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Monster Cables are the Cisco Callmanager of the A/V world. The sales geeks at Radio Shack, Best Buy etc push everyone to buy them, when they are total overkill and over priced. https://consumerist.com/353938/monster-cables-monster-ripoff-80-markups
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I've found everything I can get that has to do with communication has a huge mark up at Radio Shack.
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But Bill, you're paying for the convenience of fighting your way thru the mob at the mall, the fun of getting that stupid blister pack open, and realizing that the device is a POS, and I don't mean point of sale! Oh, and don't forget the credit card bill, complete with errors, double charges and all those great offers included in the envelope with it! (Whaddaya mean "Crabby Old Geezer"?)  John C. (Not Garand)
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True, but where else will you be able to buy a one amp full wave bridge on a Sunday afternoon? We are paying through the nose for a convenience. That overpriced retail stuff just pays to operate the store. The electronic components are just a side line for them anymore.
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They barely sell any components/connectors anymore...they stopped selling electronics books a while ago, the list goes on.
Jeff Moss
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The Archer components they sold were total junk anyway.
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At one time they had some decent audio (home stereo) equipment. Wonder what the hot items are nowadays...?
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THX (Burbank, CA) has been a customer of mine for years. One audio engineer in particular (whose name begins with D) has confided that--despite the money-making THX brand endorsement--that these cables are highly overrated and unnecessary for a superior sounding home audio system.
"Press play and record at the same time" -- Tim Alberstein
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When i worked for Telecom Equipment (Later Tel-Plus) we very often got the beta versions of the NEC switches. We used to joke that you could only install a NEAX within 2 blocks of a Radio Shack because we were always running there to buy components to modify some card or another.
You have to really hunt around to even find components in most of the Radio Shacks these days. If they have them at all, they're buried in the back somewhere.
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"Where are we going and why are we in this hand basket?"
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I'm in Fort Worth, the land of Radio Shack, and I am shocked at their high prices. You'd at least think they'd be competitive in their own back yard.
But hey, people are willing to pay those prices....
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