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I just bought two 9-foot HDMI cables for $8.99

Amazon Basics is awesome.

I have the Rain Design stand, and out of curiosity I checked those just now on Amazon. Seems Rain Design has suffixed their product with (Patented) now. I'm guessing they are less than thrilled with Amazon at this point.

The Amazon Basics items I've seen could be described as "the minimum acceptable". It's better than the typical Chinese junk, but anyone upmarket shouldn't have to worry.

Then it was a genius idea. There's tons of awful, broken stuff for really cheap on Amazon. With basics you get something you can at least know it works and if not can complain to someone.

On this front Walmart is so much better.