My lightning chargers keep breaking

I have had 5 different lightning chargers. I have to buy so many because ios 7 banned non Apple lightning chargers. Every single one of them have broken the same way. The wires come out of the main part of the charger(part that goes in iPod). Is there anyway to prevent this?

my God yes..exactly the same problem. The cables must be very poorly made as there are many other people that have the same problem. I would love to contact Apple directly but this seems to be impossible. Does anyone know how to email them to discuss this. They need to know that there is a problem . I am sick of having to spend nz $30 for yet another cable as they break after 6-8 weeks...if they last that long.
And how do you ask a new question and submit it?? i couldn't even do that.haha. Typed in my question and then had to choose a community- chose iphone 5 and then all the subcommunities were greyed out. so I can had to reply to this comment instead!

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