Even cable ordering is crazy now!

[Jan Janowski]

Need 70’ Ethernet cable. Pulled last of cat6 from box: 32’!
Don’t need box. But Prices!
Ordered from my goto: Monoprice.
Order lost. Tracking says ‘Packing’ but never updates. Day after delivery date Support can’t find it via tracking either. They will call shipping and ask. Nothing heard 3 days later!
In the meantime: Plan B: remnants without ends off eBay.
What transpires next is semantics!
Today CCA is being sold under other names not saying CCA. Even after search a CCA inadvertently ORDERED, then Cancelled.
FINALLY A 100’ remanent from Amazon. Higher $ than I wanted, but it’s correct - and now shipping!

Then today - day 8 of 2 day shipping - the wayward (now CC Disputed) Monoprice order arrived, with tracking info still saying “Bring Packed”! Called CC & Monoprice to straighten out - partial refund.

Betcha it’s a real chore being a parts orderer these days!
Now I’ll have 100’ cat6 as spare. (I tried to cheap out: use Cat5 cable from 2002 Olympics.. it opened up and resultant fiasco as occurred… Can’t win. )