Gun Counter ignorance is not just in the gun store. Name some other examples.

[al_g]

Tuesday evening I was in Lowes getting some replacement sprinkler heads and a customer asked the Lowe's employee where the control wire for sprinklers was and I kid you not the guy responded that the best wire was to get some sprinkler flags, strip the flag off and use it. The look on the guys face was utter disbelief and he said I have to run 40' of control wire.

Now typically what drives me nuts is Best Buy and other places selling computers, I cringe most every time someone from Best Buy tries to explain something.

[Ronin13]

Ran into it when I bought my TV a couple years ago at "Best" Buy... what a joke! I used to work there way back when (2005ish) in the Home Theater department, and had to know what I was selling. Granted, I knew what I was looking for and just hadn't settled on which brand and the exact size (40" range). The guy I dealt with hadn't a single clue as to what he was doing and when I asked "What's the Hz on this one?" He gave me a deer in the headlights. If I were selling cars and someone asked what the HP was on a certain car, and I didn't know, odds are I'd probably be fired. I found I just don't need salesmen anymore, I research beforehand and hope they have what I'm looking for either in stock or available for order.

On another note, working in the insurance world, I've found some people to be shady POSs and that everyone should know a little something about their home before getting insurance- such as: Market value and replacement cost (your dwelling/Coverage A) are two very different things. What I've seen a lot of is that some agents write policies very poorly... meaning, let's say it'll cost $500,000 to rebuild your house and the company your agent goes through offers 125% replacement cost coverage, so they say "Well it'll take 500K to rebuild it, but we have 125% so we'll write it for $375K and save you some money!" Well what if it ends up actually being $600K to rebuild it? Where is that extra $100K going to come from? That's right, you're gonna have to sue your agent for it. It's ridiculous... we try to be fair to both the customer and the company we represent, and being accurate in the replacement cost estimate is a win-win for everyone.

[mikedubs]

"Putting air in your nitrogen filled tires will cause the tires to corrode"

ETA: Ronin's post about Best Buy reminded me...those clowns pushing $300 HDMI cables as somehow better than a standard HDMI. The cable either works or it doesn't.

[HoneyBadger]

"Putting air in your nitrogen filled tires will cause the tires to corrode"

ETA: Ronin's post about Best Buy reminded me...those clowns pushing $300 HDMI cables as somehow better than a standard HDMI. The cable either works or it doesn't.

This is why I buy all my digital cables from monoprice.com With a digital signal it is all 1s and 0s. There is no quality gradient here... Like you said: it either works or it doesn't. Bonus: Since you can buy a 12ft HDMI cable from monoprice for $3 plus about $3 shipping, you might as well buy 2 "just in case". That being said, I've ordered hundreds of dollars of cables, parts, speakers, etc from them and I've never received anything from them that didn't work as expected right out of the box.

[Ronin13]

ETA: Ronin's post about Best Buy reminded me...those clowns pushing $300 HDMI cables as somehow better than a standard HDMI. The cable either works or it doesn't.

Granted there is a difference between a higher end HDMI cable and the basic Wal-mart brand, but it's really not huge at all... It's not like the difference between a $200 1911 and a Nighthawk Custom.

[HoneyBadger]

Granted there is a difference between a higher end HDMI cable and the basic Wal-mart brand, but it's really not huge at all... It's not like the difference between a $200 1911 and a Nighthawk Custom.

Please explain the difference. Only conceivable difference I can think of is EM shielding between the strands, but everybody does that nowadays... even the $3 cable from monoprice.

[Ronin13]

Please explain the difference. Only conceivable difference I can think of is EM shielding between the strands, but everybody does that nowadays... even the $3 cable from monoprice.

From what I've read- between the XBox issued HDMI versus the braided cased Monster Cable that I somehow "acquired" (I don't buy that overpriced stuff) the only difference is durability, but even that is negligible.

[3beansalad]

From what I've read- between the XBox issued HDMI versus the braided cased Monster Cable that I somehow "acquired" (I don't buy that overpriced stuff) the only difference is durability, but even that is negligible.

But the Monster cable is so pretty, and you're going to need that durability when you bug out with the Xbox!

I actually read a reputable study once where Monster speaker wire was compared with electrical wire (think wiring a table lamp) and the electrical wire came out on top in all categories.

[3beansalad]

F' the monster cable snobs!

...those clowns pushing $300 HDMI cables as somehow better than a standard HDMI. The cable either works or it doesn't.

[00tec]

First (and last) car I bought from a dealer. I was still in high school and bought the car for $7k outright, no financing. I'm sitting there counting out greenbacks and the woman doing the paperwork was being a complete bitch. Just don't understand that one.

Parts jockeys in the local parts houses get me too. Nearly EVERY diagnosis they give for a check engine light is an o2 sensor.