Most of the time is you get what you paid for. It is
rare to find test equipment at such a bargain. I
remember using a Sanwa multimeter which has it's fuse
blown when the probes were short when testing
resistance............  Talk about poor design and
functionality. Save up hard to own that dream piece of
equipment :D

John

--- Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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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