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.
Those are great prices. I also found a great site recently – mycablemart.com. By far the cheapest prices on HDMI cables I’ve ever seen. They have plenty of other products, but I haven’t done much research on how their prices compare. I’ll bookmark monoprice for future purchases.
Thanks for the pointer to mycablemart.com, I’ll check them out.