Lol! @ Monster Cable!

ComputerWizKid

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I was at a used appliance store (Looking for a new range/stove/oven/etc) and I had to laugh when I saw this

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I don't think an electric range needs a Monster Power Cable
is it going to improve the sound or vision of my water boiling or make it boil faster :)

PS: Electric ranges suck but I am stuck with it :mad:
 

kranky

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Don't be a hater.

Monster cables cured my psoriasis, and landscaped my yard.
 

Uppsala9496

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Totally off topic.....you have a sears outlet near you? About 2.5 years ago I bought a nice kenmore electric range with convection oven for under $500. It was reconditioned and carried a 2 year warranty.
Great oven.

In hindsight I should have bought the cheapest POS I could find since I ended up selling the place about 6 months after I bought the range.
 

ComputerWizKid

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Yeah I have a sears outlet close to me (I hate sears but that looks like the cheapest option)

The problem is that I have a range that is only 24" wide although the place where the range is is only 29.5" wide and the standard range is 30" wide

I live in an apartment that supplies appliances, I have the option to buy my own and give the maintenance their POS (The only appliance I wish they supplied was an AC Unit) ones back though which Is why I am trying to find an electric range.

I am hijacking my own thread :whiste:
This thread is now about finding an electric range

So now that the topic is changed :ninja:

How close to the 30" is a standard range?

The setup is cabinet with a sink --> Range -> Cabinet

I have about 3 Inches of extra space on one side and about 2.5 Inches on the other side I say about because it matters how the range is centered in the range space.

Can a newer range still use a 3 Wire cord? because that is all I have

The breaker is a 50Amp
and the wire is 6 gauge copper in a giant spiral looking thing that comes through the floor and the outlet is also on the floor under the range (Which is probably not correct)
 

BUTCH1

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OP, how much was the Monster cord vs the basic one from a hardware store??.
 

Golgatha

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LED status light that's on constantly, so you can continue to waste money well after the original purchase.
 

dawp

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just out of curiosity what was the price on that?

the only time I bought monster cables was around 20 - 25 years ago when their price wasn't so outrageous.
 
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ComputerWizKid

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just out of curiosity what was the price on that?

they wanted $39.99 for it while a regular cord is $15 (This was at the place I saw it) The store is/was one of those shady places (You know the stores that open out of nowhere and are gone in a week or two)

I am going to goto a sear outlet tomorrow though to look at the "Scratch & Dent" ones as I want a cheap one and I don't care about a minor flaw
 

Fritzo

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Menards has Monster cables on clearance all the time. $99 HDMI cables for $19 and so forth. I'm happy to pick them up at that price.
 

stlc8tr

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I was at a used appliance store (Looking for a new range/stove/oven/etc) and I had to laugh when I saw this

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I don't think an electric range needs a Monster Power Cable
is it going to improve the sound or vision of my water boiling or make it boil faster :)

PS: Electric ranges suck but I am stuck with it :mad:

Monster Cable is laughing all the way to the bank. Noel Lee has built a pretty successful company on the backs of folks who buy into this hucksterism.
 

SurelyYouJest

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:awe: Monster cable! Those are so good it will overpower your range! Water will boil in milliseconds! Then a black hole will open and it'll all be gone!
 
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Arkaign

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My story is a grim one, though I shall be brief in the telling. I bought these cables as a kindness to help the old man with whom I lodge although he has a great deal of money of his own, a fact which caused me, I confess, no little grievance. His eating is affected with the digestive difficulties of old age and I believed that a fine electric range power cable would extend the years of his gastronomic pleasure.

I was never sure that he was using them, as I could hear no cooking coming from within his chamber, and he expressed no gratitude that I had done such a generous thing for him - this last, however, though it galled me, surprised me not, as he is by nature a tight, hard, walnut-hearted man, miserly with his feelings even towards those who help him so.

I took to creeping into his chamber in the night to see whether he had cooked anything with his stove covertly, assuming I would be abed and asleep. I could scarcely credit such an act would be possible, even from such a man, but - my hand trembles to record it - I found it so.

Putting my head by degrees within the door of his chamber I discovered him in bed, insensible to my presence, enjoying the freshly cooked food (such scents! such wonderous tastes I now sensed!) a smile of almost lustful joy upon his sunken chops.

How quickly and suddenly my fury rose - that he should know I had struck myself with the direst poverty to increase his gourmet pleasure, yet not to grant me the merest sliver of acknowledgement or gratitude! I was for a moment a madman, and in that instant I leaped within the room and pulled the heavy stove upon him. I checked that he was deceased - his heart beat on for several seconds, muffled as a watch within cotton wool, and then ceased.

I will not trouble you with the gross details of the disposal of the body. Suffice to say that I removed him and his corporeal traces so completely from this earth that when the constables called the next day, inquiring after noises neighbours had heard in the night, I greeted them with utmost equanimity. I invited them in. I threw open all the doors. I took them within the very chamber where I had done the deed. A reckless confidence akin to madness seized me.

