GV42L" ooohhh big woop, you bought a crap TV that'll burn-out in a year or two...
If you knew how business worked, you sell the cheaper shit thats marked up higher to get a bigger profit margin... Why would you sell brand name stuff that 1. sells itself because of the name, 2. returns the least in your investment, 3. makes stupid people like you giggle when you tell people "I have all monster cables on my crappy vizio TV..." Booo for you loser...
I dont know what best buy you guys shop at, but those employees sound useless... If they are selling you a bunch of BS promises, i suggest you leave and hit up the next one... Not all best buys have retards working there...