Low Price Guarantee on cables

I went to worldOfCables.com for a particular cable because they indicate on their website a Lowest Price Guarantee.

It took me all of about 3 seconds to find plenty of providers of the exact same cable at almost half the price. Their price was over $18 and there were plenty of sites that were selling the same product under $11 with a few in the $9 range. Shipping cost was similar so that didn't have an impact on the overall total cost.

I decided to call them and ask what they could do on the pricing based on their low price "guarantee". The response was that they couldn't go below their pricing of $11.87. I indicated that it wasn't much of a guarantee if they don't honor it.

It's comical in the respect that their pricing isn't good, they don't honor their guarantee of lowest price; and finally, I completely dislike when a company uses a marketing ploy, in my opinion, to appear to the consumer that they have the lowest prices by putting a low price guarantee on the website.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Their marketing ploy not only got you to their site, but it also got you talking about it on a message board with 87181 members.

Yea, just keep telling everyone to stay away from worldOfCables because they are nothing more than a scam operation. They should be gone soon enough.

Marketing is one thing but flat out not honoring a "guarantee" is a whole different game. The good part of it is that it got me off my but to find some other decent ones out there.

One that I found recently (www.findacable.com) and have passed onto friends seems to have a real gem of a surprise.

A nice little gem of a surprise is that if you live in Ohio, Indiana, parts of Illinois, and parts of Kentucky, you can actually get what you ordered the next day at ground shipping rates. I think the rest is 2 days or something like that. I don't know all the states but it has something to do with the location of one of their distribution centers.

Hey, good prices, good quality, fast delivery....what else is needed.

Marketing is one thing but flat out not honoring a "guarantee" is a whole different game. The good part of it is that it got me off my but to find some other decent ones out there.

One that I found recently (www.findacable.com) and have passed onto friends seems to have a real gem of a surprise.

A nice little gem of a surprise is that if you live in Ohio, Indiana, parts of Illinois, and parts of Kentucky, you can actually get what you ordered the next day at ground shipping rates. I think the rest is 2 days or something like that. I don't know all the states but it has something to do with the location of one of their distribution centers.

Hey, good prices, good quality, fast delivery....what else is needed.

Another Wiring/Cable provider recommended often at this forum is WWW.Monoprice.com great prices and service.