[lug] Hilarious net cable market

[D. Stimits]

I just discovered that if one wants to buy network cable for cat 5e, 
that most of the retail stores are charging at least a 500% markup. 
Whereas Saunders sells it for $0.25/foot, and a few others around 
$0.20/foot, that a regular electrical supply shop (retail, but sells to 
contractors) is selling the same thing for less than $0.06/foot. The 
only problem is they sell 1000 feet minimum (the size of a box). This 
isn't so bad when you realize that to wire many houses you would want at 
least 150 feet, and it costs the same to buy that much at the retail 
stores as it does to buy 1000 feet at the electrical supply shop. 
Related hardware like connectors is about 1/3 of the price of the lower 
priced retail shops, I am amazed at how much profit is being made on 
network cables and related supplies like connectors and face plates.

If I pick up a 1000 foot roll, and use a couple hundred feet of it 
(solid core fastcat 5e), would anyone here be interested in buying the 
remainder at cost? Probably in a week or so.

D. Stimits, stimits AT idcomm.com