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I think I picked the cheapest vendor on ebay, TWICE. Tracking on first showed delivery to my front porch on a day when I was home all day working next to the front porch, no idea what happened to it, but found nothing on porch or neighbors, and had never had prior issues. Second one less drama, played with it a few days, technically worked as advertised, but turn out most of my digital device draw power in some fashion closer to pulses so while the display is showing all those nice expensive to acquire digits, they change so much from sample to sample to be useless. Bluetooth was fun, worked fine with my LG phone, the old $3 USB doctor is back in use and the fancy one in its box waiting a purpose.

The details of cable testing didn’t seem all that practical vs buying some “known” good cables and stop using any questionable ones. Some cables I am sure are not very good, but I’ve had more issues with devices and chargers and its hard to decide if adding a meter to mix helps find the issue or adds a new variable.