what to do with surplus cables?

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Thuleman

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Anyone have an idea how to put surplus cables to good use? I have a bunch of power supply cables (outlet to psu ones), 2 channel audio, s-video that come with vga cards, phone cords, etc.

I did offer them at a garage sales this summer for around 25 cents each, but only few sold.

Next stop: Landfill?
 
hang on to em, you never know when you might need em
 
If you had like SCSI cables or something like that, I'd say Ebay them (I've done 50-pin SCSI cable auctions, $.99 BIN, several sold) - but what you have is pretty much useless as far as selling. Either keep them in a bin somewhere or give them away. Please don't throw them away if they're still usable. Didn't they ever teach you the 3 R's in school? ;)
 
dandragonrage said:
Please don't throw them away if they're still usable. Didn't they ever teach you the 3 R's in school? ;)
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Heh, actually they didn't.
I have over a dozen PSU ones, close to a dozen 2-channel audio and phone cords, and somewhere between half a dozen and a dozen USB/Firewire/ATA100 IDE/S-Video/Misc cables.

I wouldn't mind giving them away to people who would actually use them, but those kind of people seem to be hard to find. Tech savy ppl tend to already have everthing they need, and noobs have no idea what it is they need if anything.

Ebaying 99 cent stuff is just not worth my time to be honest, between listing fee, auction fee, paypal fee, me packing the stuff up and mailing it, I am gettling like half a cent out of it. Though one could argue that I am doing a good deed. But as you said, the stuff I have is pretty much worthless.
 
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hang on to em, you never know when you might need em
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Agreed.

I threw out a lot of old cables and sundry hardware (soundblaster 16s, aold network adapters etc.) that I thought I'd never need, and every now and then something unforseen turns up and I keep kicking myself for doing that...

Besides, considering how much most places overcharge for cables I would keep them. They are worth their weight in gold.

Best Buy, Radioshack etc. they all charge ridiculous prices. I once went to get a 12ft S-Video cable and they wanted $16 for it. I was expecting it to cost abour $3 - $4...

Usually the only places that have reasonable cable prices are your 3rd party small corner computer stores, but there are fewer and fewer of those these days as they are being put out of business by the evil national chains...
 
I will make a list of what I have by the end of the week and post it to the FS forum, it will pretty much be free+shipping for most of them.
 
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