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Pricey UPS Accessories

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Hi there,


Long-time reader here posting for the first time. I quite enjoyed the discussion about audiophile fuses and while this isn't anywhere as ridiculous something seems off about the price of UPS power accessories.


I have just purchased a UPS for my home office having suffered some hard-drive damage from frequent 'brownouts'. This is an APC 1400va - 700 Watt with 6 x IEC C13 outputs at the back, enough to get me over the brief outages unscathed. As some of the devices being attached have a transformer I need a short extension from an IEC C14 to a BS 1363 Socket. So far so good and some air between the UPS and transformer is helpful.


I found them online at about £40 each which seems excessive when the component parts are readily available at a fraction of that cost. For example: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/power-distribution-accessories/7794159/ Other UPS power accessories have similarly questionable markup.


My question is, can you folks see any reason why such a simple accessory is so expensive? For the life of me, I can't, so for the price of one of these, I plan to buy the parts to make six.


Now, I'm off to use the saving to buy a gold-plated plug for my stereo!


Neil





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    mapj1:

    Quite a while ago I worked at a place where we reckoned that to book an empty cardboard box into stores, label it and keep it on inventory for a week, then wrap it up and post it out unaltered, would have been about £50.




    Sometimes RS (remember the yellow packets with the orange/brown writing?) seems very expensive; sometimes it is very competitive. My last order from them was some Duraplugs.


    What I cannot understand is the "free" delivery, which seems to bear little relationship to the cost of the order. And it always comes next day (Royal Mail) between 09:00 and 09:30. I asked postie whether it was the next order after 09:00 guaranteed, but that is not the case. I do not think that any supplier could do any better. ?


    And if I really was in a rush, I could collect from Hedge End (but petrol would be more than the "postage") though in fact the orders come from the Midlands.

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    mapj1:

    Quite a while ago I worked at a place where we reckoned that to book an empty cardboard box into stores, label it and keep it on inventory for a week, then wrap it up and post it out unaltered, would have been about £50.




    Sometimes RS (remember the yellow packets with the orange/brown writing?) seems very expensive; sometimes it is very competitive. My last order from them was some Duraplugs.


    What I cannot understand is the "free" delivery, which seems to bear little relationship to the cost of the order. And it always comes next day (Royal Mail) between 09:00 and 09:30. I asked postie whether it was the next order after 09:00 guaranteed, but that is not the case. I do not think that any supplier could do any better. ?


    And if I really was in a rush, I could collect from Hedge End (but petrol would be more than the "postage") though in fact the orders come from the Midlands.

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