If you've ever bought some electronics on a really great sale...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

...at a place like Walmart or Best Buy and been happy....



...UNTIL...



You go to buy some accessory or cables that are needed and been left feeling "wallet raped" I feel your pain.

The last time I was able to buy a new TV I needed a couple cables. Why is it the place that sells a 32" TV for under $175 needs to charge over $5 per foot for an HDMI cable. I mean it's WIRE and connectors.

I now plan ahead and buy the cables I'll need from:
http://www.monoprice.com/search/index/?keyword=hdmi%20to%20hdmi

A 3 foot cable is $2 and I can pick what color I want.

[daleanime]

1. Thanks....

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. You're welcome

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Wow, found much cheaper internal computer cables too. nt

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. I haven't found any cheap sources for software...

...but if you know of any, please share.

[w0nderer]

7. games or productivity?

most productivity needs can be covered with open source (even on windows)

for games sorry no idea

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. I was thinking windows OS

I have LibreOffice for productivity. I don't do much in the way of pc games.

[w0nderer]

9. a lot of prodictivity stuff is getting ported to win and mac

libreoffice is good

depends on what one needs

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

10. Specifically I was looking for cheap copies of Win7 Pro

[w0nderer]

11. ouch

mom and pop puterstores or online an go for the oems

but ya...everyone else is looking for them too, getting as bad as xp pro oem's was

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

12. yeah, so it seems n/t

[rusty quoin]

3. Thanks for the site.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. You're welcome