Re:How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon [video]
by hakfoo on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @01:51AM
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I like Monoprice, but their affordable RCA cables are pretty bad. The connectors are stiff and brittle. So the first time you fit it, it requires massive force to get it in place, and if you unplug it a few times, it's so loose it makes no contaact and can't be recrimped.
OTOH, fancy RCA cables sell for next to nothing at thrift shops now.
Re:How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon [video]
by clairity on Monday December 17, 2018 @02:21PM
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monoprice is inexpensive but be certain of ordering what you need because returns are not economical. i ordered two items (among others) that i wasn't sure would work for my application. they didn't, so i requested a return. the return shipping cost was as much as the cables/cords themselves, so now they're just lying around adding clutter to my life.
Wow, how did your 3,918 cables arrive? Was it a full-sized goods truck or a couple of crates?
(This is, for the unaware, a joke on how inexpensive-yet-still-excellent Monoprice's cables are. Every time I order a clutch of Ethernet or USB cables, I wind up ordering three times as many just to make the order total greater than the shipping total and to have spares for later use.)