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Don't shop at CompUSA
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Zoatebix
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Yay Best Buy. I like them even though they were pissed Charlottesville didn't install a third traffic light on a 200ft stretch of Route 29 just for them and threatened not to bring their business here. Their employees have recommended two or three online retailers to me when they don't have a particular item on site. Totally hot.
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As a former Tech Manager at CompUSA, I can say that I have heard some store managers dumping low-margin products and having higher-margin replacements on hand. This was fairly rare and strictly verboten, but it happened.
About those cables. Yeah. You really don't want to know how much those actually cost. Really. Let's just say that if you see a cable for a price so much lower it seems too good to be true, then it's probably the same cable you saw in the store.
About those cables. Yeah. You really don't want to know how much those actually cost. Really. Let's just say that if you see a cable for a price so much lower it seems too good to be true, then it's probably the same cable you saw in the store.
Goobermunch
Explorer
Wycen said:
There's a very good reason for this:
CompUSA doesn't provide it's employees with street dates.
It's true. So when you go to a CompUSA and ask when is X going to be out, you're relying on the employee's personal knowledge from the same sources you have access to, the gaming press. I doubt they're lying to you, but I suspect that they're uninformed.
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Creamsteak
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You keep saying, "you don't want to know," but trust me: I do.
Just give me a rough % of your profit. And is there really any difference in these "copper/gold/silver/platinum/stainless steel/adamantine" ends for coax cable?
Just give me a rough % of your profit. And is there really any difference in these "copper/gold/silver/platinum/stainless steel/adamantine" ends for coax cable?
Creamsteak said:
It's been a while, but IIRC, its something on the order of 70%+ depending on the cable.
The short answer is that no, the ends don't really make much of a difference. A damaged cable is far more likely to be the source of problems. However the fancier(read-More Expensive) cables are likely to be somewhat better constructed and better shielded, which might make a difference, if only from the point of view relyability and durability. The various coatings on the ends however, are so microscopically thin that they really have little or no effect. Though under certain conditions differing metalic connections Gold/Steel for example can POSSIBLY lead to corrosion of on or the other. But that was an older problem, I'm not sure if it occurs anymore.
But are you sure you are asking about Coax cables? Nobody uses those outside of TV related connections and antique networks.
Shielding CAN make a difference, especially if you are talking about SCSI cables, but I don't think Comps cary much of anything in SCSI cables these days. So you'd have to hit some place like Granite Digital, for a GOOD quality cable, but those will cost you an arm and a leg.
Creamsteak
Explorer
I'm not to worried about computer cables. I just use everything that I have sitting around for those connections. The only cord I've actually had to purchase any time recently was a simple lan connection so I could use the University net access.
Henry
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I used to work at a mom-n-pop computer store years ago, and had a husband-and-wife couple come in looking for a simple A-B serial switch box - back when these simple $5.00-cost boxes were usually priced at $30.00 or so. The wife balked, and guessed within a DIME of what we paid for it. 
Cables and other small peripherals = GIGANTIC markup, even today. It's the staple money-maker, because they sure don't make enough off of computer sales to keep the doors open.
Cables and other small peripherals = GIGANTIC markup, even today. It's the staple money-maker, because they sure don't make enough off of computer sales to keep the doors open.
Skullfyre
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Henry said:I used to work at a mom-n-pop computer store years ago, and had a husband-and-wife couple come in looking for a simple A-B serial switch box - back when these simple $5.00-cost boxes were usually priced at $30.00 or so. The wife balked, and guessed within a DIME of what we paid for it.
Cables and other small peripherals = GIGANTIC markup, even today. It's the staple money-maker, because they sure don't make enough off of computer sales to keep the doors open.
This is a fact.
it is where the profits are made.. in the accessories...
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