Let the chase begin

£17 for a cable?

Mmmmmm
Knowing my luck I go to asda and they'll be full price , I stay home and this will be 2000 degrees this time tomorrow

Good price considering its build quality. There are better aftermarket charger cables that are a bit more robust but they cost between £8-£13

Mmmmmm
Knowing my luck I go to asda and they'll be full price , I stay home and this will be 2000 degrees this time tomorrow

Good price considering its build quality. There are better aftermarket charger cables that are a bit more robust but they cost between £8-£13

Release! The! Geese!

Let the chase begin

Errrrrrmmmmmm .. zip-a-dee-doo-dah?, hehehe. :-)

£17 for a cable?

Do you have the barcode details for the cable?

Can provide you in morning as I am away for my night shift now :neutral_face:

Just did a price check in Asda Garthdee Aberdeen at the till and its £25 for 2m and £17 for 1m

Bargain, Apple want £25 for these in store. I'd have brought the lot. Mine always seem to go missing...

In govan even Asdas sell knockoff cables as "real offical honest guv" chinese knockoffs as legit :wink:

Theres been rumouring about that for 2-3 years now.

Checked asda Govan just mins ago. 2m is charging £25 and 0.5m £17 full price through tills.

Cheltenham Asda it's scanning at 0.99p for the 1m cable

That's great :sunglasses:

absolute bull

I can personally attest to PC World having a 5 metre heavy duty Lightning cable for £12. One of the IWantIt range. Obviously the PC World website isn't working right now (irony) so I can't post a link. I've had the cable for about a year now though and shows zero signs of wear.

A "lighting cable to headphone jack" would be worth £30 just for the pyrotechnics. If you are going to badmouth Apple at least get your spelling right.

Proper Irony or the Alanis Morisette version which is actual either just bad luck or bad timing?

This is a good deal if it exists and was not just a glitch in Glasgow. If I get a moment I'll check out the local Asda store.

Apple cables are ridiculously expensive (about £15), so I have been using one of the pastel coloured ones from Poundland/Poundworld for the past year with no problems whatsoever (see a previous post on HUKD).

Alan

For the guy that was looking for alternative good quality ones Anker for 5.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-PowerLine-Lightning-Premium-Certified/dp/B013JMBAMC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1461047436&sr=8-3&keywords=lightning+cables+anker

Ankers are very good quality, any problems whatsoever and they will replace.

However the poundland ones work fine, build quality isnt so good and certainly for android they dont seem to charge as quick.

Don't bother going to see if they have any in Asda Greenhithe, Gravesend or Swanley as I've been to each of them and they are all full price. As usual it's a wild goose chase!!!

I've not had any luck yet finding one. Tried all ASDA stores in Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Has anyone tried Stafford or Stoke on Trent yet?

It's cheap but you guys need to get out more. Go on amazon the Anker cables are the best all reinforced with Kevlar. Any colour you want and at different lengths.

Heat. Doubt I will find one at this price near me.

Yup £25 here in nottm!! Must be two barcodes or local deal to get people in. Are ASDA starting to play the hot deals game too?! Lol

i bought one from Tiger for 30DKK (~3 GBP) in CPH. 1M and very strudy.. you can check in uk shops..

1 in pound land

I would say proper irony seeing as a computer shop has a broken website. Anyway, the website is working now so I have a link. Bad news is that I can't measure - it's 3m, not 5m. My bad. http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/apple-accessories/apple-accessories/iwantit-iln3c13x-usb-to-8-pin-lightning-cable-3-m-20745419-pdt.html

just 4 miles from my home - tempted to get there :smiley:

Probably get dismissed on here because of the price but these are a great buy for people who are after quaintly and a longer cable: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tech-Armor-Lightning-Cable-Tough-Braided/dp/B00EH8EG7Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1461059581&sr=1-1&keywords=Tech+Armor+Premium+Apple+Certified+Braided+Lightning+cable

From personal experience, i've found this to be more reliable and sturdy than the apple own product: https://www.amazon.co.uk/AmazonBasics-Apple-Certified-Lightning-Cable/dp/B010S9M3L6/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1461061711&sr=8-5&keywords=ipod+lightning+cable

Great at this price I can afford to buy one for my Android 'phone.

