I guess you now know the answer for most of the questions you asked me, but here we go anyway. e-bay, the site, is a third party site and the only reliability you get is that of the seller, so check the feedback. The guy I bought from had 108,000 feedbacks....98.5% were positive.......so I was fairly confident when I bid. And yes....I got mine for $0.29 plus $6 for shipping. They're not official Motorola cables and that's why they're cheap, but they work just as fine.
The link I gave you was that of the auction that I won. The winning bidder (myouni1) is me. And $8.90 is not bad either.......sure beats the hell out of $20 or $30.
And yes......you can download the software from
here