Re: Thousands of stores to disappear in '09

On Jan 2, 8:58 pm, El Castor <No_...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:05:08 -0800 (PST), mg <mgkel...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



On Jan 1, 5:00 pm, Rumpelstiltskin
<PleaseDoNotReplyByEm...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 15:27:16 -0800 (PST), "rick++"

<rick...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've always wondered who shops at the
hundreds of stores I drive by every week.
I might go to three of them.

I feel like I'm starting an Andy Rooney
monologue here.

   I stopped in at the local Radio Shack, to see if they
had any of the Magic Jack telephone hookups to one's
computer, but I didn't see any and didn't want to ask.
I did notice the USB cables going for $20 and $30,
one of which a friend bought there lately when he got
a new printer that didn't come with a cable.  He said
it cost nearly as much as the printer he got.  I noticed
the other day at Office Depot that they cost about the
same there too.  I don't have any USB devices yet
except for my digital camera (which has its own cable),
but I'll be getting some soon, no doubt.  I just ordered
four for about $15 total, including shipping: three ten-foot
ones and one six-foot one.  They were about $2 each,
which is all they should cost in my uninformed opinion,
and the shipping was $7.50 whether I ordered one or
four, which is good - I like that.  They haven't arrived
yet so I can't say much about them, but this is the site:https://www.cablesforless.com/

I've been ordering cables like that off the internet (or eBay) for
years and like you, I always get extras because they're so cheap and
you have to pay the shipping anyway. I've never had any problem with
any of them. Sometimes I'll have a friend or relative that needs a
cable and I'll just give it to them. Then a lot of times they'll say
something like, "Do you know what those things cost?", and I'll say,
"Yah, 2 or 3 dollars on the internet.  :-)

Same thing with speaker cables. You can pay $100 a foot for silver, or
just go down to the hardware store and buy 12 gauge lamp cord.

.. . . and you don't necessarily even need 12 gauge unless you have a
very long run. I do treat myself to the small luxury of putting banana
plugs on one end, but I buy the kind you have to soldier and they only
cost about $.25 each, as I recall. I used to put those little pin
connectors on the other end for the speakers, but I got lazy in my old
age.



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