Don't read you'll be sorry

...and they look like real! You've just eliminated possibility to sell them used coz quite a few people will know that they're fake.

Mapman, now you're more jeopardised to get fake if you buy used. Watch out for pricey wires sold as lightly used or open box. The higher wire priced the more intention exists to manufacture fake. Buy new and cheap wires from Best Buy or pro audio stores. Most of them not any worse than ones for thousands bucks. That will drive most of the high-end wire market way down.

In reality cable replicas are the simpliest thing to replicate. No matter how many figures they worth, IT'S JUST A WIRE! What could be wrong with cables even if they're fake? Won't they have the same continuity test or even per-unit resistance/impedance? Even ones original would suffer difference to some magnitude one to each-other so you simply can't distinguish where is which one unless you know the true source of purchase. Now do the math and querry all hifi brands from DHGate and match them against ones sold in here HOW YOU ARE ASSURED THAT YOU'RE NOT BUYING FAKE? CAN YOU PROVIDE YOUR METHODS OF ANALYSIS???
The cables at DHGate sold at fraction of the price vs. original and even if you will resell cables at 50% off you'll still profit substantially from each re-sale like that. All you have to do is just unpack it, make some marks and signs of usage and sell them used!

So don't be sorry, just OPEN YOUR EYES. Wheather the feedback from DHGate positive or negative those who need to have an income will find ways to get product and to find supplier that does great job, great shipping, the one that accepts credit card or paypal and will establish line of business coz cable differences found MOSTLY in the way they look to naive consumer so I suggest to excersise more with your "listening tests" LOL!.

You may have different opinions such as "An individual can have a right to purchase $10,000 speaker cable", but for the manufacturer producing one I'd say there's a way to make it the same but much cheaper let's say for $500... What I would say simply SO BE IT! It's pure physics where every current shall see the load resistance and it's quite natural alais of any laws, regulations or Divine American Dignity. Do you think that genuine cable companies are fair to you as consumers? I think totally different. THEY ARE NOT and they all think that you are DUMB enough to purchase $10,000 pair of cables coz you have late model BMW and $80,000 speakers.

So check out how many pages you find at DHGate or Alibaba listings that sell any famous brand you can think off and see these prices and stop blaming happy OP that purchased brand new $3000 cable for fraction of price, coz actually he deserves to be happy if you think deep.

Roxy,
1. JPS cables I used to have aren't expensive even if purchased brand new.
2. Sold them and number of higher priced interconnects long time ago to save for music and better preamp
3. Let Mr. Honorable Paul_Graham be the Ultimate Judge on who's an idiot OK.
4. Valid point of an idiot is still a valid point. FACT.

And finally my schlong-blocking post is intended for community not to get banged by ones who's much smarter and probably should be more or less appreciated COZ I do intend to advocate consumer and its rights rather than throw arguments or insults(as others might prefer).

Jp, Pb... I guess they're all made there especially tubing and terminating equipment that is being used by vast majority of US manufacturers. Buy one for yourself and you're good to manufacture any wire you wish to make. Fake will look and sound SAME and that's the bottom line as long as you know what they're made of weather it's legal, not legal to manufacture or purchase, fair, not fair they're competitors now and there are reasons, facts and 'COZes' I've described above.
It's just wires and our beloved US manufacturers may deeply go down on prices of their 'gimmemomani' branded products.

Kijanki,
It was mentioned that DHGate isn't a distributor but just provider of market for multiple sellers. You never know if they're authorized to sell AQ or any kind of cables, but the bottom line is THEY ARE A LOT CHEAPER and look and sound like real. Who cares if consumer is HAPPY?

...and after all nice business opportunity to all readers isn't it?

Gotta appreciate Placebo that makes some people very rich due to audiophiles who read Stereophile.

Gotta ask profet Mr Fremer what he would think about that LOL!

Gotta raise my both hands to appreciate Tycomb for posting and presenting learning resources for naive and rich 'goners.

And finally, don't know where Peter had ID'd authenticity, but it's really not the point. The point is that hopefully we all see wire prices will go down quite a-bit.

Scott,
Very good idea!
I #1 vote that it's best cable thread on 'Gon

Who's next?

The point is that if it realy looks like Rockefeller it will sound like one too. No matter how righteous you are, you can't and won't stop this market.

Technically you can get them for free from dhgate by cancelling payment once the item is shipped or received. That may cause substantial depletion of credit card accepting sellers there. After you do that you shouldn't really care what's comming after you...

Have FBI agent tap your phone and they'll be tracked. Most-likely they just mask with US area codes but initiate calls from there. I had an agent track one from philipines with NV mask.