I just need to get a USB power supply (10W is probably plenty) with a 3 metre cable ending in a type C connector, for reasonable money and without going crawling back to bloody Amazon. It's just so hard to find stuff, for items like this where there's so many cheap crap versions of it around, that is likely to be of decent quality, without resorting to ludicrously expensive high-end-branded stuff. My usual method of avoiding Amazon is ebay but for this particular search it's full of so much questionable junk it's hard to find anything that's likely to be worth buying.
it's sad that we've gotten to this point really, equally it feels like decades later monopolistic behavior **is still** going unpunished.
I really try to avoid Amazon wherever I can, but that task seems to only get harder as each year passes..
If you need an idea for a decent brand, cablematters have always been good in my experience
@TheDragon π₯ I've successfully avoided Amazon since January 2020. It's not as convenient as getting everything very fast from one place but I've found plenty of other places to get things from.
I'm finding that just about any place that has a "marketplace", where third parties can sell their own stuff through what looks like a single vendor, seems to get stuffed with crap very quickly, some of which doesn't even exist and others are cheap rubbish. Sometimes they use tricks of the platform to make themselves look cheaper/better than they are, like for example I've been seeing stuff on ebay where there are options for size/colour/etc, they'll add something like a "SIM eject tool", about the cheapest tool possible, as one of the "size" options just so that they get listed first when you sort by price.
I can only imagine when they figure out how to use generative models to produce listings (or do a better job of it than now) we'll find ourselves even less able to actually locate anything worthwhile.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look. :)
yeah I totally get you, it's one of those things that's hard to not be constantly reminded of !!
Cable wise I just remembered another places I've used before - kenables, mostly for cat5e/6, but they stock other stuff too, and very much are D2C so maybe worth a bookmark! π