By Adam Pash, Lifehacker – August 16, 2010 at 02:00PM
When you buy cords or cables at places like Best Buy or the Apple Store, you normally pay a hefty price for the convenience. DeepSurplus sells nearly any cable you could want, generally for much less than more popular resources.
As a reader of the great-gadget site Cool Tools points out:
For example, Apple sells a mini to mini cable for connecting your iPod to your stereo for $24.95. The same cable can be had for less than a dollar from Deep Surplus.
The site’s also got extremely reasonable prices on other cables, like, for example, this 25-foot Ethernet cable for $5 (less if you’re buying more than one). You’re almost never going to find a good deal on cables at the likes of Apple, Best Buy, or other large retailers. Sometimes the convenience may be worth it, but for our part, we’d have to be pretty desperate to pay the extra $20+ for what should be a very inexpensive cable. (For what it’s worth, the specific cable mentioned at Cool Tools should also be easy to find at your local electronics store for anywhere between two to five bucks.)
UPDATE: As many, many commenters have pointed out, MonoPrice is another excellent option with often even better deals.