[econjack]

Years ago I was in the printer section in Best Buy and a very young sales guy was talking to an elderly couple (I think they were the two who posed for the painting titled American Gothic). They needed to buy a printer cable and noticed that one sold for $9.95 and another one sold for $49.95. They asked why the huge difference in price. Honest-to-God, the sales kid said: “The expensive one has gold contacts and that will make your printer go faster.”

[cuban leaf]

As a former Hi-Fi salesman, that one cracks me up.

BTW, I never spend more than a few bucks for an HDMI cable. The prices some of them command just plain cracks me up. Ignorance can cost you a bundle.