I stumbled upon this bargain while hunting for a Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 at Knox City shopping centre. It clearly says on the label that its been reduced from $99 to $60, however, simply take it up to the register to get scanned and it will actually cost only $7.50. I have no idea when this discount will end so I recommend jumping at the opportunity while it lasts.
is belkin competing with monster for the most overpriced cables nowadays?
Have they got any Brand-name optical cables with gold-plated connectors remaining???
Awesome crystal clear picture quality from these. Much better mid-range tones because of the gold. I don't want cheap digital signals infecting my equipment.
Prepared to pay $1000 per meter.
@ $7.50 this is a bargain /jk
Not sure if srs.
Sarcasm I assume?
Wow…even at 7.50 for a 1 meter cable is expensive…. sorry, but I don't see it as a bargain at all.
Totally agree. 1 metre should only be a couple of bucks!
come on guys. she thought it was $60.
" It clearly says on the label that its been reduced from $99 to $60, however, simply take it up to the register to get scanned and it will actually cost only $7.50"
how do you know its a she?
Hairy knuckles + Mavrick.
I'm 100% male, mate
Damn, you could have been the next jv… an urban legend.
Is he a she, or is she a he?
I've been recently looking for good hdmi cables that don't cost an arm and a leg. any good places that I can buy from? or any specific models?
MSY sell no nonsense HDMI cables at a reasonable everyday price
do you know if they would meet the hdmi 1.4a spec?
HDMI versions are irrelevant for cables, all you need is a high speed HDMI cable and it will support all current formats including 3D and 4k.
http://www.hdmi.org/consumer/finding_right_cable.aspx
Or save more buying it even cheaper.
What !! you bought a HDMI cable for $7.50
This must have magical powers
I don't understand why easternculture is being negged here…
As pointed out by many people, $7.50 is an average-high price for 1m HDMI cable - brand name regardless.
I guess it comes with antivirus features…
did you manage to get the keyboard?
so you were about to buy the cable for $60?
For an RRP well north of $50, you would expect/hope it to be better quality than the no-name $3 cables.
Id pay $7.50 for this. Especially if I wanted one today (rather than ordering off a website and waiting for it to arrive). Kmart generic HDMI cables are $10.
I wonder what the Buy Get Offer line item is? Being on a separate line, it looks more like a promo code entered, rather than coming up automatically?
If you can wait a day or two then Selby are $3.99 delivered -
http://www.selby.com.au/cables/hdmi-cables.html?p=1&dir=asc&…
msy have both the flat and normal ones for 3$ for 1 meter
and as long as it works its fine , hdmi dont suffer from signal loss i believe.
You really think that because it costs more it must be good?
Not higher quality signal as that is irrelevant for an error checking digital signal like HDMI over a short distance like 1m - it either looks perfect, or terrible..
However more likely better quality materials/construction for the longevity of the cable itself.
You want a HDMI cable to fail before a TV HDMI port fails.
What exactly are you doing with your HDMI cables that you're going to be threatening their longevity?
Strangulation? Autoerotic asphyxiation? Makeshift ropes for climbing out of windows? Dog likes to chew them?
@muncan: The only way I've broken a HDMI cable connector is by physically bumping it while plugged in (with significant force). Even the El-Cheapo Ebay cables are not going to be breaking from being unplugged unless you do it like an enraged gorilla or the sockets have been misshapen somewhat.
I've got 1/2 a cheap TOSLINK cable stuck in my old reciecer. Thankfully I left the reciecer back in the early 2000's.
Unless your joining them to a 10 Meter cable like I do(runs through the wall)… I've noticed there is a difference in quality when you do that.
Was $99
lolwut. upvoted for comic value.
Cant beleive the scams they do with HDMI cables. i bought a home theatre from harvey norman the other day and thought id grab a hdmi cable and the guy showed me them all $50+ i asked him if it was worth buying the premium ones and he said definatley if your watching 4k… sigh
MONSTER HDMI Cables for a MONSTER price
Not if you buy from Amazon. I recently bought a Monster THX 700 1.2m cable from Amazon for $13.48 USD + delivery. Stuff Harvey Norman with their "premium" prices.
You still got bent over.
Gerry Harvey made his third billion dollars selling $50 HDMI cables.
correction .. he tried to sell me one for $200 back in 2007
This must be the dumbest thing I done but I paid $130 for a 1 meter monster Goni cable from hardly normal.
This was before I found oz bargain.
Totally got ripped off (facepalm)
@Pepsi to go: wow that's crazy most i ever spent is $29.95 and even that was more that i needed one now not in 3 days when buying off ebay.
When looking at a projector setup (I wasn't going to buy from HN, imported group buy) but I wanted to see a few of them in person and they were handy and had them on display.
