The markup on the cables is hilarious. My girlfriend works at best buy, and she bought a printer today (it was some cheap $40 thing just so she can print papers without running to the library while she's at school). It didn't come with a cable, and she picked up one that was $32. With her discount, she gets most things at cost + 5% or something like that, and the cable was $1.68 (the printer was a little over $16)