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Not so great deal of the week: wireless headphones
I was going to tell you about a great deal I saw at the San Marcos Prime Outlet Sony store — 900 MHz refurbished wireless headphones for $29.99 (down from a retail price of about $100).
I tried them on and they were comfy. The sound wasn’t bad from a nearby DVD of “The Hunt for Red October.” I noticed a bit of static but I figured it was because I was in a massive room full of electronics and lots of people walking around using cell phones. If I didn’t already have my own home-rigged patched-together extension cord for my earbuds to use late at night while playing videogames when my wife’s asleep, I might have bought them.
According to the reviews on Amazon, I might have regretted doing so. The static appears to be a chronic problem. If you have a microwave oven, an Xbox 360 with wireless controllers or other potentially interfering devices, you probably want to stay away from these.
Which points to the larger lesson: always hunt online for consumer reviews before you make major electronics purchases.
It also doesn’t hurt to do a quick Web search for a $30 “hot deal.”
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