> I nearly got thrown out once when a guy in front of me in
> the queue was told by the checkout girl that he needed a =A315 USB cable =
for
his =A335 printer & I
> pointed out that he could get it from Asda for 3 quid..!

Some retailer says that if you use other type of cable then you loose the
warranty. I do not like tricks like that. Like in Maplin there are two LCD
o'scopes, one of them is 10MHz, the other one is 40MHz, but it turns out
that 10MHz means 10MHz sampling so you can measure 2MHz only. That was the
first shock, the other one was that the price of the 10MHz was quite ok, but
they do not provide couple of things (probes, case, rs232 etc) with the
device as with the 40MHz one (well, 12MHz :-) ) so that if you buy all the
stuff the price is pretty much the same... Why they doing this? I'd rather
buy something more expensive but been told the exact price before my
decision than having the feeling that I've been set up again.

Tamas


On 05/09/06, Mike Harrison <mike@whitewing.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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
> basket 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,
> 22.13 Euros) !  If that's keeping them down, I'd hate to see them letting
> them
> >rise!  :-)  They weren't even gold-plated...
>
> It's part of their strategy of low prices on big items & rip-off on
> accessories, helped by big
> 'cable not included' labels on the boxes.  I nearly got thrown out once
> when a guy in front of me in
> the queue was told by the checkout girl that he needed a =A315 USB cable =
for
> his =A335 printer & I
> pointed out that he could get it from Asda for 3 quid..!
>
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