Cingular store ripoff pricing on accesories

I check out my local Cingular store for a Sony car charger for my new
(Free from Cingular) Sony/Ericsson W600i.

They charge $29.99 for a car charger, but its not a Sony car charger,
it's a no-name charger from China that seems identical to the one I
could buy for $3.99 from eforcity.com

http://store.eforcity.com/cerik750cc01.html


And strangely enough the charger is $26.99 at Cingular's web site.

http://cingular.scp4me.com/ItemDetai...ake=SONY%20ERI
CSSON&model=W600i&ProductClass=CHARGING


And big surprise, Sony sells their W600i OEM Car Charger for $19.99 on
their web site.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?...mplate=pp4_1_1
&zone=pp&lm=pp4_1&pid=10260

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Jack Zwick wrote:
> I check out my local Cingular store for a Sony car charger for my new
> (Free from Cingular) Sony/Ericsson W600i.
>
> They charge $29.99 for a car charger, but its not a Sony car charger,
> it's a no-name charger from China that seems identical to the one I
> could buy for $3.99 from eforcity.com

Verizon does the exact same thing. Low quality accessories at high prices.

"Jack Zwick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I check out my local Cingular store for a Sony car charger for my new
> (Free from Cingular) Sony/Ericsson W600i.
>
> They charge $29.99 for a car charger, but its not a Sony car charger,
> it's a no-name charger from China that seems identical to the one I
> could buy for $3.99 from eforcity.com


You must be new to cell phones and the free market in general. The prices at
the Cingular stores have always been absurd. They rely on lazy, uninformed
consumers. That's why God invented....shopping.

Ric wrote:
> "Jack Zwick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> I check out my local Cingular store for a Sony car charger for my new
>> (Free from Cingular) Sony/Ericsson W600i.
>>
>> They charge $29.99 for a car charger, but its not a Sony car charger,
>> it's a no-name charger from China that seems identical to the one I
>> could buy for $3.99 from eforcity.com
>
>
> You must be new to cell phones and the free market in general. The prices at
> the Cingular stores have always been absurd. They rely on lazy, uninformed
> consumers. That's why God invented....shopping.
>
>

ebay.com and Google, need I say more?

"Jack Zwick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I check out my local Cingular store for a Sony car charger for my new
> (Free from Cingular) Sony/Ericsson W600i.
>
> They charge $29.99 for a car charger, but its not a Sony car charger,
> it's a no-name charger from China that seems identical to the one I
> could buy for $3.99 from eforcity.com
>
> http://store.eforcity.com/cerik750cc01.html
>
>
> And strangely enough the charger is $26.99 at Cingular's web site.
>
> http://cingular.scp4me.com/ItemDetai...ake=SONY%20ERI
> CSSON&model=W600i&ProductClass=CHARGING
>
>
> And big surprise, Sony sells their W600i OEM Car Charger for $19.99 on
> their web site.
>
> http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?...mplate=pp4_1_1
> &zone=pp&lm=pp4_1&pid=10260

you probably went to a Cingular dealer and not the Corp store..

your always going to pay higher then 'online' prices in a store.. mostly
because it costs money to run a store.

"Ric" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:L%[email protected]...

>
>
> You must be new to cell phones and the free market in general. The prices
> at the Cingular stores have always been absurd. They rely on lazy,
> uninformed consumers. That's why God invented....shopping.
>

Jack is actually a long time user. He just likes to ***** and whine like a
child about the "injustices" carried out on him by his current carrier. He
did it with Sprint and is now doing it with Cingular- his contract is
probably about to end.

"Scott" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Ric" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:L%[email protected]...
>
>>
>>
>> You must be new to cell phones and the free market in general. The prices
>> at the Cingular stores have always been absurd. They rely on lazy,
>> uninformed consumers. That's why God invented....shopping.
>>
>
> Jack is actually a long time user. He just likes to ***** and whine like
> a child about the "injustices" carried out on him by his current carrier.
> He did it with Sprint and is now doing it with Cingular- his contract is
> probably about to end.
>

He does the same thing over in the tivo and directv newsgroups too.

