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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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    £3.99 is what I would call reasonable but I would have to register for PayPal, wait a few weeks for delivery and then have to return the Hugo Boss knock-off that they delivered instead :o)




    Perhaps, worth restricting the search to sellers in the UK if you want speedy delivery, and looking at what else that person sells, so if they only have 3 of the leads you want, and then lots of random clothing and nail varnish or other unconnected tat, you can assume they are just clearing stock ends of other companies and container sweepings  and have no idea what they are selling - Caveat Emptor.

    Someone with a wide range of electrical bits that is organised  more like a hardware shop with an on-line section is a safer bet. And if it is so cheap it is unbelievable, maybe it should not be believed.

    You can check out as a guest with PayPal, so no sign up needed and  they do not keep your details.
    UK Vendor with a UK adress  and the rest of that Ebay shop

    or go for a real vendor  CPC Farnell for example


    No connection to me except as a customer.

     


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    £3.99 is what I would call reasonable but I would have to register for PayPal, wait a few weeks for delivery and then have to return the Hugo Boss knock-off that they delivered instead :o)




    Perhaps, worth restricting the search to sellers in the UK if you want speedy delivery, and looking at what else that person sells, so if they only have 3 of the leads you want, and then lots of random clothing and nail varnish or other unconnected tat, you can assume they are just clearing stock ends of other companies and container sweepings  and have no idea what they are selling - Caveat Emptor.

    Someone with a wide range of electrical bits that is organised  more like a hardware shop with an on-line section is a safer bet. And if it is so cheap it is unbelievable, maybe it should not be believed.

    You can check out as a guest with PayPal, so no sign up needed and  they do not keep your details.
    UK Vendor with a UK adress  and the rest of that Ebay shop

    or go for a real vendor  CPC Farnell for example


    No connection to me except as a customer.

     


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