Buying Computer components from overseas

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Beezma

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#61750 22-May-2010 11:43

Hi,

Does anyone know of any good websites that offer good prices and international shipping.
Its just annoys me that places like newegg have great prices but no international shipping.

p.s And yes, I'm aware of ascent, pricespy and pbtech.

samwooff

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#333714 23-May-2010 20:33

Both tiger direct and performance pc ship internationally. Neither quite has the range of newegg though performance pc does have some unique offerings.

If you want something off a site like newegg, www.buyusa.co.nz can ship anything to new zealand from an american retailer for you, for a small fee of course.

I investigated this a while ago and initially it may seem to work out a lot cheaper especially for smaller items but of course you lose the advantage of having a physical store and a nearby contact if you're unlucky enough to have to rma something.

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#333723 23-May-2010 20:42

Yeah buyusa.co.nz or Shipito.com will do the trick

Then you can buy from Newgg, Amazon and a few other places

I have moved across the ditch. Now residing in Melbourne as a VOIP/Video Technical Trainer/Engineer.

Beezma

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#333751 23-May-2010 21:19

Thats what I was looking for.
I had a quick look PriceUSA seems to be more expensive charging 8%(and $25USD min), shipitto is cheaper at only $8.50USD service fee.

I'll investigate a bit too see if I will be saving much, I'm planning to buy memory and psu.

p.s I found good rep for PriceUSA, however can I trust Shipitto?

Beezma

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#334251 24-May-2010 21:57

For a athlon II x4 630 and 4Gb of memory it will be about $45 cheaper.
The price doesn't sound too bad, however can I trust Shipitto and will there be any additional costs?

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#334255 24-May-2010 22:03

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#334803 25-May-2010 22:22

I have done this quite a bit on one side parts are cheaper in the US but the posting is hell expensive so the only way that i got around the issue is by giving a US resident friend address and pay him by check for sending it snail air mail and only takes just over a week or ten days and cheap.

good luck,

Andy