People are finally figuring out that Monster Cables are overpriced!

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ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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I stopped at Bernie's Appliance store today, a local Connecticut appliance chain that was going out of business today. Everything in the store was at least 80% off, and most of the shelves were completely empty... except for shelf with Monster Cable products on it. It still had a pretty good selection of products on that shelf... mostly analog cables and iPod accessories.

You could tell why these parts were still on the shelves... even with the 80% discount, they still wanted $12 for RCA cables and $15 for fairly generic looking speaker cables.

Anyway, it made me smile... perhaps we're finally getting the word out about what a fraud Monster products are.
 
Andrew1990

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Its actually pretty easy to con customers into buying a Monster HDMI. Most dont know wtf you are talking about and they want the BEST cable.

Us guys at work compete at how many we can sell per week. lol

Good old commission based jobs...
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

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the most expensive items are still on the shelf at a going out of business sale...

SHOCKER
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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purbeast0 said:
the most expensive items are still on the shelf at a going out of business sale...

SHOCKER
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I hope you mean most overpriced... They had a ton of big LCD and Plasma TV's there just a week ago when they just 40% off of retail, and ALL of them were gone today.... along with all of the furniture and almost every single appliance.
 
Number1

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Rudeguy said:
Monster makes high quality products that are well worth every cent.
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When you get a good deal on a TV or a home theater, you need cables to go with it. Most people want to be able to enjoy their system when they get home therefor they buy the cable they need no mater what the cost.

The stores need to make some money somewhere.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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Number1 said:
When you get a good deal on a TV or a home theater, you need cables to go with it. Most people want to be able to enjoy their system when they get home therefor they buy the cable they need no mater what the cost.

The stores need to make some money somewhere.
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Heh... that's why I ordered my cables online a week before I picked up my new TV on Black Friday :)
 
God Mode

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Number1 said:
When you get a good deal on a TV or a home theater, you need cables to go with it. Most people want to be able to enjoy their system when they get home therefor they buy the cable they need no mater what the cost.

The stores need to make some money somewhere.
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If a business needs to rip people off no matter the reasons, its a pretty shit business model. Until I see the employees, ceos and all driving used fords, I may shop at their stores out of necessity but I dont give in to their justifications for a shit business model that rely on gullible people for profits.
 
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nageov3t

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I'd love to see someone to a study testing the same ultra high-end tv/BR player hooked up with monster cables via generic monocable cables and see if anyone can tell the difference... involve some monster engineers in it too.
 
3chordcharlie

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God Mode said:
If a business needs to rip people off no matter the reasons, its a pretty shit business model. Until I see the employees, ceos and all driving used fords, I may shop at their stores out of necessity but I dont give in to their justifications for a shit business model that rely on gullible people for profits.
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Well, most of us exploit those same idiots for profit (and by profit, I mean discount electronics).

The store relies on idiots to hand them the 20-30% extra they probably should be charging (to be profitable on TVs, etc) in return for some cheap wire and a 3 year warranty.

We rely on the store to sell us our TVs at roughly invoice price, and then politely (or sometimes less politely) decline the salesperson's offer to help us with those wires and warranties.

So really, everyone wins.
 
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spidey07

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You passed up a good deal. Monster cables are very well made and at the prices you listed a nice deal.
 
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marincounty

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The definition of a con is when the victim still thinks he got a good deal. Bose for example. At least Monster makes a decent product at an outrageous price, Sony makes a good product at a decent price. Bose...
 
Miramonti

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How can they be overpriced if they are, like, 1000x better than anything else?
 
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3chordcharlie said:
Well, most of us exploit those same idiots for profit (and by profit, I mean discount electronics).

The store relies on idiots to hand them the 20-30% extra they probably should be charging (to be profitable on TVs, etc) in return for some cheap wire and a 3 year warranty.

We rely on the store to sell us our TVs at roughly invoice price, and then politely (or sometimes less politely) decline the salesperson's offer to help us with those wires and warranties.

So really, everyone wins.
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I place very little value in "middlemen" unless they offer something genuinely valuable to me. Service and warranty is nickel and dimed and you often go through loops to even get that. The knowledgable consumers are the ones subsidizing the needs of the stupid consumers by requiring businesses to have bloated service personnel and support and other profit loss prevention.

In the case of B&M stores, I dont remember the last time I had a question on an item I wanted to buy nor do I remember when I last asked or called for support. Its simple as reading the manual and having some common sense. Without middlemen, prices for many items are substantially cheaper. My item might be $100 from a store but if you purchased directly from my warehouse, I give a generous return warranty and I sell it for less than half the cost at the store. All we need is usps,ups and fedex for their transport capabilities.
 
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