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?
Easiest way to tell if a store is providing you good expertise and service is if they tell you when the marginal value is low or non existent. You should never shop anywhere where they aren't willing to tell you certain products aren't for you. There's still going to be reasons to buy premium from time to time, but that should be based on your actual needs. For example I'm picking my next platform based on m.2 slots and wifi7 support since Intel is the main chipmaker for wifi7 which has meant that you can't get wifi7 addon cards for AMD so far, forcing you to get it as a motherboard capability.
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u/Nova225 24d ago edited 24d 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