Dirty stinking lying conmen

RetiredGreyFox · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:06

Just got back from a High Street store where I bought a Sagemcom PVR for Mrs Dimple and asked for their cheapest HDMI cable.
"Ooh you don't want one of them, they'll fall apart and the quality isn't very good compared to a £60 one" but I said "It's snake oil, I've never seen a difference between cheap and dear leads and I still want the cheap one".
He took me over to a demo featuring two 42" TVs on the wall and he said "The left one has the cheap lead and as you can see the words are very poor but in the right one the words are sharper because the lead is dearer" and he wasn't wrong.
Mrs Dimple told him it was going under a 16" portable in the kitchen and she only glanced at it, so a SCART or a cheap HDMI will do.
I bought the PVR and then we wandered around the store but when it was all clear I tried to look behind the two TVs but couldn't because of shelving.
I then asked Mrs Dimple for a mirror and got my 'Spec me an LED torch' out so I used the mirror has a periscope and looked under the good TV picture and a HDMI cable was inserted, I then looked under the bad TV picture and a SCART was inserted :eek:

Technically while giving the demo he did say 'Cheap lead' but because of the conversation before he gave the impression he was talking about cheap HDMI.

Cool story bro.

Oh yeah, I went to Argos and bought a £4.99 lead which works great.

Jono8 · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:07

Mule rory blow

contracteur · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:08

It's where they make all their money from unfortunately, the mark ups are eye watering.

G-MAN2004 · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:08

Should have presented your findings to him to see what excuses he would have pulled out of his ****.

Brookert · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:11

Yep, ex curry's employee here. The managers used to believe the BS they were given in the training sessions and so they used to push us to sell the belkin expensive cables.

J.B · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:11

I would have asked for the manager but I'm pedantic like that!

mattyfez · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:13

I would report them to trading standards... talk about miss-selling a product, lol!

Slinky1989 · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:15

It's because the profit margins on the expensive ones are massive. So of course they'll push them when they barely make anything on the televisions themselves and the cheap cables.

ng93 · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:16

£60 HDMI cable! Srsly? That's beyond ridiculous.

I don't know how people keep their cool around salesmen, 99% of the ones in IT shops just Don't swear! constantly.

Edit: reminds me of the time my step dad came home from purple shirt with four £30 ethernet cables :eek:

. I could have got them off the bay for 99p :rolleyes:

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RomanNose · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:17

Owned! Get that kid sacked, write a letter of concern and get him back on the dole

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dowie · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:18

Tis pretty shocking they can get away with flogging these things tbh...

Its as retarded as saying a gold plated kettle lead will make your tea taste better - unfortunately, when it comes to technology, large portions if the population can be easily fooled by these con men.

Art · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:19

ng93 said:
£60 HDMI cable! Srsly? That's beyond ridiculous.

I don't know how people keep their cool around salesmen, 99% of the ones in IT shops just ******* constantly.

Problem is, 99% of people think the purple shirts etc. know what they're talking about.

As much as I'd say "get trading standards involved" as well, you've nothing on paper so you'd be relying on TS sending in a mystery shopper to check it out. Wouldn't have much faith in them bothering.

chaparral · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:19

Dimple said:
and looked under the good TV picture and a HDMI cable was inserted,.

I bet it was one them cheap £2 HDMI leads as well

Morgoth · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:23

I saw a display set-up like this recently too, it was a premium HDMI cable against a non-HDMI cable. Although there was a sticker on the corner of the TV which said it was a non-HDMI cable.

mattyfez · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:23

ng93 said:
£60 HDMI cable! Srsly? That's beyond ridiculous.

I don't know how people keep their cool around salesmen, 99% of the ones in IT shops just ****** constantly.

Edit: reminds me off the time when my step dad came home from purple shirt with four £30 ethernet cables . I could have got them off the bay for 99p .

You can charge what you like for a cable, if people are dumb enough to buy them - the really shocking bit is that they compared scart to HDMI, and told the shopper they were both HDMI - that's not just mis-selling, it must be fraud, sureley?

chaparral · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:23

I payed around £3200 for my plasma and i use the £2 HDMI cables they sell at B&Q to feed everything to it...........

pepsilol · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:23

Poundland do hdmi leads...no?

Skillmister · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:25

pepsilol said:
Poundland do hdmi leads...no?

Yep, was about to post this.

HUNTER.P · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:25

Seen this happen to family, gran had to buy a ethernet cable I think it was to run to her home computer and "those" workers ended up selling her a £80+ cable that was apparently the best of the best and would give her the best data speeds.

I told her to go refund it and got a cheap one of the web for her saving her £££'s

They just rob the ones that arent in the know

Edrof · 25 Jan 2012 at 20:26

The worst thing is it's the older dudes that get scammed the hardest. Everytime I see one wandering into the purple place I shed a tear.