bassett
03-05-2005, 08:19 AM
E-Mail Gerry Harvey, and tell him the story, Might get a response,
Then get someone to go back to hardly normal, and as someone said get the
salesman [insist, make a lot of noise] to use Monster cables on both feeds,
and watch him tell you that one of the cables is faulty.
bassett
"Gregory Toomey" <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:3ac15fF6afalcU1@individual.net...
> Poxy wrote:
>
>> A friend was at Harvey Normans the other day, purchasing a plasma screen
>> TV. After they'd negotiated the price - about $4,400 for an LG
>> highish-res
>> panel, the sales guy then suggested they purchase a special component
>> cable for hooking up their DVD player to the screen to achieve the best
>> quality from their new screen.
>>
>> For demonstration, he switched the panel to split-screen mode showing the
>> same DVD title playing on each half, but connected by different cables.
>> He
>> was attempting to imply that the marked difference between the two images
>> was due to the use of a "Monster" brand component video cable on one
>> input. My friend gave me a call at the time and explained what the sales
>> guy was trying to say, and commented that the Monster side had better
>> detail in the blacks and looked better than the other half. I told her
>> that it sounded like a scam and hold off for the moment - she could
>> always
>> purchase it at a later date, as he wasn't offering any great deal on the
>> cable.
>>
>> Subsequently, I worked out that they had hooked up the component output
>> of
>> the DVD player to one side, and the composite output to the other, and
>> was
>> then trying to claim that the improved picture was purely due to the
>> Monster brand cable.
>>
>> This strikes me as a blatantly dishonest and misleading demonstration -
>> the salesman never stated that the difference in quality was largely (if
>> not entirely) due to the alternative signal format, rather he
>> misrepresented the comparison with the goal of selling an obscenely
>> overpriced cable of dubious benefit over a base-quality component cable.
>>
>> Why? The 1m Monster cable costs $270.
>>
>> Methinks a call to the ACCC is in order.
>
> Go back to the store, ask to see the demo again but the brand of the
> cables
> reversed. The expensive cable should be worse.
>
> Say its all a scam, and do a chargeback on the credit card (say its
> fraud/misrepresentation), return the TV. Tell them you will happily go to
> court.
>
> gtoomey
Then get someone to go back to hardly normal, and as someone said get the
salesman [insist, make a lot of noise] to use Monster cables on both feeds,
and watch him tell you that one of the cables is faulty.
bassett
"Gregory Toomey" <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:3ac15fF6afalcU1@individual.net...
> Poxy wrote:
>
>> A friend was at Harvey Normans the other day, purchasing a plasma screen
>> TV. After they'd negotiated the price - about $4,400 for an LG
>> highish-res
>> panel, the sales guy then suggested they purchase a special component
>> cable for hooking up their DVD player to the screen to achieve the best
>> quality from their new screen.
>>
>> For demonstration, he switched the panel to split-screen mode showing the
>> same DVD title playing on each half, but connected by different cables.
>> He
>> was attempting to imply that the marked difference between the two images
>> was due to the use of a "Monster" brand component video cable on one
>> input. My friend gave me a call at the time and explained what the sales
>> guy was trying to say, and commented that the Monster side had better
>> detail in the blacks and looked better than the other half. I told her
>> that it sounded like a scam and hold off for the moment - she could
>> always
>> purchase it at a later date, as he wasn't offering any great deal on the
>> cable.
>>
>> Subsequently, I worked out that they had hooked up the component output
>> of
>> the DVD player to one side, and the composite output to the other, and
>> was
>> then trying to claim that the improved picture was purely due to the
>> Monster brand cable.
>>
>> This strikes me as a blatantly dishonest and misleading demonstration -
>> the salesman never stated that the difference in quality was largely (if
>> not entirely) due to the alternative signal format, rather he
>> misrepresented the comparison with the goal of selling an obscenely
>> overpriced cable of dubious benefit over a base-quality component cable.
>>
>> Why? The 1m Monster cable costs $270.
>>
>> Methinks a call to the ACCC is in order.
>
> Go back to the store, ask to see the demo again but the brand of the
> cables
> reversed. The expensive cable should be worse.
>
> Say its all a scam, and do a chargeback on the credit card (say its
> fraud/misrepresentation), return the TV. Tell them you will happily go to
> court.
>
> gtoomey