No, that's not true. You make a lot of margin on Monster products. You just make more on the other guys' products. But yeah, Monster probably makes more off of us than we make off of them.
Yes, I'm an employee too. That's how I know the figure. Even at half off, that's not 80%. I can't thing of a single Monster product that has 80% margin, and I used to manage the audio half of the business for the entire chain. ...
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I used to work at Best Buy selling computers. The problem with best buy is that they REALLY push selling accessories because they get a huge profit on them. For instance, that $50 cable you buy costs them $7. There is...
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they are definately pushing the Monster because they have 80% markup.
Not true. The markup is higher on the other A/V accessories BBY carries, and very few of those, if any, are that high.
Try some sony MDR-V700's can be had for 100+shipping from newegg.
The 700's sound pretty good but are not at all comfortable, especially compared to Sennheisers. I have tried several Sennheiser models and pretty much stopped...
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This studio "branding" of the displays is probably at the request of the studios mentioned. The studios more than likely have offered Best Buy an incentive (i.e. product discount, co-op advertising $, etc.) to...
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Best buy has cut the price on the Ultra-thin 61" RCA/Infocus DLP in half. It was originally $9000 and it's down to $4500 now. I'm guessing they weren't selling alot of em at $9000
The price drop doesn't...
You shouldn't be hooking the player up to your receiver with 6-channel outs, since you don't have a center channel or surrounds. To listen to SACD and DVD-A, you should just have it connected to your receiver using stereo analog RCA...
I noticed yesterday that the stock ticker disappeared from my MyFi yesterday. It's still not there as of this morning, as is no longer available as an option on the Info Extras menu. Is anyone else having this problem?
