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Dec 12 2007

Hopefully one’s not born every minute

Published by Paul at 9:20 pm under Geekery

I was doing some searching for an HDMI-DVI adapter to hook the PS3 up to my LCD monitor, and found that Dick Smith are selling Monster HDMI cables for $300 for a 1.5 metre length.

People, that’s a horrific ripoff. You can buy a cable - even in expensive stores - for $40 or less and being digital, it either works or it doesn’t. Anybody telling you otherwise has shares in Monster.

3 Responses to “Hopefully one’s not born every minute”

# sheolon 14 Dec 2007 at 7:58 am

http://www.gizmorepublic.com/accessories/monster-hdmi-cable-scam-830
and
http://www.nerdmanblog.com/?p=4
# gizoon 18 Dec 2007 at 5:46 am

on a not-so-related note: i got a call from a friend last night. she was going to buy a MacBook, but when she called she asked me how to turn on the webcam on her new HP, with Vista.
I sighed. Apparently the sales guy had told she’d need to buy ‘heaps of other stuff’ for a Mac to be any good.

I cry for people. I cry forever.
# Paulon 18 Dec 2007 at 12:58 pm

And for a Vista machine to be any good, you need to buy a Mac..