Tech Armor is very good. Not cheap but much more robust than Apple cables. I have had one for years and treat it like crap, still going strong. Lifetime warranty.

found my receipt when i purchased my nokia 3310. £150 bloody hell

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Sorry Noxia this has completely gone over my head, can you explain what I did? If it was a joke then I can only apologise again

Cnt find them on the site

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I know, it is shocking really when you think of it like that.

Only just better than a fake poundland special. Buy a decent aftermarket one on Amazon with a warranty.

Having said that, it's a good price considering the normal selling price of these..

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I can only go by what I do, whereas others might have other recommendations or chime in with better options.
What I did was do a search on threads for this in the past and see what people have recommended and look carefully at the ones people say have been not very good. Sometimes I wait for these items to become available on special offer as they can be quite pricey at their normal price.

I have a household of 5 each with their own idevice that needs a lightning cable - we only buy the longer ones, and go for ones that look like they may last longer because my wife and the children seem to like to have the cable bent right where it joins the plug, which can leed to problems.
I no longer buy the cheep ones from Poundland, etc, or China, and I look out for the MFI logo which means it contains the ludicrous apple authentication chip inside. I'm probably going to miss out a couple as I am just browsing through my amazon order history on the term 'lightning'. The longer ones I have bough that seem to be more robust than the standard ones that come with the device are:
Do a search for Lidl 1.5m cables. £4.99 when they become available during the course of the year. Aldi no doubt are also doing the same thing now.
AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB cable 1.8m. £7.29 from Amazon. They have had a few tweaks and improvements in the last couple of years. Like the Lidl ones, they are immediately more robust build quality than the Apple ones and to tend to last longer. Reviews mainly very favourable, though if they break you can get them replaced easily under warranty.
TeckNet (Apple MFI Certifield) 2.0M Apple Lightning to USB Cable. £6.29 on Amazon and come with an 18 month warranty.
Anker PowerLine 6ft Apple MFi Certified Lightning to USB Cable Sturdy Charging Cord £7.99 at Amazon with an 18 month warranty.

I haven't bought a new lightning cable for a little while so posts on here in recent months may give you more up to date information as to ones to look out for. Hope this gives you a good start :smiley:

Serious? Wow that's bad. Maybe the iPhone 7 would be super thin, thinner than the diameter of the headphone jack.

I bought this yesterday on ebay.... by mistake. Trying to get something for an iPad, this came up... bought it (for about a fiver) then realised it wasn't for iPad. D'oh!! Good price if this is what you want (and you're not a twit like me!)

No proof of this deal. Admin allows this deal.. :smirk:

They are excellent but the lifetime warranty means nothing if you read it. Though for marketing purposes it serves it's purpose.

"if Tech Armor determines that the Tech Armor product has been improperly installed, altered in any way or tampered with. This limited warranty does not protect against acts of God such as flood, earthquake, war, vandalism, theft, normal-use wear and tear,"

Normal wear and tear :confused: what else is going to go wrong with it that they can't consider wear and tear?

Jealous?? What am i going to get out off this? :smirk:

Why would you pay for it then if Apple will give you new one free of charge?

This cable costs twice as much as brand new phone with colour screen, camera, bluetooth and mp3 player. It's a joke.

to have more than one cable? I have a cable at work, one next to bed, one in car, one in bag for travelling etc. etc. You can't compare a charging cable to a dumbphone, completely different uses and products. That's like saying £10 for a box of nappies?! I can get a 14" pizza for less than half that! bizarre statement.

True, but you need to be within the warranty of the product the cable was supplied with. Only managed to get mine changed because it was still covered by my 1 year IPhone warranty. Headphones are included in this too - had them changed a couple times too.

Pizzas and nappies are different products. Cables and phones come out of the same factory. Phones are far more costly and complex to design and manufacture than 1m of wire wrapped in rubber.

If anything here is dumb it's going to be paying £17 for a cable, no matter how hard you're trying to convince yourself you spent it wisely.

I've been using poundland cables on 5 and 5S with latest iOS.
People keep telling me that they don't work, but they are telling lies because I've been using them for years and they outlasted the cable that came with the phone.

£1.97 for a real one can only be hot.

