Parents bought $80 HDMI cable
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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$80?!! I didn’t even know you could get HDMI cables for that kind of price!
My condolences
Go return it for them.
Component price gouging in retail stores is completely unacceptable. I had to pick up an HDMI cable at my local best buy for the first time in a decade, and the prices were unbelievable. they must think we’re stupid because there is never any reason a single cable should cost $100
OH nah uhh..
I recommend you ask them to return everything, even the TV. Then buy a TV from a reputable store. Because what happens if they need to call in for warranty? will they try to upsell them on some dumb shit again?
Return it. Don’t let them get taken advantage of like that. I’d leave a bad review of whatever scumbag store pulled this shit. Gonna guess BestBuy?
I’ve paid $59.95 for a FIFTY FOOT long HDMI ( I needed it for a conference I was doing presentation and A/V set up for.) but they get wonky after about 20’ in length, so it was a necessary expense.
This is insane though.
I’ve seen $80 hdmi cables, but they’re usually 8k 48gbps. That cable should be listed at $40.
It does seem like a high end cable though, and it does make a difference in modern tv’s. I can’t speak for the surge protector.
https://www.jbl.com/accessories/5S-4KHD2-1-5M.html?gQT=1
Not surprising for PC Richards. The place sucks. Went there once in the past 10 years as a last resort and walked out after the salesperson told the most blatant lie about a product when the specs were right there in front of me. Called them out on it and left
did they buy it at an airport?
no returns? total ripoff 🙁
If only they were a standard they were following and you could order them online for less than 20$ /s
As someone who used to work in retail and was forced to sell this overpriced garbage to my customers in order to keep my job, this hurts my soul.
How much is this exact cable online?
An $80 cable should at least be labeled *fancy* or *luxurious*.
*Austere* is just a slap in the face.
You buried the lead with that $300 surge protector thing. Do the sales people at that store wear skimasks? Holy crap that is insane.
your parents need a chaperone
lol “Austere”
Throw an Apple logo on it and charge $120. Everyone leaves happy.
Nah that’s wild
Jeez.. $80 for outdated 18gbps? You can grab a 48gbps for 10 bucks on Amazon.. I’m sorry
Ripped out my HDMI cable with the vacuum cleaner, bought 3 of them from the hardware store for $10, all work at 4k, even with H264 codec which apparently only needs 32Mbps.
No different from buying “hi fi speaker wire”
Funny. 5 buck lamp wire from home depot works as good.
What length. I know they can get quite expensive as the length increases as they need to increase the thickness of the cable to retain the spec.
Quality of your connections should match the quality of your entertainment system. And if you’re rocking low price hardware you don’t need high price connections. But if you pay for the higher end of the hardware more expensive connections are just part of the system
I hope they kept the receipts. I would go with and find a suitable not $400 version.
Keep in mind all streaming services have a quality of at least 10mbs in every movie.
But this one goes to 11
Electronic accessories like this are explicitly designed to take advantage of those less informed like your parents, who probably operated on the “tried and true” method of “if it’s more expensive it must be higher quality”.
It’s insidious and deceitful, but not enforceably illegal because there’s nothing stopping the customer from buying a cheaper but equally good product other than consumer knowledge.