[sclug] USB cable prices

[John Stumbles]

Simon Champion wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've been shopping for USB cables, and I've noticed some massive price 
> differences for what look like the same product.  Cables in the high street 
> shops seem to retail at about ?10 - ?15, but if you look online there are ads 
> for them as low as 70 pence.
> 
> I'm not normally the suspicious type, but those prices are so wildly 
> different, it's hard not to notice. But I can't work out why. Can anyone tell 
> me what I should be looking out for here.

I'm sure it's like audio cabl^H^H^Hinterconnects. The expensive ones 
will give you cleaner, brighter, more authoritative, well-rounded, 
fully-formed natural-sounding data. :-)


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John Stumbles