Anker offers lovely soft silicone sheathed USB-C cables, in black or white and many lengths. They perform for data and do not get stiff or discolor. Our office specifies these unless TB4+ is required.
https://www.cablematters.com/pc-1640-180-intel-certified-80g...
aka: https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Thunderbolt-Black-3-3ft...
But we prefer such be braided, so with CalDigit we use this:
https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-5-pro-cable/
https://www.amazon.com/CalDigit-Thunderbolt-5-Pro-Cable/dp/B...
Or with Anker we use this:
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Thunderbolt-Charging-Bandwidth-...
That said, we mostly use Apple TB5 for fixed work stations where cables don't get lost.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mdw94am/a/thunderbolt-5-u...
We avoid gaming brand TB cables and the scrabble letter brands.
What do people mean by scrabble letter brands? and I assume TB on the bottom there is just short for Thunderbolt?
Amazon orders are banned from our lab supply list because you never actually get the same thing twice, and they vanish on first bad review.
Related, I've been buying the exact color, style, and brand of sock, from Amazon, for the past ~10 years. I have a sock drawer full of completely different socks.
I've had people in real life start to recommend some product, "oh you just buy it on Amazon" and that is a thought-terminating cliché, because that's like telling me to "go buy it in the shopping mall".
Anker has an official store on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/47CF0F10-7C80-4CCA-A398-A...
I personally love Belkin, also with an official store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/C59F9C55-1122-462C-863E-D...
My Ethernet cables are Tripp Lite, so try their USB: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/D85D7CDC-7E0F-4C9A-8829-2...
So many reputable vendors have established presence in the marketplace on Amazon now. But you must carefully inspect every item in your cart, because you will find lots of brand-items advertised from fly-by-night sellers with poor reputations. But once you see your reputable vendor name, and/or "Sold through Amazon, fulfilled by Amazon" then I've never needed to worry about the end result.
Anker has steps to prove the product is genuine and only guarantee non-counterfeit from offline stores: https://www.anker.com/eu-en/verify
[1] https://www.kuow.org/podcast/newsroom/2019-12-02/sellers-fig...
> When Amazon lists a product, that listing consolidates reviews for many different suppliers of that product. Some of them might be official Felco dealers, others may be arbitrage buyers who've picked up pruners from overseas suppliers at a discount.
[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872426...
See sections "We Are Impacted by Fraudulent or Unlawful Activities of Sellers" and "We Face Risks Related to Adequately Protecting Our Intellectual Property Rights and Being Accused of Infringing Intellectual Property Rights of Third Parties"
Have you read their update announcing changes as of March 31, 2026?
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t...
https://www.anker.com/eu-en/verify
https://cairovolt.com/en/blog/how-to-identify-original-anker
I love how the path includes eu-en but then the list of countries where this is actually used:
> Europe: Turkey, Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Azerbaijan
Looks like list almost half not in the EU and half in, but missing quite a lot of EU countries.
Anker themselves say they "promise that all the products purchased through our Authorized Retailers or Distributors and Online Channels are genuine" but the link to who those are is gone apparently.