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Offline Blaise170

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Mini USB cables with free Prime Shipping $3 each
« on: Wed, 24 June 2015, 12:04:27 »
Good for a lot of the keyboards that come with mini USB connectors.

http://amzn.to/1FBpcOh
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Re: Mini USB cables with free Prime Shipping $3 each
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 24 June 2015, 12:30:59 »
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Re: Mini USB cables with free Prime Shipping $3 each
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 24 June 2015, 12:59:23 »
I don't like buying eBay cables because I don't know what brand they are.  :))
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Re: Mini USB cables with free Prime Shipping $3 each
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 24 June 2015, 13:07:56 »
I have bought a lot of cheap crap cables like this on ebay, and I assume that 10%+ of them will not be good, but the prices are so cheap that I figure I still come out ahead.

The exception is flash drives, I have bought at least a dozen off ebay and the majority of them were no good.

For those, I buy Kingston, Toshiba, and MicroCenter house brand. My daughter has a 5-year-old Kingston that has been through the washer and dryer at least twice and still works perfectly!
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Re: Mini USB cables with free Prime Shipping $3 each
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 24 June 2015, 13:21:09 »
Yep - a few years ago I bought a 128GB flash drive off eBay for $30. I should have known better. It crapped out after a few months of light use. Meanwhile, my old SanDisk Cruzer from like 2008 is still going strong, even after years of being thrown around on my keychain.
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Re: Mini USB cables with free Prime Shipping $3 each
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 24 June 2015, 15:44:57 »
A USB cable isn't worth more than a few pennies.
The markup,  shipping and handling on  these is obscene.

I simply cannot  justify more than about 10 shipped for a braided cable.

The vendors here regularly top $50 for a USB cable
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Re: Mini USB cables with free Prime Shipping $3 each
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 24 June 2015, 17:36:56 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Wed, 24 June 2015, 13:07:56
My daughter has a 5-year-old Kingston that has been through the washer and dryer at least twice and still works perfectly!

There are easier ways of erasing a flash drive ;) :p
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Re: Mini USB cables with free Prime Shipping $3 each
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 24 June 2015, 22:11:16 »
Those are handdone, though. That's a totally different thing.
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