Monster Cable warns about rip off retailers

CABLE AND HEADPHONE ALCHEMIST Monster Cable has listed a number of blacklisted retailers and warned consumers to be on the lookout for people selling low priced knockoffs of its high priced products.

The firm lists a number of potential sources for its hardware on its home page, including Ebay and Facebook and big high street retailers like Sears.com.

Hundreds of web stores are listed by the firm, which warns that they might sell cables that break easily, as presumably Monster's do not. As well as Ebay and the other more mysterious choices, the firm has also named other obvious targets such as "guccishoeschina.com" and "beats-bydre-outlet.net".

"If a price for a product being sold as Monster from a non-authorized dealer seems 'too good to be true,' most likely it is, and is not a genuine Monster product," warns the firm.

"Counterfeit Monster products do not meet the high standards of quality and performance you expect from Monster. For example, many of the counterfeit HDMI cables will not carry a 1080p signal properly. You may pay less, but you will not get the performance you expect."

Earlier this year The INQUIRER spent some time trying to work out what it was that made Monster's cables so expensive, and thanks to some documentation from the firm we realised that they just are.

In a rather large document on HDMI it said, "Monster may cost more, but it's worth it," and claimed that its products are made with precision manufacturing techniques and exceed current specification so that they don't need to be upgraded. µ