[stosh]

The thread about cheap glasses inspired me....

There was a few great suggestion in there for site to buy glasses from I had never heard of so it got me thinking what do other people use for other purchases?

This was the place for prescription glasses
http://www.zennioptical.com/

For me I use Monoprice for home electronic accessories like cables, outdoor speakers, car chargers and more.
www.monoprice.com

This was mentioned in the other thread as well for cellphone stuff:
http://www.cellphoneshop.net/

 

[bizutch]

http://www.geomangear.com/

 

[Gunner]

For me I use Monoprice for home electronic accessories like cables, outdoor speakers, car chargers and more.
www.monoprice.com

LOVE monoprice.

 

[stosh]

LOVE monoprice.

Me too, I realized I have way to many cables at home because of them though.....

 

[Gunner]

I have more HDMI cables than I know what to do with.

 

[dante]

So far 2 for 3 on www.dealextreme.com. I bought the 900 Lumen headlamp for $45 that Arkayne suggested, shipped from the US warehouse almost immediately and had it in under a week (and holy poop this thing is bright! Blows any other sub-$50 light out of the water). Ordered a ton of other random headlights/tail lights (5? 6?) that all averaged $4-5 apiece, they shipped from HK and got here in ~3.5 weeks. Went back and ordered a different 900 Lumen headlamp from the US warehouse, they charged my credit card that day and...... no light. Finally found out it's backordered last week after chatting/emailing, but no notification, no email alerting me to this fact, nothing.

They have offered to cancel my order if I want, but what I REALLY want is another super-bright Li-Ion headlamp for $45. We'll see what happens. So, great site 2/3rds of the time, and occasionally there's a SNAFU and your order gets delayed?

 

[Matchew]

I'm always on Parts Express for speaker stuff, great customer service too. They give great parts advice and have awesome driver rebuild kits and assembly required kits for pretty cheap. Saved me a lot on audio stuff.
http://www.parts-express.com

 

[IH8Rice]

buy.com usually has some pretty good deals

 

[ICEBALL585]

One decent site for helmets, body armor, etc is http://www.xsportsprotective.com. Not all the prices are super cheap but there are some decent deals in there. Recently bought the 661 assault pressure suit for $60 (free shipping) and it came in less than a week.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

Ordered an HDMI switcher and 3 HDMI cables from Monoprice for $48 shipped that came in the other day. Stuff seems really good quality for the price and seems to be working well.

 

[stevew]

angrymetalsmith wishes you would buy local.

 

[ICEBALL585]

angrymetalsmith wishes you would buy local.

Our local bike shops have great selection of stuff for roadies but horrible selection of stuff for mtn bikers.

 

[dante]

I buy locally grown, manufactured and brewed products. Let me know when there's a locally owned manufacturer making eyeglasses here instead of importing frames and lens-blanks for $10 and selling them for $400. I won't give my business to an Italian company that holds a monopoly on eyeglasses here in the US and still imports their products from China just so that a tiny % of the 2000% markup can go back to the lady behind the counter who makes sure my glasses fit right.