My trouble with Anker cables is I'm not able to buy them in a reasonable way. If I go on Amazon, most of their products "do not ship to your location (Europe)". For the few that do, Amazon wants to charge me $16 in "import tax deposit" (when the item cost is way below the threshold for import tax) plus $15 for the cheapest shipping. That's on a cable costing $4.99.

This is a major beef I have with Amazon in general, and the reason I almost never buy stuff there. Most stuff I want doesn't ship to my location, there's no way to filter out unavailable items from search, and shipping is usually horribly expensive. When AliExpress offers a better experience, your ecommerce store has some serious issues...

Now, I can go on eBay and get an Anker cable more reasonably priced, but then it's 85% likely I'm getting a Chinese knockoff. Then I might as well buy 10 straight-outta-Guangzhou $0.99 cables and get 1 that works well for a year. Which is what I do now.

Does anyone know a quality yet reasonably priced micro usb cable brand available in Europe/Scandinavia?