Kogan give free HDMI cables to Jbhifi customers
hef
Queensland
1842 posts
I think its a great idea by Kogan. Sure its a publicity stunt, but whatevs..
Why anyone would pay $199 for a HDMI cable anyway is beyond me, but I am sure their are plenty of people who have fallen trap to it because they just don't know any better.
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The campaign has been tremendously successful, but there is a lot of work left to do to help Australians save their hard earned money.
We are trying to bring the overpriced cable rort to the public's attention in a bid to force the big retailers to cut out this dodgy practice.
Unfortunately, Australian shoppers are still being asked to pay an arm and a leg for a cable when they should only be spending a few dollars.
Big bricks-and-mortar retailers need to know it's not OK to trick people into spending too much on overpriced accessories like HDMI cables.
Any Australian customer who buys a TV from JB Hi-Fi from January 1 2011 will be eligible to redeem a free Kogan 1.4 HDMI cable while the promotion is running. The giveaway will now run indefinitely.
Customers who email their JB Hi-Fi proof of purchase to [email protected] will be sent their free HDMI cable. Full terms and conditions are available here.
You've heard of the milk price wars, the bread wars, even the beer wars. It's now time for the accessory wars!
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`ViPER`
Brisbane, Queensland
3774 posts
Why anyone would pay $199 for a HDMI cable anyway is beyond me
Last time I went to Harvey norman, I looked for the most expensive HDMI cable they had, it was $399.
I realy want to ask for the manager and make a scene and tell them that it should be fraud to rip off people that much, but then I didnt care.
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Spook
Brisbane, Queensland
31627 posts
i only use gold connector hdmi cables becausei need my picture to look that good;
im a plasma owner
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Mordecai
Victoria
741 posts
I only use "Monster" brand cables as I am a pretentious wanker.
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thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
7495 posts
good on them, I know quite a few people that have been cheated on HDMI cables
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`ViPER`
Brisbane, Queensland
3775 posts
Fixah
Brisbane, Queensland
5289 posts
Just wow..
Jaycar sell 4 HDMI cables for $25 or something.
Giving out a free cable with large enough purchase such as a TV is not a big deal either despite what Kogan make it out to be.
On what other accessories do you think Australians are being ripped off? Why limit yourself to just accessories? we get ripped off on everything, including games with multiplayer unlock codes that are BANNED in our region forcing us to smuggle games like they're some dangerous contraband and creating fake overseas accounts to only end up playing with shitty latencies WITHOUT being able to download and pay for overly expensive DLC's because our government sucks dick.
Oh and on and top of that we pay twice as much as anywhere else around the world AND we're expected not to import or pirate games.
Argh hold me back man!!!
p.s. brb going to pirate media and import accessories for no reason other than to calm myself down. |
Reverend Evil™
Wynnum, Queensland
18380 posts
Why would you pay $300 for a HDMI cable?
Whoah, whoah, right there spinach chin! I'm looking at the CA website and they sell 5m ones for $29. What are you talking about that cost $300????
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Mordecai
Victoria
742 posts
When game/gametraders were bought out by their english counterparts (I think thats what was going on just remember cheap shit.) I bought 5 hdmi cables for $4 each with free postage. Price tag on them said $39.99 so I saved a bit.
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teq
Brisbane, Queensland
10393 posts
man, I need to start selling HDMI cables
where do they find these suckers?
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ara
Sydney, New South Wales
3221 posts
i only use gold connector hdmi cables becausei need my picture to look that good;
im a plasma owner
it makes sense now, you need to buy an LCD to get a good picture, not an overpriced cable.
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TicMan
Melbourne, Victoria
6812 posts
Bah
Brisbane, Queensland
4318 posts
Giving out a free cable with large enough purchase such as a TV is not a big deal either despite what Kogan make it out to be. You missed the point completely.
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carson
Gippsland, Victoria
837 posts
Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
3092 posts
If someone hasn't done enough research to realise that $300 for a digital cable is astronomically overpriced, why should Harvey Norman or JB feel bad about parting that customer from money they obviously don't need?
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lol at the reviews for these cables.
This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be sometime around 2007 for whomever is reading this. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES. Something... happens with them. Something came through, something from somewhere else. We were overrun in days, not many of us are left. WE LIVE UNDERGROUND! ONLY YOU CAN STOP IT NOW. SAVE US. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES.
