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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] A sheckle for that USB cable you must be mad

From: "Stefan Trethan" <stefan_trethan@...>
Date: 2006-07-25

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:04:07 +0200, Andrew <andrewm1973@...> wrote:

> I realy doubt that big places like wally world
> and home office dungeon realy pay 3 $ for a USB
> cable.
> That is just proposterous.
> 3 $ is way too much.
> I pay $16.50 (Australian = $13 USD) for 10 of
> 1.5 meter USB A-B cables.
> Thats 1.65 $ ($1.30 USD) each and I am only
> buying 10 at a time. I would imagine that the
> big guys would pay sub $1 :D
> It amazing they can survive on only 97% GP
> markups isn't it :S


Same here, i bought a LAN cable at the wrong store for a similarly
incredible price.

ST