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The "IT'S AN ABSOLUTE BARGAIN!" thread.
Stig
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I needed a new HDMI cable. Tried in Comet and Maplins but their cheapest were both around the £30 mark. Decided to try online and found this on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wired-up-v1-3A-Plated-Connectors-Cable/dp/B0017RW94A
26p plus 99p for postage. If there's any difference in picture quality, I can't make it out. IT'S AN ABSOLUTE BARGAIN!
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Yea my dad was about to do the maplins thing for one and I pointed out amazon0
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It's impossible to have a difference in quality.
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It's impossible to have a difference in quality.
indeed, I picked up a cheap one in the past and the picture quality was awful0 -
http://www.hotukdeals.com - Brilliant site!0
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wires are the biggest ripoffs in those places. I've seen an HDMI cable in Currys for almost £100 before. Frankly if you pay that, you deserve to get mugged off,Ebay or Amazon is always the best place to get stuff like that0
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Never buy expensive HDMI Cables
"Safari can't find server" - is that what happens?0 -
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Sorry, try that one...
Really interesting....never knew that.
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I needed a new HDMI cable. Tried in Comet and Maplins but their cheapest were both around the £30 mark. Decided to try online and found this on Amazon:
I got one from Poundland, what do I win?http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wired-up-v1-3A-Plated-Connectors-Cable/dp/B0017RW94A26p plus 99p for postage. If there's any difference in picture quality, I can't make it out. IT'S AN ABSOLUTE BARGAIN!
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They either work or they dont.
0 or a 1 thats all thats going down it.
If I had the money though, I would buy realy expensive ones just for the look of them.
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Hey? Do you know what impossible means? It's a digital signal, it's either 100% or 0% (or 1 or 0.)It's impossible to have a difference in quality.
indeed, I picked up a cheap one in the past and the picture quality was awful
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Feel sorry for the amount of people who buy HDMI cables in currys etc who don't know any better.
I use a couple of £2 ones I got from Amazon a year ago still going fine and there's no problems with them.
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At a slight tangent, instrument cable ( as in plugging a guitar or whatever in) is in the same place- the manufacturers claims are ridiculous, in fact some of the best sounds can come from a cheap curly lead from currys, as they attenuate the top end, getting rid of the harshness- Hendrix and S.R.V. were advocates of this.
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Assume this thread is for all "Absolute Bargains"....well i see your cheap cable and raise you a Charlton season ticket...cause when they are top of the league and playing good footy it is the best value for money i have spent in a while...shame it is just recouping some of the poor value for money over the last few years!0
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Yes, I bought one from Amazon for just over a £1 some months ago and it was fine.Before that was looking in TESCOs where they were @£20!!!!!0
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I got a 15m HDMI cable so I can have HD in the shed. Paid a tenner for it.0
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I think I would complain to 'Which' magazine because they have tried and tested all the cheap and expensive HDMIs and usually recommend the mid price ranging cables. I thought 'Which' were on the side of the consumer!
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i'm after wireless telephone extensions - anyone know where I can get them cheap ?0
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I think I would complain to 'Which' magazine because they have tried and tested all the cheap and expensive HDMIs and usually recommend the mid price ranging cables. I thought 'Which' were on the side of the consumer!
When Which? lab tested the following HDMI leads, the cheapest lead proved just as good as the most expensive:
A £10 Tesco Value HDMI lead
A £20 John Lewis HDMI lead
A £100 Belkin HDMI lead
Amazingly, our expert viewers saw no difference at all in the picture quality when using the three HDMI leads, with our technical tests confirming identical performances. We passed data through all our HDMI leads at 6.2Gb per second – a data rate more demanding than Blu-ray – without a single error occurring.
Read more: http://www.which.co.uk/news/2010/02/no-need-for-expensive-scart-and-hdmi-leads-204691/#ixzz1iavPDmpk
Consumer Champions Which?
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial
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The Gadget Show did the same test and got the same result. No different bewteen cheap and dear ones.
http://fwd.channel5.com/gadget-show/videos/news/hdmi-cable-test
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Cheap day trip to france http://www.poferries.com/tourist/content/pages/template/offers_day_trip_offer_day_trip_offer.htm0
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Even better is this free ferry crossing:
http://www.calaiswine.co.uk/offers0 -
Nice ! although the 6 free bottles cancels any fee to travel surely0
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Even better is this free ferry crossing:
This is no bargain when you have to spend £400 with them to get it !
http://www.calaiswine.co.uk/offers
Eurotunnel are doing £29 midweek day trips if you PHONE and ask.
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Valiant. I am assuming that you would go over there to buy wine (amongst other things.) Check the price against English prices and you save over £2 a bottle - mimimum. I have just come back and got wine there at £2 a bottle which is £7 over here.
And the ferry crossing is not £400 (that's Eurotunnel) but £250. They also sell ales much cheaper than over here.0 -
Like any deal its got restrictions, there is no such thing as a free lunch. However, if you are going to Calais it can only be to buy wine, Calais itself is a shit-hole. Therefore this offer is a good idea for those wanting a bumper amount of wine, the other deal for those who just want six bottles.Even better is this free ferry crossing:
This is no bargain when you have to spend £400 with them to get it !
http://www.calaiswine.co.uk/offers
Eurotunnel are doing £29 midweek day trips if you PHONE and ask.
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Guys - surely the point is.......
Like any deal its got restrictions, there is no such thing as a free lunch. However, if you are going to Calais it can only be to buy wine, Calais itself is a shit-hole. Therefore this offer is a good idea for those wanting a bumper amount of wine, the other deal for those who just want six bottles.Even better is this free ferry crossing:
This is no bargain when you have to spend £400 with them to get it !
http://www.calaiswine.co.uk/offers
Eurotunnel are doing £29 midweek day trips if you PHONE and ask.
Not available online.
Book your own trip on Eurotunnel for £29, buy at least 15 bottles of wine (saving £2 a bottle) from anywhere you choose and you are in front.
As opposed to spending hundreds in one place in return for a crossing worth £29 !
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Valiant. The choice is yours of course. I have done the trip many, many times with friends and we have saved a considerable sum on doing it this way. As DRF says this method pays for itself if you want quantity but if you can get the wine cheaper elsewhere then go for it.
ps they take sterling so you don't have to lose on exchange rate or credit/debit card transactions. I found out to my cost just how expensive that can be.0