I don't have much time. This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be--
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StopShootingMe
Brisbane, Queensland
3325 posts
From OCAU this past Friday:
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teq
Brisbane, Queensland
10396 posts
haha gold plated connectors on a toslink cable
this is obviously catering to people who know a grand total of 0 about audio gear
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bargain
Sydney, New South Wales
1761 posts
gold plated connectors hahahaha
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FaceMan
Brisbane, Queensland
5614 posts
Reverend Evil™
Wynnum, Queensland
18382 posts
I remember when Creative brought out sound cards 10 years ago with gold plating. What happened? Same with Kodac Gold CD's. Shit still sounds the same.
LOL
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Outlaw
Gold Coast, Queensland
188 posts
bro works at jb hifi. get free shit all the time
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deadlyf
Queensland
1528 posts
Dedicated DENON LINK cable made of high-purity copper wire high-purity produces noiseless sound and clearer clarity. You guys just don't get it, you save money by spending more.
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Obes
Brisbane, Queensland
8996 posts
HDMI is such a stupid non-standard standard.
6 (or more, tho some might say 5) different standards all with the same connector.
And as of the latest revision the cable manufacturers aren't "allowed" to say which version they are instead it's these wankey phrases like "High Speed HDMI Cable" which is the minimum for 1080p apparently.
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high-purity produces noiseless sound and clearer clarity. You guys just don't get it, you save money by spending more.
I hope this is sarcasm.
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`ViPER`
Brisbane, Queensland
3776 posts
I really think it should be illegal for places like Harvey Norman to sell a hdmi cable for $350, it's just plain fraud.
It's claiming to do things that it can't do.
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Whoop
Brisbane, Queensland
18170 posts
I think I paid like $9 for my last HDMI cable I remember when Creative brought out sound cards 10 years ago with gold plating. What happened? Same with Kodac Gold CD's. Shit still sounds the same.
LOL what's the go with gold plated stuff? every gold plated thing I've ever had, has tarnished and been WORSE than normal plugs. I don't go actively looking for the gold ones, I just always seem to end up with them. |
FaceMan
Brisbane, Queensland
5616 posts
HDMI is old tech, theres a new one coming, cant rem the name.
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fade
Brisbane, Queensland
6034 posts
something about fools and their money
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carson
Gippsland, Victoria
840 posts
gold plated connectors hahahaha
So what's the deal with gold plated connectors? I don't actually own a tv, so never really done much looking in to HDMI.
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FaceMan
Brisbane, Queensland
5619 posts
carson
Gippsland, Victoria
842 posts
HDMI is Dead
Long live HD Base T
http://www.hdbaset.org/
Everything needs to be wifi in the future. I fucking hate cables.
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Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
3094 posts
So what's the deal with gold plated connectors?
Gold plating used to be used to provide an electrically conductive coating to prevent corrosion on the cable's connection points. When we were passing analog signals down TV cables corrosion on the connector can cause noticeable degradation, but when the signal is digital/optical...not so much.
Nowadays gold plating is just a marketing check box so that ignorant plebs deciding between your product and another product don't use it to make a stupid purchase decision.
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FaceMan
Brisbane, Queensland
5620 posts
I read the terms and it says you get a 3 meter cable + delivery charges
Does that mean I pay the delivery fee ? how much is it ?
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FraktuRe
Gold Coast, Queensland
3030 posts
If someone hasn't done enough research to realise that $300 for a digital cable is astronomically overpriced, why should Harvey Norman or JB feel bad about parting that customer from money they obviously don't need?
The problem is HN, etc don't just stock these fraud cables, they actively push them onto the customers, claiming they do all sorts of fancy shit that just simply isn't true. They can be VERY pushy when it's someone old / clueless looking.
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
3369 posts
Just wow..
Why limit yourself to just accessories? we get ripped off on everything, including games with multiplayer unlock codes that are BANNED in our region forcing us to smuggle games like they're some dangerous contraband and creating fake overseas accounts to only end up playing with shitty latencies WITHOUT being able to download and pay for overly expensive DLC's because our government sucks dick. Get out of our country if you hate it so much.
Seriously.
No really, I'm considering doing that myself in the future after even only a small amount of traveling and seeing different' places, different systems, and different economies.
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HDMI cables are overpriced! I'm fucking outta here!
cya later losers
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mission
Brisbane, Queensland
7439 posts
Does that mean I pay the delivery fee ? how much is it ?