As I was enquiring about pricing etc. he jumped on the upsell opportunity of one of the Monster cables. I've read enough reviews/articles on them (e.g. via Gizmodo) to know that an 'el-cheapo' HDMI cable will do what I need just as well as a $150 HDMI cable.
Sales person got rude/condescending/aggressive because I wouldn't bite and was well enough informed that Monster Cables were a tremendous rip off. Trying to make your customer out to be an idiot? Probably not the best way to close a sale…
(Had I not known any better, the arguments about better components / quality etc. make perfect logical sense)
What's this BUY GET OFFER listed on the receipt any one know?. Wondering if by any chance it might be a pricing mistake.
They have additional reductions off already reduced prices i.e. Discounts Stack
Oh man funniest thing ive seen ever. I thought op is trolling. Then saw the photo. Lol. Hdmi is just like a network cable and digital. For under 10m the may $2 one is just as good.
Best post. What a way to start the year!!
It is HDMI 1.4, that is the minimum for 3D and was the last of 10.2 Gbps, it does 4K at 24hz.
10.2 Gbps was previously the highest bandwidth specified (up to HDMI version 1.4). To facilitate this bandwidth, a High Speed HDMI Cable (with or without HDMI ethernet channel) is required.
The latest HDMI version 2.0 revision has increased the maximum bandwidth to 18 Gbps. However, this was achieved through a more efficient signalling protocol, which means that existing (certified) High Speed HDMI Cables are able to handle the increase in bandwidth without any change to the fundamental design of the cable.
Here we go, typical HDMI related hate.
C'mon guys, $50+ for HDMI is one thing, but $7.50 for a well made cable is very fair. The amount of stuffing around you have to do plugging and unplugging stuff from your AV unit only to find out the 'magical' $2 cable you bought had bad soldering is just not worth it when you can get quality stuff at reasonable prices.
Never had a hdmi cable ever fail. How much pluging and un pluging u doing??
I upgrade my AV stuff quite often, and have to rearrange the equipment accordingly. But I was referring to buying a dud which has happened to me not too long ago, wouldn't say it's common, but at these type of prices for quality cables, I'd say these branded ones are the way to go.
I bought lots of cheap HDMI cables because I plug in/out my laptop to the monitor and I also move my apple tv from one tv to another depending on where we will use it and cheap cables just break easily. I got 3 HDMI cables that didn't last long. I bought some Jamell cables http://www.jamellcables.com.au/premium-hdmi-high-speed-with-… and a year on, it is still working. $7.50 is a decent price for a well known brand.
I've had the same issue with cheap hdmi cables. Two <$5 cables failed on me, one straight outta the box, and another after several months. Better to get this 1 $7.50 cable than have to replace a $3.50 cable twice.
Ive bought plenty of $1-2 HDMI cables on ebay from HK and they all work great.
The question is, is it well made? The fact that it's made by Belkin and sold by Myer doesn't mean anything, these are the people ready to sell you a $99 cable that cost cents to manufacture, if it breaks they'll just replace it under warranty.
I'd go with monoprice, a company that has built their rep on selling cables alone and they've always been good for me.
Additionally, this isn't oznotabadprice.com.au - it's not surprising that people don't think this is a bargain (because it isn't). It's on par with posting about a carpet seller having a closing down sale. If someone needed a cable ASAP then it's a great price (always hard to find a cheap cable on the day you need it), but no one should bother buying it otherwise.
Monoprice are in the US, and charge $44 for shipping. You must order a lot of cables from them in order to spread out the shipping costs…
Any deals on USB Audio cables? :D
would rather get this over some cheap $2 hdmi cable on ebay that can fail anytime.
hate taking the tv down and reach in the receivers and all.
"Price: $13,499.75 & FREE Shipping
Only 4 left in stock. " lol
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
May cause slight problems
By AndrewCJ on October 16, 2014
I decided to pull the trigger and purchase this cable because my Samsung 85 inch 4k HD 3D TV ($40,000 if you are curious, fantastic TV, only had to re-finance my house 4 times and sell a kidne. I only need one so why not right?) just wasn't getting the best with its supplied cable.
When the product arrived, which it did so in a timely manner (2 days 4 hours 26 minutes 41 seconds) I was surprised at how superb the packaging was. When I released it from its restraints I gently plugged the cable into the required ports.
This is where I was amazed. The picture looked better than it had before which was already fantastic. Now I could literally touch the characters and feel their pain and happiness in movies (this became a problem in several war movies as my wife took 3 rounds to the chest and in the arm, don't worry she is in ICU being patched up). The audio sounded like that of a cascading waterfall while an ocestral symphany played Beethoven's 7th. I shed tears just thinking about it.
