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I recently ordered ~$100 of cables from Monoprice and paid $20 for shipping (even though I have prime!) because I don’t trust Amazon. Really, Monoprice wins on

• techsupporter 8y ago
  > I recently ordered ~$100 of cables from Monoprice 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.)
  • clairity 8y ago
    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.
    • mtnGoat 8y ago
      this is true on amazon as well. $20 mouse cost me $8 to return.
  • hakfoo 8y ago
    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.