Just went in to Dixons looking to buy a scart lead for a friend. Who the hell pays £69.99 for gold plated scart leads ?. Some people need to get a life and less money.
Dave
Just went in to Dixons looking to buy a scart lead for a friend. Who the hell pays £69.99 for gold plated scart leads ?. Some people need to get a life and less money.
Dave
In message , Dave Stanton wrote
Try CPC if you don't want to be ripped off
Just over £2 for a fully wired 1.5metre SCART to SCART with fully screened OFC flat cable. I find this the best I've used because it doesn't put strain on the connectors and it's easy to fold up to make it tidy.
CPC do many other SCART combinations including one where the whole of the connectors are gold plated for around a sixth of the price that Dixons want. Note: the prices on the CPC web site are excluding VAT
Order by credit card over the web today and the order will probably be with you by Tuesday.
Agree about CPC. Excellent site and stock. deliver promptly. Occasional poor packaging but they correct errors and damage quickly
Peter Scott
Indeed- same thing from CPC or Farnell or RS = 85pence upto about £10 (for the gold plated Oxygen free cabled ones)
Tim..
Oh yes I know, electronics tech this end, we use CPC all the time. It just amazed me that people will spend that sort of money on a bit of cable and 2 x very badly designed plugs. I got one from Woolies in the end for £5.99 as she needs the scart today.
Cheers
Dave
In article , Dave Stanton writes
I like mine soaked in prime quality snake oil for lubeing the electrons:)
LOL Nice one
Dave
You mena they're not rusty ? I should hope so too :-)
Wonder how many they sell ?
In message , tony sayer wrote
If you think the price of SCART leads is expensive at Dixons you don't want to know how much they charge for a 5ml bottle of snake oil.
In message , Dave Stanton writes
Look at CPC
Another vote here for CPC for most of your cable requirements.
The site is good but the printed catalogue is even better, over 2600 pages of light bedtime reading. And much easier to "flick through" to find what you're looking for.
Regards, Simon.
Cheapskate.
2m SCART only GBP21715 ft Mains lead only GBP 912.40
13A Mains socket (Treated with DeoxIT? Power Booster) only GBP19.958ft of speaker cable an absolute steal at only GBP 6,295.00 . Even
11ft will only set you back GBP8,435.00You really don't understand HiFi do you?
There should be a new version of the site on its way soon, which is better than the current one. The thing that tends to let them down I find however, is the quality of the data online is not always as good as the catalogue....
Wow! You have really opened my eyes. Makes me ashamed of my woefully inadequate home entertainment system.
This quote really sums it up for me: "Devoid of detrimental colour doping, KIMBER?s insulation improves the integrity of the mains current. "
I remember this company appearing in a blaze of publicity years ago. I gave them three months tops before they went bust. How on earth have they survived ?
Well, I personally know people who buy this stuff. I have to admit though - mains cables is a new one on me.
Whats all this SWR stuff? Is a few feet really going to make any difference to a wavelength of 4,500km? 'cause what 50Hz in a cable roughly works out to be.
You missed adding the earth terminal to bring the price up to a mere snip at =A324.95.
I think I'm in the wrong job. Just hunt out some pretty looking cable and odd looking mains plugs write a bit of wibble but don't really claim anything, build a website...
But the new 2005 catalogue you don't get for free anymore, at least I don't. I'll have to pay =A34.99 for it but if I spend over =A3100 in the= year that will be refunded. B-)
How many mains leads at 912.40 do you need to sell in a month to break even I wonder ;-)
... And when they send you something which someone has already sent back because it doesn't work
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