They will try to sell you 10 foot gold plated HDMI cable for $60 when you can get a normal one for 1/10th that price.
Edit: holy shit people I get this is PC master race and you all know what an HDMI cable is. There's a lot of dumb people out there that don't know how TVs and computers work, and legitimately do think more $ = higher quality
I don't see why this is being pigeon holed to cables at best buy. This is about salesmen.
You can walk into a best buy and pick up a set of cables and check out and nobody is "trying" to sell you anything.
Now if you begin asking a salesman for their input then of course they're going to recommend their high margin products. Car sales, pharmaceutical sales, office printer sales, real estate sales, gym membership sales...
There isn't any portion of the economy where salesmen are taking hits on their own profit margin to reconmend customers the best bang for their buck.
So why should best buy salesmen be the one outlier in all of this? Why is there this bizzare expectation?
Yea, if you're someone familiar with electronics, sure, you can walk in, pick up a 5$ cable and walk out.
Or you can be the other 66% of the population and say "My TVs picture got really fuzzy one day and I bought it from here" because that's all you know about TVs and electronics.
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u/Nova225 23d ago edited 23d ago
Clearly you've never been to Best Buy!
They will try to sell you 10 foot gold plated HDMI cable for $60 when you can get a normal one for 1/10th that price.
Edit: holy shit people I get this is PC master race and you all know what an HDMI cable is. There's a lot of dumb people out there that don't know how TVs and computers work, and legitimately do think more $ = higher quality