Audio / Video Cables From Best Buy Are A Scam

One of the most common scams out there is the cable scam. Basically, retailers like Best Buy sell cables for ridiculous amounts of money. It’s being spearheaded by companies like Monster who, through deceiving marketing techniques, try to convince you there’s a reason to pay an arm and a leg for a bunch of wires.

Here’s an example; an 8 foot Monster HDMI cable… and at the time of writing this, $200 at Best Buy. The truth is, HDMI cables are very cheap to make. There’s honest retailers out there, like Monoprice, that offer HDMI cables for about $2-$5.

If your thinking the difference between these cables is “quality”, it isn’t. The quality is just the same. In fact, with HDMI, it doesn’t carry an analog signal, it carries a digital one. How on Earth could they justify charging $200 for a digital cable that competitors are able to charge $10 for?

It gets even more worst than that. This is also true for analog cables, such as audio cables.

But I’m not just talking from things I’ve read, I know for a fact. I used to work at Circuit City years ago. Know this, retail companies make profit not from the devices they sell, but from the accessories. They buy items such as USB cables for like $2 whole sale and then sell them for $19.99. And back to quality, some guys in the car stereo department actually hooked up coat hangers to high-quality speakers as cables and compared them to Monster cables and there was absolutely no difference.

So when buying cables, do your homework, know what they’re worth and don’t get taken for a sucker.

Peace, JbB