Is it unusual to have that severe an issue with a power cable? I thought the whole point of going direct to the manufacturer or someplace less shady than Amazo

Is it unusual to have that severe an issue with a power cable? I thought the whole point of going direct to the manufacturer or someplace less shady than Amazon like Monoprice. (I haven't ordered from them in a while, but while they don't ship as fast as Amazon I never had a failure, versus Amazon constantly selling me shit that breaks, then demanding I go print a shipping label and send them their less than twenty dollar hunk of whatever -- it felt like a very purposeful strategy to exhaust folks who were more than willing to do some research. Then again, I have an uneasy alliance with "the gamers" since I switched to being a film snob in 2009 -- that's why they took out all the payphones -- it's a long story, but apparently someone formally complained to the FBI that I said they should ring the Vatican with Italian tanks and start shelling if they don't join NATO and pay the victims, so they're putting off legalizing Jenkem and taxing it for revenue for another 69 or so years.)