Ted Roche wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Paul Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The reviews are very amusing but the whole thing is rather sad really - >> sad in that a company like Denon is apparently prepared to take >> advantage of people in this way, and sad that there are people >> sufficiently gullible to provide a market for them ... >> >> > > Markups on accessories and cables are the way that a lot of the BigBox > stores make a profit from their stereo and computer departments, from > what I hear. The $49 "printer pack" with cleaners and cable and paper > is 500% markup; consumers come in with knowledge of what the printers > cost online. Monster Cables are a particularly egregious perpetrator > of the "high-impedance, low-resistance, low-capacitance, > radio-frequency-shielded, gold-tipped" cable claims. > > But this cable is beyond it all. > Quite so Ted - and how nice to see a word like "egregious" on Profox of all places :)
Have you checked out the OED online word-of-the-day subscription ? Paul (lover of language) Newton :) _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
