MonoPrice has good deals on cables. I needed a firewire cable for my video camera, and the total (including USPS first-class shipping and tax) was $5.97 for a 6ft cable.
Here is what you would pay at some popular retail stores. All of the prices below include 7.25% tax and I added shipping to the Monoprice price.
| Company |
Price |
Comments |
| Monoprice |
$5.97 |
|
| BestBuy |
$38.69 |
|
| Circuit City |
$27.94 |
|
| CompUSA |
$4.29 |
Wow, that’s a really good deal! I should have checked there before buying it on Monoprice |
How about another item - a 14ft network cable (CAT5). At Monoprice you can get one for $5.41 (in every color of the rainbow).
| Company |
Price |
Comments |
| Monoprice |
$5.41 |
|
| BestBuy |
$25.79 |
|
| Circuit City |
$19.34 |
|
| CompUSA |
$6.44 |
Man, that’s still a good deal. I always thought they were expensive. |
Let’s do one more comparison to see if CompUSA’s prices are an anomaly or if they really have low prices across the board.
4-port PS/2 KVM switch w/4 3-in-1 KVM cables
| Company |
Price |
Comments |
| Monoprice |
$29.77 |
|
| BestBuy |
$161.24 |
The only 4-port KVM I could find had USB ports. There was a 2-port PS/2 KVM for $35.46 |
| Circuit City |
$75.19 |
This only gets you a 2-port, but I couldn’t find a 4-port |
| CompUSA |
$68.79 |
|
So that’s at least one example where Monoprice really shines. In my experience they’ve had much lower prices than anywhere else I could find. I wonder if CompUSA is changing their pricing structure.
As a side note, the search on BestBuy, Monoprice and CompUSA were all great. CircuitCity on the other hand was awful. I searched for ‘network cable’ and it didn’t have a single network cable in the results.
