Top 10 Worst Tech Rip-Offs You’ve Probably Bought – Gear UP^
Top 10 Worst Tech Rip-Offs You’ve Probably Bought – Gear UP^
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Tech can be expensive, and sometimes electronics are not worth the money. Some of the biggest tech rip-offs you’ve probably been tricked into buying include landlines, ringtones and pricey HDMI cables. And who among us hasn’t bought an extended warranty that we never even used? WatchMojo teams up with tech-spert Marc Saltzman to talk about ten of the biggest tech rip-offs and how to avoid them!
Be sure to check out the other videos in the Gear UP series HERE:
00:39 #1. Pricey HDMI Cables
01:12 #2. Extended Warranties
01:46 #3. InHome Calibration
02:27 #4. Rental Cable Modems
03:00 #5. Buying a Phone Through Your Carrier
03:32 #6. Internal Memory for Smartphones
04:09 #7. Configuring Your New Laptop with More RAM
04:39 #8. Ringtones
05:20 #9. Overseas Calls
05:59 #10. Landlines
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A better quality HDMI cable actually does perfom better than a 1€ one.Watch mojo got this wrong
no PSP ? 😀 LOL
some are bullshit, some don’t
This vid is dangerously irresponsible, not giving necessary info just say do this and don’t do this. In tech trades, a consumer knows all won’t get ripped off, a consumer knows nothing is way to vigilant to be scammed, only people knowing a little but thinks they are genius that kind of douche will suffer.
HDMI cables have several version, from HDMI 1.0 to HDMI 2.0, that alone can cause great difference in price, and there are things like material quality and extra shielding measures, sure there are rip-off items, but to say “just buy the cheap ones” are dumb AF, you can buy from dollar shop if you don’t care about data bandwidth capacity at all. In video/audio world, cable is one of the most expensive item, I guess this dude never heard of a 0.5 metre audio cable sells for 5 grand EZ.
And “don’t buy cellphone thru contract” really ? This can only come from someone use the minimum cellphone plan, you know the rest of us have jobs right? It’s not like buying a cellphone outright then you don’t need to pay your phone bills, you already paying this much, you are getting a free phone anyway, only idiots or again douches would buy one instead when they are not phone fanatics, not everyone care about what phone they use, they just need it to be usable.
Certain Android version have a problem, that the third party app can’t write from or into your SD card, can you for real say you don’t use any third party apps at all?
cellphones can have a region lock, and it’s quite common, go to another country and buying a local card is not optional in some cased.
the biggest ripoff –> The Iphone
You need to watch out when you plan to add RAM yourself. Depending on how it is configured, you may have to throw away the RAM that comes with it. Say you’re buying a laptop with 4GB and you want a total of 8GB. There are probably 2 RAM slots. You may get lucky and they have used a single 4GB stick, so you can add another one. But more likely, they have used two 2GB sticks, so you will have to buy all 8GB you want and replace both sticks.
Didn’t watch the video yet but if you bought an iPhone 7 your a tool
#11 Answering machine service from your carrier.
TURN IT OFF.
They claim the call way too fast and almost nobody speaks to that dam machine.
But if you call the machine your carrier can get double the money because now it is 2 calls instead of 1.
If you turn it off and you mis a call then your carrier can NOT charge you for it and you can see who already see who it was that called you.
paying for netflix and all those other american movies sites when you can just watch everything for free from piratebay or extratotrrents lol
i dunno i was glad i got my warranty on my xbox 360 cause i got the red ring of death twice and if i hadnt gotten the warranty on it i would of been out 100 just to fix it