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> a neat trick is to go to your friendly low margin neighbourhood computer store; they tend to have every cable you could possibly imagine for $10 or less. Wow
by nuclear_eclipse 17y ago
> a neat trick is to go to your friendly low margin neighbourhood computer store; they tend to have every cable you could possibly imagine for $10 or less.
Wow, I wish I had a friendly low margin computer store in my area. Other than Best Buy and the recently-defunct CompUSA, the only computer stores around are mom'n'pop stores that charge more markup on everything than NewEgg, MonoPrice, and even Walmart...
- sho 17y agoHa, mine are mom'n'pop stores too, but they're Chinese in a fairly Chinese area, with other computer shops around .. price sensitive market + good competition = I am happy. I love that kind of shop actually; they act as these little value-added distribution branches. Order heaps of the top 100 (or so) products, add 5-10% to the wholesale price, then they walk out the door. The bad side is that we actually don't have a big internet electronics retailer here (Australia). A Newegg would probably be cheaper - I thought they were very cheap? But they would have difficulty starting, since they'd rely on volume to beat the small operators, but the small ones do a pretty good job and can sell minus shipping .. wouldn't want to try to compete with them unless I had very deep pockets. Seems I told a lie though, just looked it up and it's actually more like AUD$15 (USD$12-13) for HDMI. Sorry : /