'Are these not fine monster power cables?' I cried. 'See, the very cables themselves did cost thousands of dollars; can there be any clearer evidence that I loved the old man?' At that, I promised I would let them taste the marvels of those devilish wires and I went to cook them lunch - or so I intended. To my growing horror, all that emerged from the stove was a beat; a rhythmic, steady beat, growing to a clamour - and muffled no more, but clear, sparkling, crystalline in all its awful clarity, a noise that pronounced my guilt.

'Fiendish cables!' I shrieked. 'Cease your denunciation! I confess! It is the high definition beating of his hideous heart!'
 

SlickSnake

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My story is a grim one, though I shall be brief in the telling. I bought these cables as a kindness to help the old man with whom I lodge although he has a great deal of money of his own, a fact which caused me, I confess, no little grievance. His eating is affected with the digestive difficulties of old age and I believed that a fine electric range power cable would extend the years of his gastronomic pleasure.

I was never sure that he was using them, as I could hear no cooking coming from within his chamber, and he expressed no gratitude that I had done such a generous thing for him - this last, however, though it galled me, surprised me not, as he is by nature a tight, hard, walnut-hearted man, miserly with his feelings even towards those who help him so.

I took to creeping into his chamber in the night to see whether he had cooked anything with his stove covertly, assuming I would be abed and asleep. I could scarcely credit such an act would be possible, even from such a man, but - my hand trembles to record it - I found it so.

Putting my head by degrees within the door of his chamber I discovered him in bed, insensible to my presence, enjoying the freshly cooked food (such scents! such wonderous tastes I now sensed!) a smile of almost lustful joy upon his sunken chops.

How quickly and suddenly my fury rose - that he should know I had struck myself with the direst poverty to increase his gourmet pleasure, yet not to grant me the merest sliver of acknowledgement or gratitude! I was for a moment a madman, and in that instant I leaped within the room and pulled the heavy stove upon him. I checked that he was deceased - his heart beat on for several seconds, muffled as a watch within cotton wool, and then ceased.

I will not trouble you with the gross details of the disposal of the body. Suffice to say that I removed him and his corporeal traces so completely from this earth that when the constables called the next day, inquiring after noises neighbours had heard in the night, I greeted them with utmost equanimity. I invited them in. I threw open all the doors. I took them within the very chamber where I had done the deed. A reckless confidence akin to madness seized me.

'Are these not fine monster power cables?' I cried. 'See, the very cables themselves did cost thousands of dollars; can there be any clearer evidence that I loved the old man?' At that, I promised I would let them taste the marvels of those devilish wires and I went to cook them lunch - or so I intended. To my growing horror, all that emerged from the stove was a beat; a rhythmic, steady beat, growing to a clamour - and muffled no more, but clear, sparkling, crystalline in all its awful clarity, a noise that pronounced my guilt.

'Fiendish cables!' I shrieked. 'Cease your denunciation! I confess! It is the high definition beating of his hideous heart!'

It's posts like this that force me to finally log in and post something. And I was going to post something else about monsters using cables and then eating his liver with some Fava beans, and thought better of it.
 
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Nintendesert

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Menards has Monster cables on clearance all the time. $99 HDMI cables for $19 and so forth. I'm happy to pick them up at that price.



So a $19 ripoff is ok as long as it's not the 15inches of anal rapage the $99 was? :|

That better have been a 50' HDMI cable. :hmm:
 

Sonikku

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Don't laugh. One man came up with the idea of using branding to manipulate gullible people into paying him millions of dollars for cables little better than generic and succeeded. He's probably living almost as well as the ATOT rank and file.
 

Fritzo

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So a $19 ripoff is ok as long as it's not the 15inches of anal rapage the $99 was? :|

That better have been a 50' HDMI cable. :hmm:

:confused:

I know you're used to .99 HDMI cables from Monoprice, but discount stores (Dollar General, Big Lots, etc) sell 6' cables for $12-$14, so $19 for a Monster cable with pivoting ends and high build quality isn't bad at all.
 

T9D

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Bestbuy has generic HDMI cables for like $5 or less. I bought like 4 of them last year.
 

Turin39789

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:confused:

I know you're used to .99 HDMI cables from Monoprice, but discount stores (Dollar General, Big Lots, etc) sell 6' cables for $12-$14, so $19 for a Monster cable with pivoting ends and high build quality isn't bad at all.

Why not just buy from mono?
 

BUTCH1

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Don't laugh. One man came up with the idea of using branding to manipulate gullible people into paying him millions of dollars for cables little better than generic and succeeded. He's probably living almost as well as the ATOT rank and file.

Really, it's true, he realized the ignorance of a percentage of the masses is enough to make this a very successful company. We here at AT started hacking, building computers back in the '80's so we would not fit his "demographic" and get to make jokes about the stupidity of folks who buy Monster product but in the end he's probably a millionaire many times over by utilizing ignorance, brilliant if you think about it..
 

Arkaign

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It's posts like this that force me to finally log in and post something. And I was going to post something else about monsters using cables and then eating his liver with some Fava beans, and thought better of it.

:) Lurker called forth from the depths! Victory!!!