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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 Yes Your Right Lots Of Companies Are Like This Best Way To deal With Them IS NOT TO
[January 30, 2008, 9:45]
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 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 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 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 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 28, 2008, 16:20]
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 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, 10:44]
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, 15:32]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment HP's experience is that there is no one cable suitable for all customer requirements and that many customers already have a cable that they wish to use, in addition the inclusion of a cable would also incur costs which would reduce HPs ability to...
[December 12, 2007, 8:51]
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 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 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, 9:24]
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 oh - and thanks to Chris too - who would have thought Tesco would be the consumer's friend ;-)
[December 5, 2007, 15:24]
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 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, 14:29]
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 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]