Scott wrote:
> "Ric" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:L%[email protected]...
>
>>
>> You must be new to cell phones and the free market in general. The prices
>> at the Cingular stores have always been absurd. They rely on lazy,
>> uninformed consumers. That's why God invented....shopping.
>>
>
> Jack is actually a long time user. He just likes to ***** and whine like a
> child about the "injustices" carried out on him by his current carrier. He
> did it with Sprint and is now doing it with Cingular- his contract is
> probably about to end.
>
>
He can have my Nextel Contract !!!!!!!!!!! and I will give him a
discount on the phones and data cable

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:elmop-
>
> Why is that a ripoff? You're free not to buy it from them.
>
>

One expects to pay more for "official" OEM merchandise, with the presumption
that it may work better, or be more compatible with one's name-brand
handset.

One does not expect to pay top dollar for cheap knockoffs, being sold by the
official retailer, as though the goods were of the same quality as OEM.

What is so difficult to comprehend about that?

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In <vhKFf.35873$DV2.21316@trnddc07> on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:52:59 GMT, "Jeremy"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:elmop-
>>
>> Why is that a ripoff? You're free not to buy it from them.
>
>One expects to pay more for "official" OEM merchandise, with the presumption
>that it may work better, or be more compatible with one's name-brand
>handset.
>
>One does not expect to pay top dollar for cheap knockoffs, being sold by the
>official retailer, as though the goods were of the same quality as OEM.
>
>What is so difficult to comprehend about that?

The market doesn't work like that. If it were a ripoff, then no one would be
buying. What's happening is that people are putting a high value on
convenience and brand loyalty. That you don't have the same feelings doesn't
make them any less valid for others.

--
Best regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:

> He's perfectly free to read the packaging and know that it's not a
> genuine anything--but he doesn't. That's his prerogative. He may be an
> idiot, but he's allowed to be an idiot.

Many people expect that the carrier's own stores would be selling OEM
merchandise. It's not like going to Target or the flea market for
accessories, where it's clearly after-market.

You're correct that it's really the buyer's responsibility to know what
he or she is buying, but it's also unethical for the store to be selling
this junk at such high prices.

Not just cingular stores....Best Buy, circuit city et al.....

>>>
>>> You must be new to cell phones and the free market in general. The prices
>>> at the Cingular stores have always been absurd. They rely on lazy,
>>> uninformed consumers. That's why God invented....shopping.
>>>

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In <[email protected]> on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:30:13
-0800, SMS <[email protected]> wrote:

>Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>
>> He's perfectly free to read the packaging and know that it's not a
>> genuine anything--but he doesn't. That's his prerogative. He may be an
>> idiot, but he's allowed to be an idiot.
>
>Many people expect that the carrier's own stores would be selling OEM
>merchandise. It's not like going to Target or the flea market for
>accessories, where it's clearly after-market.

In fact the non-OEM charger might well be better than the OEM charger, which
is often the cheapest thing the OEM can find; e.g., my non-OEM car charger for
my Motorola phone is quite a bit better than the more expensive OEM charger.

>You're correct that it's really the buyer's responsibility to know what
>he or she is buying, but it's also unethical for the store to be selling
>this junk at such high prices.

Nonsense -- there's nothing remotely unethical.

--
Best regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

That's largely due to high overhead. There's a price for convenience.

In <[email protected]> on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:28:05
GMT, Rusty <[email protected]> wrote:

>Not just cingular stores....Best Buy, circuit city et al.....
>
>>>> You must be new to cell phones and the free market in general. The prices
>>>> at the Cingular stores have always been absurd. They rely on lazy,
>>>> uninformed consumers. That's why God invented....shopping.

--
Best regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> He's perfectly free to read the packaging and know that it's not a
>>> genuine anything--but he doesn't. That's his prerogative. He may be an
>>> idiot, but he's allowed to be an idiot.
>> Many people expect that the carrier's own stores would be selling OEM
>> merchandise.
>
> People would be wrong. People are wrong to expect ANYTHING.
>
> Trust, but verify. If you can't be bothered to look at the packaging,
> that's your problem.

Well if you're ordering on-line, you can't look at the packaging. I
learned this when I ordered a phone from Verizon. I sent their
gawd-awful car charger, case, and headset back, at their expense.

Car chargers is where you really have to be careful, as almost all of
the after-market car chargers are pure junk.