$349
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DM
Gold Coast, Queensland
2612 posts
The only time I hear people pushing these cables is when people who look over the age of 50 are buying a new TV or something. Actually that is a lie. I had 1 guy try and push a $200 hdmi cable on me for my PS3 in JB at pacific fair. He said that it provided the best sound and image quality possible and I said yeah the $30 ones do that too, and I save $170" and he didn't look happy with me. Fuck him though.
How someone hasn't made a big stink over this though already is quite surprising.
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IVY_MiKe
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
327 posts
How someone hasn't made a big stink over this though already is quite surprising.
Probably because most ppl just go elsewhere.
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IVY_MiKe
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
328 posts
I found a 15m PureAV HDMI cable at JB Hi-Fi in Woden (Canberra) for $599
huge cable was hueg
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wiggleplix
Melbourne, Victoria
1117 posts
I had no idea HDMI cables had to have gold plated connectors to work
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wiggleplix
Melbourne, Victoria
1118 posts
I found a 15m PureAV HDMI cable at JB Hi-Fi in Woden (Canberra) for $599
huge cable was hueg
yeah but was it gold?
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Raven
Melbourne, Victoria
5175 posts
More importantly, will it blend?
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rubba-chikin
Brisbane, Queensland
6525 posts
Get out of our country if you hate it so much.
Seriously.
No really, I'm considering doing that myself in the future after even only a small amount of traveling and seeing different' places, different systems, and different economies.
I'm also thinking about it very seriously... Living in another place for a substantial period of time does open your eyes to a lot of differences. Some better, some not so much.
I don't hate Australia, but some of the laws/policies/pricing of things are pretty lame/frustrating... I mainly want a colder climate which you don't get easily in Aus.
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Red
Sydney, New South Wales
719 posts
Everything needs to be wifi in the future. I fucking hate cables.
Die in a fire. Try using wifi in a completely rendered-double-brick-walled house. USELESS. Can't run cables (properly) cos it's rented. BOOOO.
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TiT
Brisbane, Queensland
4078 posts
i have monster cables at home only because there was special and i paid $40 for them
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Scooter
Brisbane, Queensland
4176 posts
Parents house was awesome, they did a Reno when I was ~17 so my older brother and I fully ran cables everywhere when we were allowed to make holes in the walls. Sweet setup.
Cables running over the floor/above cupboards in my house now :/
Was thinking of drilling holes... and we are going to be here a long time, so it might be worth it... so much effort though...
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`ViPER`
Brisbane, Queensland
3777 posts
i have monster cables at home only because there was special and i paid $40 for them
If you payed $40 for a 1-1.5 mtr HDMI you still payed $30 too much for it.
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TiT
Brisbane, Queensland
4079 posts
yeah this was 3 yrs ago....
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StopShootingMe
Brisbane, Queensland
3326 posts
I mainly want a colder climate which you don't get easily in Aus.
I bet you're fat.
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Hemerage
Brisbane, Queensland
14807 posts
Yeah, WIFI is ass in my doublebrick house too.
Thankfully, I can drill through my wood floors and go under the house :D
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Hemerage
Brisbane, Queensland
14808 posts
I bet you're fat.
Im with rubba.
6ft, 72kgs... wish it was 0deg!
Working a 6 month snow season was awesome - bye bye sweat! (well, you still sweat inside your jacket when its -15deg, but whatever :D)
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Obes
Brisbane, Queensland
8999 posts
Parents house was awesome, they did a Reno when I was ~17 so my older brother and I fully ran cables everywhere when we were allowed to make holes in the walls. Sweet setup.
I have cat6 cable everywhere, and a data cabinet
2 in every bedroom
12 in the office
4 at the tv, 2 in the kitchen, have the phone patched in as well.
802.11abgn incase I missed anywhere ... fuck I am a nerd
But foxtel came to do an install and the installers got a hardon at how easy it was.
60s style highset hardwood home was easy to do (except that hardwood is fucking hard).
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rubba-chikin
Brisbane, Queensland
6529 posts
I bet you're fat.
Incorrect!
182cm 80kg and I work as a snowboarding instructor so I'm outside everyday ;)
I have an extremely fast metabolism and the side effect of that is your body runs hot. I don't feel the cold like most people, sometimes my buddies have 5+ layers on and I have a T-shirt and an uninsulated jacket on. Conversely the heat fucks me over big time. Summer in Oz I can't stop sweating and I hate it with a passion.
Living in the snow is my paradise.
This upcoming winter will be my fourth in a row and I'm gonna keep them rolling back to back as long as I can! last edited by rubba-chikin at 05:54:28 01/Apr/11
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