Weird iPod charging problem

Well I have this rather odd problem that I cannot seem to find or fix myself. I bought a few iPod charger cables from eBay the other day (5 of them) as I didn't have that many spare around the house. When I first used the cables, they worked find untill today. They just do not want to charge my iPod no matter what I do. Now to make sure it's not a problem with my iPod's charging ability, I used one of the cables that came out of the box...and it worked. I've tried different USB ports, power points and about 4 different wall chargers and still, the cables didn't work.
Now the cables are sold as actual iPod cables, and they llook idential and no one else has had any problems. So I thought what about them using on other iPods in the house. I tried them on my sisters 3G, sisters 4G, nano 1G, nano 2G and nano 4G....and the cables worked. Every iDevice in the house worked with the cables but my iPod. The versions of the ipods are the same (4.3.3) and are all synced with the same computer.
But why isn't it working on mine. My iPod can charge with every cable BUT the ones that I recently bought. And every other iPod charges with the cables so it's not a problem with the cables.
I'm using a iPod Touch 3G
iOS version : 4.3.3
All help will be taken into account, and thanks in advance,
xxSHABSxx

I didn't buy the cables from the Apple Store, I bought them from eBay. And it's not the cables problem as it charges every other device in the house.

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