Amazon - how do they do it !

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Just ordered a 10m Stereo lead with connections to carry sound from my laptop to tv - cost £2.37p including delivery - all excellent reviews :D :D


How can make a profit on this - the post alone must be nearly this !
 
Is it actually Amazon selling the product, or a 3rd party using them as a storefront?
 
Or the £1.70 for the iPhone car charger including lead and jiffy bag and first class posting. No idea on that one either ...
 
Check iPhone leads have chip. Couple of mine from Amazin don't and are useless for ios7. Another only works if you plug in twice. :(


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Yes, all works ok. Only using it in the Polo as that is the only car without a charging iPod connection build int.

I have an iPhone 4 remember, might be different from the 5.
 
I did some reading up on iPhone / iPad leads as I want some 2-3m ones. Apparently the really cheap ones can be made of very thin wire inside, so they take a very long time to charge anything, or have no chip, or are very badly made and can melt where the wire connects with the charging fitting. Or the charging fitting itself falls apart in short order... Trouble is, 'proper' ones are £20-30 each :cry:
 
I have bought some crappy ones that fail after a few weeks. Best I have found is genuine ones split from proper apple kit (legit... not sure?). Those are approx half of retail but work well.

I have just ordered a braided cable off ebay that says it works with IOS 7.0.4 so we'll see if it does or not (hopefully tomorrow)
 
pvr said:
Yes, all works ok. Only using it in the Polo as that is the only car without a charging iPod connection build int.

I have an iPhone 4 remember, might be different from the 5.
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I never had any issues on iPhone 4 or earlier OS. These are all specific to iPhone 5 on IOS7 where at the change of connector style and OS Apple took the opportunity to add control to the cables used. Happy to have an use quality leads, but I think the changes caught the aftermarket guys out.

I'm sure it's only 1 small step next for Apple to remove the ability to use or connect anything they don't approve.
 
Agreed, I did hear that from others that non approved cables would not work for iPhone 5.

I am still the cheapskate with my iPhone 4 that works everywhere, has better signal then the iPhone 5 :) everyone else in the household has 5 or 5s, but often I am the only one with signal ....
 
pvr said:
Agreed, I did hear that from others that non approved cables would not work for iPhone 5.

I am still the cheapskate with my iPhone 4 that works everywhere, has better signal then the iPhone 5 :) everyone else in the household has 5 or 5s, but often I am the only one with signal ....
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Can't comment on the signal issue as I took the opportunity to move from Vodafone to EE when changing phones. Not only were they first with 4G that I wanted, but had much better reception locally than Vodafone. Took the entire family and contracts across in one go and just running off the odd device like mobile modems.
 
I've had about 5 iphone 5 cables over the past year... All of them have stopped working/ only charge the phone to 87%.

I could have bought a genuine cable with the amount i wasted on them :(


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Here's how!

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ed6a985c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144feab49a.html

I work in retail IT and, to be fair, Amazon set the industry benchmark in many areas, most of which don't make you feel as uneasy as their warehouse management practices.
 
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