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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. Monster has the worst margin of all the A/V accessories BBY carries.

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 using my 700's when I got the Sennheiser HD555 headphones. They're far more comfortable than any Sony headphones I've tried and have...

This is correct. Most of Best Buy's movie inventory is vendor-managed these days, so the studios are exerting greater influence over the merchandising and movie selection now than they did in the past.

The price drop doesn't have anything to do with how many of theese were being sold. Prices on large-screen TV's have been coming down across the board for a long time. As LCDs become cheaper to manufacture, prices on other technologies have to come down at the same time in order to remain...

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 cables. In the player setup, make sure that you haven't...

Nevermind. I figured out what the problem was. Damn new-fangled modern technology. :rolleyes

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?

I got a MyFi on Monday (my first satellite radio) and I love it. Several of my colleagues bought them as well, and it's all the rage in the office. Very nice to be able to take the radio wherever I go, and the fact that the MyFi comes with almost all of the accessories you would ever need is an...

Andy Lau, Anita Mui and Sammi Cheung were all pop stars before they got into acting. Jackie Chan has crossed over into music. Many HK stars are also involved with TV and commercials. This is an interesting phenomenon, and it might have to do with the fact that Hong Kong is so small - around...

A recent article from Fortune is relevant to this topic: In Hollywood, Best Buy Calls the Shots In the new, DVD-dominated movie business, retailers have become players. By Evelyn Nussenbaum Gary Arnold starts his day like any other show business executive; he reads Variety, the Hollywood...

"Regret" would be the best start, but without the second character ("hum" in Cantonese, "han" in Mandarin), it doesn't mean much on its own. This would be a strange choice for a tattoo, to be sure.

Most, if not all, special online offers on bestbuy.com are clearly marked as such. These offers are often not duplicated in stores because they are funded by manufacturers for the website only. The average customer does not know or understand this, but it makes perfect sense when you understand...

This is COMPLETELY false. The information is gathered for Best Buy internal purposes only. Asking for phone numbers is related to studying consumer purchase patterns and behaviors for Best Buy's customer centricity initiative.

They're just facing reality. Many of their portable CD players have mp3-CD capabilities, and it didn't make sense to have some product lines with that capability and other, more important product lines not have it. Also, I'm sure the fact that some of the biggest electronics retailers in the...

Purchased in the last 10 days: Copland Conducts Copland Peter Gabriel - So Boulez Conducts Bartok Szell/Cleveland Orcestra - Dvorak Symphonies 8,9 Albert King - I'll Play The Blues For You Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughn - In Session The Rat Pack Live at the Villa Venice Bob Belden...

Best Buy definitely does not.

This is a new Best Buy private label brand. I've seen a couple of them in action. They look OK, but the best thing to do is go have a look at them yourself. They're manufactured in the same factories that produce for the big names.

No such announcement was ever made.

I've only done it in China, and while I can't say it's the fastest or most comfortable thing in the world, it is an interesting way to travel. I made quite a few trips by rail over there: Hong Kong to Guangzhou (Canton). Went on the express train, and it was my best rail experience ever...

This is in line with the way corporate employees are rated and bonused. I have someone working for me who recently came from retail, and she was shocked to get a 3 (scale of 5, with 5 being the best), instead of the 5 which she was used to getting at retail. 3 is very good performance at...

Monster is quite the marketing machine, and you've got to hand it to them. I've been to their headquarters and met Noel, and it's marketing, marketing, marketing everywhere. Their people (even the ones that don't work in sales or marketing) generally have very impressive knowledge of their...

I have a few, including a few 311 titles and a couple of Koch jazz titles. The only access I have to HDCD decoding is through Windows Media Player (the newest version has this capability). I don't find it that big of a deal.

PX 200's are not noise-canceling headphones. The PXC250's, however, are. I've tried them and they do a very good job. They're also lightweight and quite comfortable, which would be a plus on your plane ride.

Fall '99 - 12 Monkeys

It's not a rating system so much as it is a way to cater more to certain types of customers, and to turn unprofitable customers into profitable customers. That a company would try to cater more to the interests of its customers strikes me as being more personal than what most companies these...

There are a number of LG appliances on display in my office building right now. They look pretty impressive, especially the refrigerator with the LCD TV screen in the door. I can't speak to their quality, but I would expect to see a lot more LG products around in the next few years.

Best Buy is being more specific. This is to differentiate between rebates that come back in the form of cash versus those that come back in the form of Best Buy gift cards.