Okay price I suppose

I noticed Poundland now sell a 2m Lightning to USB cable for Apple devices. Bought one so we have an extra one for the car. Guess what, had a problem with the charging with some message in my phone. I would have posted the deal on here otherwise - I mean - a 2m Lightning to USB cable for a pound! One not try one and see how you get on - perhaps post the deal on here if you can hand on heart recommend it as I am sure it will be a very hot deal.

By the way, do people really lie to you about how good stupid cables are? I don't have shares in any of the brands of cable makers or the shops that sell them.

Scanning at £17 in Shipley. Cold.

Scanning at £25 at Fleetwood Asda :disappointed:

How is this so hot? Craziness I tell you!!

A lot of cheap lightning to USB cables don't pass/convert digital audio through them, they just charge & sync data.
So at this price the original Apple lead would be a bargain. Only thing is, it's probably only at 1 or 2 stores around the country, so can't really vote hot for this.

cables and phones come out of the same factory?! since when. There not one big "electronics factory" that anything remotely related come from. Cables can be manufactured anywhere, phones have components mostly manufactured in china but could be assembled anywhere also.
As for costs, if those products started life at the same time sure, a cable should and would be cheaper - whatever phone you are referring to is clearly built using off the shelf tech from 10+ years ago - the same spec phone when newly released would have cost in the hundreds easily. The lightning cable is fairly recent and a proprietary design which up until recently wasn't able to be reverse engineered - hence why so many cheap cables fail or show error messages when plugged in. The R&D and licensing costs are factored into new tech like this which is why it costs more than a micro-usb cable for example. Similar to why a proprietary Sony memory card costs 10x more than a standard sd card.

and as I said originally, I didn't and wouldn't buy one at £17 (so I'm not convincing myself of anything) - and in fact this "deal" is only for £1.97 so I don't understand your rant at all. You'd be lucky to find a decent knock-off lightning cable that worked well for this price, let alone an official apple cable with warranty.

OMG, the "cold" button is broken on this page caz I clicked it so many times.

I have several £1 shop ones and the two metre ones are great. I've had problems in the past but none for the last few months. And if there is they will replace it or they have to refund if faulty.

Most need need receipts now as they know from their packaging what is their product

That's what some of the rumours suggest.

Probably get troll'd, but is a lightning cable any better than the £1 cable at Poundland?

900 degrees and one person found them at Asda (with no receipt :smirk: )

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I actually had a receipt but could not be bothered to take it back as it is a Poundland from another town (we don't have one here). I will certainly have another go next time I see one on your feedback. What device was it connected to?

Cheer up mate, everyone is here to save some money. Why I would even think to be nasty to post a scam. It was original buy COULD BE A PROBLEM with Asda's own system. But I bought 5 you trust me or not :smile:

£25 at 3 stores, most probably a old barcode.

Bought the same cable from Poundland for the bedside. It's now residing in a drawer as it broke about a week - the Lightning terminal itself went all wobbly.

Can't believe Apple charge £15 for a 1 metre Lightning cable. You wouldn't catch Samsung ripping people off with cables would you

3m is the maximum length specified in the "Made for IPhone" technical design guides. I wouldn't ever buy anything for an iOS device unless it has the MFI stamp which says it has been tested to a benchmark quality. Belkin, griffin etc all use MFI standards.

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Oh, so maybe it's not just me then! On the face of it a proper bargain, I mean £1 for 2m Lightning cable, but maybe like me others didn't post because hand on heart why would you recommend it

Scanning at £25 at my local asda cheers

Haha someone else has a pet peeve like me. The word has recently taken on a whole new meaning in parts of England? It is spelled BOUGHT, I BOUGHT a packet of crisps. I BROUGHT those crisps home. Brought is to bring. Bought is to buy something.

​didn't mean to click like, oooops

£25 in Asda Dumbarton

It was an unhelpful comment as I didn't take the time to link. What I meant is there are far sturdier than standard cables for less than you quoted. The LP ones being my personal favourite. The length and colour are factors in the price but really you're not too far out as they can range from about £4 - £10.

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Ok that makes sense. I trying to point out that you can get cheaper and better that £17 apple effort. Later in the thread I gave 4 examples with prices that I could personally endorse, ranging from £4.99 to £6.99. When the time comes I will look into LP which I have not heard of before