On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:21:53 +0100 (BST), you wrote:

>Wouter,
>
>On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:06:08 +0200, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>
>> > I
>> > still could not believe for example that a microcontroller =

>> > has quite the
>> > similar price as a 3 way 2.5mm connector =

>> =

>> Things are must worse/strange than that. For some cables I can get a 5 m
>> cable with two connectors cheaper than 1 connector.
>
>Ah, you don't shop at PC World in England (obviously! :-)  They had a bask=
et full of 1.8m USB A-B cables, with a sign above saying something like =

>"We keep prices down" and the price of the cables: UK=A314.95 (US$28.40, 2=
2.13 Euros) !  If that's keeping them down, I'd hate to see them letting th=
em =

>rise!  :-)  They weren't even gold-plated...

It's part of their strategy of low prices on big items & rip-off on accesso=
ries, helped by big
'cable not included' labels on the boxes.  I nearly got thrown out once whe=
n a guy in front of me in
the queue was told by the checkout girl that he needed a =A315 USB cable fo=
r his =A335 printer & I
pointed out that he could get it from Asda for 3 quid..!

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