Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Matrix Printers were the de facto standard and required a Centronics Cable which was extra of course with prices ranging from £32 to £26 provided by the forerunners of the now Corporate Hardware Supply Chains.
[December 13, 2007, 11:22]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment 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. The response covers why the USB cable wasn't included - i.e.it was HP's fault...
[December 12, 2007, 15:39]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment The policy to not include a USB cable with its printers is in line with standard practice of the majority of major IT manufacturers in the UK; to ensure customers know exactly what they are purchasing the printer box contents are clearly...
[December 12, 2007, 9:28]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment In front of me is a retractable 75Cm USB cable. Prices aside, I have found some USB devices won't work with some USB cables - and it not always the cheapest ones. It has AM-BM for printer, AM-Mini 5P for cameras and MP3 players, AM-AF so that it...
[December 12, 2007, 9:23]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Still, £17 for a USB cable takes the biscuit. 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...
[December 6, 2007, 12:19]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment England Business "MOTO" To Customers, = Rip them Off as Much As Possible So Why the Rip Off By These Companies so Why Does These Companies Rip You Off Ethernet & 1 USB, And As far as the Comments, Re, Centronics , Just Think we Used To Make...
[January 30, 2008, 12:21]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment If I buy a device I expect it to have all the components I need included - printers come with ink cartridges so why not the cable you need to connect the device to your machine? But even if we agree that people should read boxes - the blog was...
[January 29, 2008, 9:19]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment 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 press print and wonder why it didn't work, so its to cover themselves in that scenario.
[January 29, 2008, 9:14]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment The ones I have most of are mini-USB cables from phones, MP3s and gadgets, though there's now three sizes of plug there.it is absolutely true that USB cables are normally not included with printers, but I seem to have two of those.
[January 8, 2008, 8:39]
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 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 I bought a F2100 All-in-One printer, scanner and copier from PC World last weekend - and found out when I went to set it up that HP had kindly decided not to include everything I needed in the box - there was no USB cable to connect the printer to...
[December 5, 2007, 12:17]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment The worst cable has to be PCWorlds £14.99 USB 1.1 Cable that was a rip off, they only stopped that recently. 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...
[December 6, 2007, 10:30]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment What I am confused about is that you went to Curry's for the cable and are surprised at the rip off price! Printer manufactures started cutting out the USB cable form their printers for a while now to save on costs.
[December 5, 2007, 14:35]
