A mouse, including cable, costs about four bucks

[Orrex]

Why does a USB extension cable cost $13.99?

[Chan790]

1. Because they've got you by the balls.

It's not like you can splice your own USB cables. OTOH, you have other options qua buying a mouse. (wireless, PS/2)

[Orrex]

2. "Qua." Very nice!

And you're right about the other options.

But it's silly that a standard CPU-in-cabinet computer desk places the keyboard shelf at the very limit of a standard USB mouse's cable.

[From The Ashes]

3. When you find that out...

...find out for me who's bright Idea it was to put 1 IDE port on the motherboard I got recently. I'll be over here, still trying to figure out how to hook up 2 HDs and a dvd burner...x(

[DarkTirade]

4. Yeah, I bought a used camera at a pawn shop

and it didn't have the cable. I went online to look for it... the prices I found (other than going on eBay and buying one from Hong Kong) were between twenty and FIFTY dollars.

That's right. Fifty dollars. For a USB cable.

Screw that noise. I'll just go without.

[Orrex]

6. Yikes! You're better off buying a $9 card-reader

I bought a printer recently that, after rebate, was about $25 bucks. The cable for connecting it to my PC was $25.99.

Not to mention ink cartridges, which are famously expensive.


It's a gosh dang racket, I tells ya!

[DarkTirade]

7. That's exactly what I did.

Got two SD cards to switch out if I need to, and a USB card reader. I usually keep the bigger of the two cards (2 gigs) in the reader and keep it with me to use as a thumb drive, and I keep the smaller memory card (512 megs) in the camera.

[madinmaryland]

5. Because there are a brazilian mice out there!! Duhhhh!!!