Craigslist Sellers Flagging Reasonably Priced Wiis To Increase Profits, Piss Me Off

Jason Chen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:15:00 EDT

Didn't these people's mammas teach them right? What kind of fool would take a reasonably priced listing for $250 on this Craigslist for a Nintendo Wii and flag it as inappropriate? The kinda fool that wants to sell their own for $350 and get rid of all the competition. These people got pea brains, and they're punks on top of that. It's time for T to head down to the Slickdeals forums and show these suckas why Mr. T puts the T in I.T. Has it occurred to you that Mr. T is good at computers? Mr. T won't stand for this price gouging.

HDMI Cable: Price Gouging?

Charlie White — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:15:13 EDT

Yesterday we mentioned Best Buy selling Monster HDMI cables for upwards of $80, and reader Todd pointed us to a website offering no-name 6-foot HDMI cables for $6.37. Taking a quick glance at the Best Buy website, there's an HDMI Cable that's 2 feet shorter, a 4-foot length from Monster Cable for $149.99. The lowest-priced HDMI Cable we could find there was a 3-foot length by Acoustic Research for the relative bargain price of $72.99.

We dug a little deeper, and noticed that Best Buy wasn't the only electronics purveyor hopping on the HDMI gravy train. Checking online stores, it appears that everyone wants to get in on the act of selling Monster Cable—or any HDMI Cable—for seemingly inflated prices. Of course, these cables are gold plated, right? Help us out here. Is there really $143.62 worth of difference? How can we test this? – Charlie White

Gizmodo: Price Gouging

Craigslist Sellers Flagging Reasonably Priced Wiis To Increase Profits, Piss Me Off

HDMI Cable: Price Gouging?