Now the reason I am giving it an average 3 stars is because of one major issue that may be ,to others, a deal breaker. After 2 weeks of enjoyment the Samsung TV I mentioned earlier and my blue ray player both absorbed the power of this cable to the extent they transformed into fighting robots and have destroyed my beloved house. I am now living in my parents house and lost all my possessions.
lol still cheaper on ebay from HK
What the hell is this for just over 50K http://www.amazon.com/Steren-1-5-2-5mm-Male-Stereo/dp/B00H9I…
I've bought a wide range of HDMI cables over the years and tbh, you sometimes "kind of" get what you pay for.
Obviously not worth $99, not $60, not even $30 or $15, sure you can buy 2x 1m generics for <$7.50 from MSY, but $7.50 for a brand name that seems to have a good build quality, it's "alright" for some.
Here's the thing, they pretty much all do the same thing if we're comparing the same version standards, I've personally bought heaps of $2-10 HDMI cables of varying lengths and the thing that differs the most from the usual $2/3/4/5 cables when I actually got to handle some more expensive ones at friend's and instore, is the build quality.
The build quality on the cheaper cables can be a gamble, sometimes decent, sometimes horrendous.
I've had maybe 5-6 cheapy cables fail/fall apart (usually the plug ends that fall apart) out of probably 20 odd cables I've had. Some of the generic PARTLIST branded "braided" ones I've gotten from MSY a few years ago are probably the worst offenders, loose plug ends and the braid makes the cable way too stiff to bend at an angle to contour around the things I want.
It's not a deal for a lot of us, not a deal for me, but for those who don't want to gamble with cheapy cables and want the peace of mind and possibly easier returns if it craps itself, it's not that bad.
I'll give a + for a decent first time effort.
But it ain't no MONSTER cable though..
this just proved yet again these HDMI price just stupid margin!
OMG it's diamond coated! What a steal just buy it for the diamond value!
wow $99 for hdmi..must be some magic inside it!
Yes the picture is the same with the cheap cables, but that's if they work.. I'm over getting the $2 hdmi cables off ebay or wherever. They are garbage!
I have my pc plugged into my TV and with these cheap cables I got random colours on the screen, then the screen freezes pink.. I thought it was my graphics card, maybe it was my power supply maybe the motherboards gone, after days of trouble shooting, I finally figured out it was the dam hdmi cable! Happened another 2 times with the cheap hdmi cables.
I like to spend around 7-10 bucks for my cables, so great find.
Dont get bottom of the barrel cheap then?
Oh, wait this is ozb :P
Cable thickness on that looks pretty substantial, if not overly so.
Buy Get Offer sounds like u get this special price only when u buy something else (eg. TV) and bundle it. Good find n hopefully not price error as mentioned.
A company called 3rdEarth used to sell a HDMI cable for the XBOX 360 that claimed to have antivirus protection.
I cant talk to the quality of cheap HDMI cables but i have gone through about 3 display port to mini display port cables due to them starting to cause artifacts. At 2560*1440 there's s lot if data travelling through the cable so it depends on a good connection without loss.
I saw this today at Myer Top Ryde.
Original price was $60 then it was discounted to $30.
Myer has a sign that said 75% off the advertised price so, $30 - 75% = $7.50
They also had Digital Optical Cable as well.
you guy don't understand the importance of having such high quality cabling for your media.
It's like people laughing at me when I bought the "Monster clothes line cabling" at $45 per metre. My clothes dry faster and cleaner on the line than they would with regular low grade clothes line cabling.
at $45 a metre you'd want the cable to iron and fold your clothes
now that would be a bargain. cabling with that level of capability is around $120 a metre!
Well I am guessing these cables must have become $7.50 too. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/176766
Should I return then buy them again? =p
lol @ all the noobs in this thread.
my heart cannot take any more of this
bargain.. worth a 2hr drive
While you guys are undoubtedly correct…. A more unlikable bunch of people I haven't seen in a while.
^ this. This was OP's first bargain and everyone ridiculed her. GG.
made me feel bad for a second, micro second, then i remembered all the laughter,.. nup, nothing bad in our behavior.. carry on.
Hardly, take a look at the votes.
OP has been awarded a 1st post wonder badge.
How many of us did that?
More people like the deal than the few negative comments.
The deal is not for me, but it's not all about me.
Well done OP, thanks for taking the time to share.
Mate they are up voting this for comica value!
Very critical coming from a member since 15/09/2010 with only 2 deals to your name, one was a dupe and the other got 10 votes.
And? If i dont have deals i dont post. Use this site daily. Wats ur point?
This sheet us funny as hell.
How many of us did that?
Not me, but according to the stats:
First Post Wonder x 4469 ~ First deal posted raised to the front page
Personally, I think some existing members create new accounts just to experience a thrill when posting a great deal as a supposed noob. Then their accounts/activity disappears into the wilderness! Otherwise known as a "one hit wonder"
Call me paranoid if you like.
i bought a couple days ago ProHD3000 Series 2M for $15
lol!