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My trouble with Anker cables is I'm not able to buy them in a reasonable way. If I go on Amazon, most of their products "do not ship to your location (Europe)". For the few that do, Amazon wants to charge me $16 in "import tax deposit" (when the item cost is way below the threshold for import tax) plus $15 for the cheapest shipping. That's on a cable costing $4.99.

This is a major beef I have with Amazon in general, and the reason I almost never buy stuff there. Most stuff I want doesn't ship to my location, there's no way to filter out unavailable items from search, and shipping is usually horribly expensive. When AliExpress offers a better experience, your ecommerce store has some serious issues...

Now, I can go on eBay and get an Anker cable more reasonably priced, but then it's 85% likely I'm getting a Chinese knockoff. Then I might as well buy 10 straight-outta-Guangzhou $0.99 cables and get 1 that works well for a year. Which is what I do now.

Does anyone know a quality yet reasonably priced micro usb cable brand available in Europe/Scandinavia?



I often bought Anker chargers and cables while traveling in the US and brought it back home to Norway - even had them replace or refund broken stuff for me a couple of times (excellent customer service!)

Wanted to buy a new car charger recently, and got really annoyed at how difficult it was to find someone who would ship to Norway without breaking the bank on shipping or risking a fake item.

Then I discovered their official AliExpress store - https://anker.aliexpress.com/store/1710553

They won't ship batteries to Scandinavia - but chargers and cables are fair game, and decently priced. All original stuff.


Thanks for the tip! Just ordered a cable to try them out, $6.99 and free shipping is more like it.


Anker's website states that they have distribution in Belgium and Germany, and they have a UK contact number. They must be available through some other stores over there, somewhere.


Have you tried amazon.co.uk and amazon.de?


Try buying Anker stuff on ebay?




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