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Best Buy opened up a new store last week, so I decided to stop on the
eway home from work and see what they had. Well, I checked out the
Compact Flash and similar flash memory cards and they've got them, but
there's a price war going on right now with prices dropping like crazy,
with such online ads as 'save $640.00' which is probably true,
considring that a year ago a 1G CF card was close to a kilobuck. I
bought a half G Sandisk Ultra II last month for $77 tax and shipping
inculded, and now they're down to $62 online, and $69 at this store. In
a year or so, you won't be able to buy the 128M, they'll all be 1G and
up. Prices on the 'pen drives' or 'Jump Drives' are falling like crazy
too.
But really what got me ticked off was that I tried to find a reasonably
priced USB extension cable, and the cheapest they had were "USB 2.0"
cables for $37, with golf plated ones over $31! And they had racks of
them, stuck between other studd, obviously since no one in their right
mind would buy them at that price!
A salesdroid asked if I needed help, and I said, yeah, where's the door?
I'm leaving for Fry's! I said to him, I can walk over to the aisle with
the 6-in-1 memory card to USB adapters and buy the adapter *and* and
extension cable for less than the price you're charging for the 6' cable
alone! He just shrugged and said, yeah, I guess so.
It looks like they're playing the same game they played with the 'surge
strips' in the last few years. They sell you a system with CPU,
monitor, printer, and say, "Oh, and you'll need a power strip for that.
Here's one that's $29.95 but we'll let you have it for half price with
the system." The customer, like a dumb fish, takes that bait, and they
sell, at half price, what cost them a whole dollar or less. On the end
of the surge strip isle, man, I couldn't believe it! They had this
isplay of a power strip that looked like the front of an amplifier! Gold
anodized - as you were going to put it _on_ your desk instead of under
it. It had jacks for not only power and phone, but coax F connectors!
There's this switch and a sign that says, "turn left to hear what dirty
power sounds like". They put a speaker on a hissy, grungy sounding
amplifier. BUZZZZZZ... Then turn the switch to hear with our power
strip sounds like. Right. Suckers!
With the USB cables, they're pushing the "2.0 is 40 times faster" and
making it sound like you have to get the 2.0 cable, with the almost
certain knowledge that the average customer doesn't know that the USB
2.0 specification says that it is _fully_compatible_ with USB 1.1
cables. Wow, almost a license to steal an extra $20 from every sucker -
er customer that walks thru the door!
And that's just one accessory. I also wandered down the aisle with the
speaker accessories, like Monster Cable. They have their own brand
name, something like "Geek Squad", but it's the same thing. But we've
already been over that one dozens of times here, so I'll leave it at
that. :-(
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Don't be ripped off by the big book dealers. Go to the URL
that will give you a choice and save you money(up to half).
http://www.everybookstore.com You'll be glad you did!
Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't
changed it: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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eway home from work and see what they had. Well, I checked out the
Compact Flash and similar flash memory cards and they've got them, but
there's a price war going on right now with prices dropping like crazy,
with such online ads as 'save $640.00' which is probably true,
considring that a year ago a 1G CF card was close to a kilobuck. I
bought a half G Sandisk Ultra II last month for $77 tax and shipping
inculded, and now they're down to $62 online, and $69 at this store. In
a year or so, you won't be able to buy the 128M, they'll all be 1G and
up. Prices on the 'pen drives' or 'Jump Drives' are falling like crazy
too.
But really what got me ticked off was that I tried to find a reasonably
priced USB extension cable, and the cheapest they had were "USB 2.0"
cables for $37, with golf plated ones over $31! And they had racks of
them, stuck between other studd, obviously since no one in their right
mind would buy them at that price!
A salesdroid asked if I needed help, and I said, yeah, where's the door?
I'm leaving for Fry's! I said to him, I can walk over to the aisle with
the 6-in-1 memory card to USB adapters and buy the adapter *and* and
extension cable for less than the price you're charging for the 6' cable
alone! He just shrugged and said, yeah, I guess so.
It looks like they're playing the same game they played with the 'surge
strips' in the last few years. They sell you a system with CPU,
monitor, printer, and say, "Oh, and you'll need a power strip for that.
Here's one that's $29.95 but we'll let you have it for half price with
the system." The customer, like a dumb fish, takes that bait, and they
sell, at half price, what cost them a whole dollar or less. On the end
of the surge strip isle, man, I couldn't believe it! They had this
isplay of a power strip that looked like the front of an amplifier! Gold
anodized - as you were going to put it _on_ your desk instead of under
it. It had jacks for not only power and phone, but coax F connectors!
There's this switch and a sign that says, "turn left to hear what dirty
power sounds like". They put a speaker on a hissy, grungy sounding
amplifier. BUZZZZZZ... Then turn the switch to hear with our power
strip sounds like. Right. Suckers!
With the USB cables, they're pushing the "2.0 is 40 times faster" and
making it sound like you have to get the 2.0 cable, with the almost
certain knowledge that the average customer doesn't know that the USB
2.0 specification says that it is _fully_compatible_ with USB 1.1
cables. Wow, almost a license to steal an extra $20 from every sucker -
er customer that walks thru the door!
And that's just one accessory. I also wandered down the aisle with the
speaker accessories, like Monster Cable. They have their own brand
name, something like "Geek Squad", but it's the same thing. But we've
already been over that one dozens of times here, so I'll leave it at
that. :-(
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###Got a Question about ELECTRONICS? Check HERE First:###
http://users.pandora.be/educypedia/electronics/databank.htm
My email address is whitelisted. *All* email sent to it
goes directly to the trash unless you add NOSPAM in the
Subject: line with other stuff. alondra101 <at> hotmail.com
Don't be ripped off by the big book dealers. Go to the URL
that will give you a choice and save you money(up to half).
http://www.everybookstore.com You'll be glad you did!
Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't
changed it: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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