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These headphones are a good bargain for the price. If you're looking in the $10 range, you're probably not too concerned with audiophile-quality sound or extreme comfort, so these will do nicely.
Quality-wise, they're pretty well built. I don't feel like I'm going to break them when I pick them up, and they've held out well for the past month of use. I wouldn't roll over them with my chair, but they look like they'll make it for the long haul.
The headset has decent sound; not horrible, not great. It would be hard to enjoy listening to music through these as they are treble-heavy, sound tinny, and are missing in the mid-range. They work great for VOIP and gaming though, as the sound is clear, crisp, and more than tolerable for voice.
As far as the mic goes, it is pretty good. It has a high and low selector switch, which is nice, and it is fairly sensitive. The high setting is good for nighttime gaming when the house is quiet and you don't want to have to yell to be heard for fear of waking the house. The low setting is perfect for the daytime when you don't mind talking in a normal voice and you don't want the kids in the background to be heard. There is only a minor, more than tolerable hiss in recordings which all but disappears when used for VOIP.
They are fairly comfortable and don't bite or pinch with extended use. I do have two complaints though, but they are minor: first, the speakers are on pivots where they connect to the headband. I'm not sure why they are, but I find it irritating because the move around too much and don't "settle in" and sit perfectly. Second, the headband comes too tight out of the box, but can be stretched. When I say tight, I mean the pressure in towards your head. I found, however, that if I stretched them over the edge of my desk overnight that that fixed the problem. I would give them five stars if they were more comfortable.
Just to confirm all the specs, they do indeed have an inline volume control, which is great, and they use two standard 1/8" jacks to connect to the computer (they're not USB). The cord is about 8 feet from headset to connectors (which is good, 'cause you can plug them way in the back of the case buried under the desk and still have cord leftover), with the volume control about 2' from the headset.
All in all they're a pretty decent headset, and I would buy them again, but not without checking around a little to compare alternatives in the same price range.

Very good product for listening to music and conversations. However does not provide a control to switch the microphone on & off in order to eliminate the noise from other devices or from people talking very loud.

I've read less-than-favorable reviews about all kinds of products, including this one. HOWEVER, I have nothing but praise for this headset. I'm sure there are more expensive ones available, but this serves my needs very well(talking on Skype) with NO problems...and for a great price.

I didn't find the headset to be too tight at all...the sound is wonderful...and the microphone works better than expected.

Delivery was in shorter time than promised, too.

Nothing but thumbs up from this more than satisfied customer.

I agree with the above reviews - this headset is a little tight, and they are not hifi music headphones, but for the price, they are perfect for internet phone calls. They are endorsed by Skype and work great with it. The microphone reaches all the way down to your mouth and people can hear me fine.

If I have any criticism at all, it's that the microphone hi/lo/mute switch is very tight, which makes it hard to move, and the volume knob is very loose and makes it possible to change the volume by accident. But it's almost hardly worth mentioning, and not worth losing a star over.

Very simple and straigth forward headset, but with great quality. Good return for the price.