My god, a dealer charged you that?
My local Lowe's sells it for $1.17 per
foot.
Was it SOOW or SEOOW (often cheaper but not as good for our purposes) or something else all together?
Pricing on copper has gone
thru the roof since the war. I have four main suppliers for it, some suppliers even
send me E-Mail warnings as to the next
stock market changes in what copper is going for - buy now. I also at times shop around to see who has what in
stock at yesterdays price rather than todays price in having to get it. Week to week prices change. Possible that the local hardware store in buying huge bulk and having it pre-cut in some warehouse is cheaper but mostly not due to their own markups.
On plugs and pre-fab cable, it is possible given the above copper prices that the pre-built cables were assembled at a time before prices went up to where they are now for raw from the spool cable. Pricing for cable assemblies than reflects that if normal lengths already in
stock.
There is one very important thing to consider when buying pre-built cable assemblies for
stage/slip pin. Are they using screw
terminal connectors or
crimp connectors? Often those making the cables pre-built are using
crimp type connectors that no doubt are faster in set up and better for standardization. (
Neutrik just came out with a
crimp on
line TBA my sample.)
While fine for quality wiring normally, these plugs than are one time only use. Get a cut in your cable and attempt to chop off say a
foot, you have to buy another
plug as the crimped one does not allow you to re-install the
wire onto it. Becomes a huge factor even with lighting fixtures where should there be a problem with the
whip or
socket, you now have to replace not just the
whip but the
plug. That's a bad thing.