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It's great for a big-ticket, low-margin purchase like an MBP, but poor for cheap, high-margin items like cables and accessories. Which is, of course, where the
by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
It's great for a big-ticket, low-margin purchase like an MBP, but poor for cheap, high-margin items like cables and accessories. Which is, of course, where they really make money.
They'll price match a laptop to Amazon, but cannot price match a $2 Ethernet patch cable because they're retail space, not a warehouse.
- segmondy 8y agoI've bought plenty of SD cards online for my raspberry pi and dashcam. They all die and start giving errors within a month or two. Even tho I went of my way to buy name brand, and not the cheapest 4 star cards. :-/
- Marsymars 8y agoLook into high endurance cards for dashcams. There are a few different brands with them.
- H1Supreme 8y agoI love the Raspberry Pi, and all the good it's done for computing. I have 3 of them currently. But, I don't want anything SD card driven for my next SBC. They are too volatile for heavy use.
- bsder 8y agoThe Beaglebone Black has eMMC onboard.
- mafuyu 8y agoEven the nice consumer SD cards aren't really designed for high write endurance. I would look into industrial cards like the Swissbit microSDs with SLC: https://swissbit.com/products/nand-flash-products/cards/micro-sd-memory-cards/ https://swissbit.com/products/nand-flash-products/cards/micr...
- jpindar 8y agoThese are some of the most counterfeited items of all, so I'll only buy them from industrial distributors. I figure they are accustomed to vetting their suppliers and have a reputation to protect.
- nerdponx 8y agoWhat about consumer electronics like TVs and stereo systems. Are those low-margin?
- dharmab 8y agoTVs are low-margin. Audio varies.
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- 52-6F-62 8y agoCan confirm the other comment. TV's are very low margin. It's not uncommon for them to sell at a loss, or even severe loss (if you're buying other higher margin items). Audio isn't typically so bad, but I think it depends on the systems. The "home theatre in a box" items outside of Bose tend to be pretty low margin in a lot of cases. Real amp/stereo/surround setups can be pretty decent margin. My knowledge is derived from a smaller, mid/high-end outfit, so I'm not too sure about Best Buy but I assume the TV's are about the same.
- the_watcher 8y agoAll that said, if what you need is a cable to get your big-ticket item working right now, a lot of us will find the markup on the cheap, high-margin item well worth it.
- levesque 8y agoYou save time by getting it right now, so that's worth something.
- LeifCarrotson 8y agoI'm not sure you save time: That round trip to the store might take an hour. Conversely, you could defer the task that needs that cable until the day after tomorrow, take 2 minutes to buy it on Amazon, and spend the next 48 hours on other stuff. To me, the hour trip to go to the store is much more burdensome than 2 minutes on my computer plus 48 hours of doing everything else that I have in my life...I run my brain on a round-robin scheduling algorithm, and there are plenty of other tasks that can keep me busy while I wait for that interrupt to return!
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- derptron 8y ago"low-margin purchase like an MBP" Thanks, I needed that.