3rd-Party Failure

Hoping to save some money, a.k.a cheapskate, I ordered a 3rd-party Nikon SC-28 hotshoe cord for off-camera flash. Cost me S$40 inclusive of shipping from Hong Kong. Boy, am I going to regret it.

The new setup:




Happily I took it to my company's dinner n dance. When I came back, I could pull the cord off the camera! It seems the catch to the retaining pin is loose! I couldn't reach the 4 screws underneath. In the end, I cut the cord to get an opening and pry and twisted.



What a disaster. I bought the original Nikon SC-29 the very next day for a cool S$128. Fits perfectly ...