i want entry to the vicious cycle

There exists in my campus a standardised package offered to every new batch for a laptop(every student needs a laptop to study,play,play with,talk,surf,expand horizons,contract,love,cherish,nurture,bang etc.). This packages enables each student to get a pretty cool deal at an even cooler price vis-a-vis the standard market deal. What this eventually means is that there is a really good laptop that looks kinda average in the laps of 80% of the populace And with commodities come commoditised accessories such as the charger. The charger is such an important accessory. literally an umblical cord, it is an expensive umblical cord at that. So what happens when the charger is lost?
option 1: spend 2-3 k on a new charger
option 2: wack/scam/steal another's.

with a 100 options for replacement around i think its pretty obvious what most of these people are doing. Weekly someone or the other sends a mail out into our student groups asking for their charger back and a week later their charger is 'replaced' by them. im pretty sure that in this circle of lose -steal-lose-steal.... the same charger would have passed through a single persons hand twice or thrice.

what nails me here is my charger has stared malfunctioning big time. However to 'stand out from the crowd' i had bought a laptop of another make; a pretty nice looking laptop if i may add. And there are so few options for me to steal from! the only option i know of is a close friend that i do not want to do this to, but if i dont find another option soon...