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16 minutes ago, Andrewf said:

Makes sense. At any rate, thoughts on these cables? Seems to be very cheap for the quantity. Should I not be surprised if half of them stop working or get all squirrely after a while?

 

The cables are cheap for a reason.

 

I bought a few braided powerline+ Anker lightning cables years ago. 3 cables, many thousands of charges, all cables still work great. Never had a single issue with any of them. They have long outlasted the Apple branded cables I started with.

 

I cannot, in good conscience, recommend anything else but Anker.

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Looks like someone messed up the webpage's code and it's pulling reviews from Book of Eli movie rather than the product... just silly mistake

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1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Looks like someone messed up the webpage's code and it's pulling reviews from Book of Eli movie rather than the product... just silly mistake

Well I chose these thinking the reviews were 4.5 stars with over 2k reviews... if they turn out to be junk I'm demanding my money back.

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I see this on a lot of stuff. Seems to be a glitch they have that applies both positive and negative reviews from random items to an unrelated item.

 

you are not going crazy.

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1 minute ago, dDave64 said:

I see this on a lot of stuff. Seems to be a glitch they have that applies both positive and negative reviews from random items to an unrelated item.

 

you are not going crazy.

Makes sense. At any rate, thoughts on these cables? Seems to be very cheap for the quantity. Should I not be surprised if half of them stop working or get all squirrely after a while?

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13 minutes ago, Andrewf said:

Makes sense. At any rate, thoughts on these cables? Seems to be very cheap for the quantity. Should I not be surprised if half of them stop working or get all squirrely after a while?

I wouldn't buy those.

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20 minutes ago, Andrewf said:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PQCHVTJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

I'm not sure why but I don't think these reviews are accurate....

 

Am I the only one seeing this?

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16 minutes ago, Andrewf said:

Makes sense. At any rate, thoughts on these cables? Seems to be very cheap for the quantity. Should I not be surprised if half of them stop working or get all squirrely after a while?

 

The cables are cheap for a reason.

 

I bought a few braided powerline+ Anker lightning cables years ago. 3 cables, many thousands of charges, all cables still work great. Never had a single issue with any of them. They have long outlasted the Apple branded cables I started with.

 

I cannot, in good conscience, recommend anything else but Anker.

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They had another product there, looks like a movie or something, and swapped it out for a cable. 
Click see all X reviews, then choose this dropdown
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there's no style options, this is just the default

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You'll see there's not reviews for this actual product. 
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