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Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog They must have forgot to put it in I thought and dutifully tramped down to Currys expecting to pay £3 or £4 for the cable - after all if HP didn’t think to put it in the box, it must be a commodity item that costs peanuts right?
[December 5, 2007, 12:17]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment I spoke too soon - here's the response from DSG/Currys: First, can we apologise for the delay in replying but also that you were not properly informed at the time of purchase that a USB cable doesn't come with the printer.
[December 12, 2007, 15:32]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Anyway -- at least HP have got back to me, which is more than Currys or DSG have bothered to do. So have finally heard back from HP over why they are opting not to put USB cables in with their printers anymore.
[December 12, 2007, 8:51]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment But even if we agree that people should read boxes - the blog was actually about the fact that Currys think its alright to charge people £16.99 for a piece of cable! So there have been a couple of comments on this blog entry - that have taken the...
[January 28, 2008, 16:20]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment This unfortunately not new. Printer manufactures started cutting out the USB cable form their printers for a while now to save on costs. This makes sense for some devices as I have a million USB cables that do the same job for lots of devices.
[December 5, 2007, 14:29]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Thanks David, I did realise that I was paying through the nose but really needed to get the printer up and running to make sure its Mac compatible claims were real - especially as I just upgraded to Leopard.
[December 5, 2007, 15:21]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment There are other, very good reasons not to shop at Tesco's of course.
[December 5, 2007, 18:04]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment My personal worst example of this was from PC World, who wanted to charge me £15 for a VGA-DVI adaptor. Maplin sell them for £10 but even that seems excessive given that you can pick them up on eBay for less than a fiver.
[December 6, 2007, 9:24]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment One of the biggest problems with Dixon group stores such as curry's is that they make very little money on the PC sales on average probably about seven quid all things considered. But if however they sell a PC Printer and then cables and ink this...
[December 6, 2007, 10:30]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Well, well doesn't history repeat itself yet again! Some of you may not remember the old days when Printers came with a Centronics (Paralell) Interfaces only and when IBM sold their humble IBM (Intel 8088) PC - "Yes Sir the IBM PC costs £1,500 - Oh...
[December 13, 2007, 10:44]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment In front of me is a retractable 75Cm USB cable. It has AM-BM for printer, AM-Mini 5P for cameras and MP3 players, AM-AF so that it can be used as an extension cable. It was expensive - 99p from my local 99p shop!
[December 11, 2007, 23:03]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Environmentally speaking, I prefer to source cables as need be, excessive mark up is wrong though. I have lots of USB cables, true that with new standards I may not look upon it so favourably. First gen should have cables included.
[December 13, 2007, 11:57]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment I know that I shouldn't laugh too loudly, but I have not seen a printer or scanner supplied with a USB cable since 1999. The fact that it's written on the box "USB Cable is NOT included" just maybe we need to start sending six year-olds in to buy...
[December 31, 2007, 0:35]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment The point thats really being made here is the steep price for the cable, and also it displays the minset of an average person buying a printer.
[January 3, 2008, 15:04]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Once again im going to stand by Andrew everyone who has been negative towards this blog entirely misses the point. And to Peter Judge of course they would have to include a cable otherwise average joe blogs would plug it into the wall open up word...
[January 29, 2008, 9:14]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Yes Your Right Lots Of Companies Are Like This Best Way To deal With Them IS NOT TO Go Where Customers Are Appreciated IF You Can Find Any They Are Getting Like Rocking Horse S**** England Business "MOTO" To Customers, = Rip them Off as Much As...
[January 30, 2008, 9:45]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment I'm just surprised you didn't have one knocking around at home already. Cables breed! I regularly have to harvest them and put a bag of cables on Freecycle, just to clear space on my desk. The ones I have most of are mini-USB cables from phones...
[January 8, 2008, 8:25]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Most of the PC World set don`t know how to shop around.They just buy the one with the shiniest box,whatever the price.
[January 8, 2008, 9:09]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Go to tesco the usb cables are only four or five quid any reasnobale sized one should do them. Hope thats helpfull
[December 5, 2007, 13:17]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment oh - and thanks to Chris too - who would have thought Tesco would be the consumer's friend ;-)
[December 5, 2007, 15:24]
