Cable-tidy wire?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Prick bag?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Cheaper on ebay and I've no doubt yer local haberdashery has it cheaper, too.

[Lobster]

I did wonder... !

[SteveW]

A small screwdriver (or indeed the tip of your Stanley knife blade) slipped under the latch will release them without the dangers of cutting them.

SteveW

[Alaric]

You know how when you buy any electrical appliance, the flex will be neatly bundled together and secured with a short length of plastic-coated wire, with its ends twisted together?

I have box-fulls of old wall-warts, miscellaneous connectors and cables which I'd like to tidy up a bit (so I can see what I've got), and would like to get hold of a small reel of that stuff to do it with.

I'm sure it will be available cheaply on ebay, for example, but what do you call it? All permutations of cable/tidy/wire/flex etc are bringing up a million items, but not what I want...

Thanks

[Frank Erskine]

An angle grinder will open 'em.

[Lobster]

Was amused today to receive the following ebay missive from the Hong Kong seller of the above item:

"Regarding to your item: 50M Universal Tie Wire Twist Strapping Tape Kitchen Thin String Gardening Green

We are excited to inform you that our Mr. Pigeon has started off and covered 25% of its journey. As stated in our auction, the shipment will take about 10-25 days during the delivery. Please be patient and wait for the arrival of your lovely item..."

Thanks Mr Pigeon, I'm waiting here in pants-wetting excitment...

David

[Owain]

Let us know if you think it's lovely when it arrives.

Owain

[djc]

Carrier Pigeon? How do they pack the '50M Universal...' into those little leg cannister things?

[Lobster]

[snip]

And bizarrely, I've just received another identically-worded message from an entirely different Chinese seller, for an entirely different item!

Just googled; and the wording crops up all over the place; eg a blog post from 2008:

it must be some weird stock wording built into ebay.cn or something??