[MERGED] Retailer Discussion Thread

J0hnick

Between crypto miners, scalpers, brexit and covid, theres never been a worse time to build a new PC in Ireland then right now

Cuddlesworth

J0hnick wrote: »

Between crypto miners, scalpers, brexit and covid, theres never been a worse time to build a new PC in the world then right now

Fixed that for you.

My son just got all his parts bar the graphics card and drives over the last 2 weeks from Amazon.de. said he will use the 1060, 500gb SSD off his old machine til March when new graphics cards are out and they are not bought up instantly by bots. He got case from caseking.de. total shipping cost was €12 and the total order came to €855 so didn't mind the shipping and everything arrived a couple of days earlier than predicted.
Prices were not much different to what my older son paid to build his one last September. Now I just have to replace the 15yr old desktop their mother uses to order the shopping and keep photos (which are synced to MS OneDrive account).
Oh and the biggest lesson we learned from the build last September....... Get a good quality magnetic screwdriver set. Was first item delivered this time.

laneooo

caseking.de? Pricing seems reasonable considering...may order from them, anything I should look out for?

There shouldn't be any charges/tax/customs surely yeah? looking at a 800 order so don't want any surprises pretty sure there should be none but wanted to ask regradless

GHOST MGG

laneooo wrote: »

caseking.de? Pricing seems reasonable considering...may order from them, anything I should look out for?

There shouldn't be any charges/tax/customs surely yeah? looking at a 800 order so don't want any surprises pretty sure there should be none but wanted to ask regradless

No extra charges if you order from caseking.de i just got an order from them the other day..only downside for me was there packing material was poor

ConorSammon

Do you pay extra customs if you buy from Max Burns?
Also if you order multiple items from them at the same time, do the shipping fees stack. Thanks

laneooo

GHOST MGG wrote: »

No extra charges if you order from caseking.de i just got an order from them the other day..only downside for me was there packing material was poor

Thank you for the quick reply ghost, I'm gonna order from them then.

GHOST MGG

laneooo wrote: »

Thank you for the quick reply ghost, I'm gonna order from them then.

They use DHL for delivery from germany who in turn hand it off to AN POST for delivery here...it took about a week to get my order so just a heads up..dont be expecting amazon prime delivery times lol

xtal191

Looking to get some Artic P12 PWM PST fans, seem to mostly out of stock everywhere. Any of you used the following site before?

https://www.computeruniverse.net/en/arctic-p12-pwm-pst-co-acfan00121a-120mm-schwarz

K.O.Kiki

xtal191 wrote: »

Looking to get some Artic P12 PWM PST fans, seem to mostly out of stock everywhere. Any of you used the following site before?

https://www.computeruniverse.net/en/arctic-p12-pwm-pst-co-acfan00121a-120mm-schwarz

14 euro shipping

edit: White ones cheaper on Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07GJG285F/ref=crt_ewc_img_srh_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF

deceit

xtal191 wrote: »

Looking to get some Artic P12 PWM PST fans, seem to mostly out of stock everywhere. Any of you used the following site before?

https://www.computeruniverse.net/en/arctic-p12-pwm-pst-co-acfan00121a-120mm-schwarz

I was just reading a thread this morning on linustechtips about someone having a ****ty experience with them which put me off using them.
Something about the held their money for 3 months, didn't deliver the part, then afterwards cancelled the order and jacked up the price by 500.

elbyrneo

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

14 euro shipping

edit: White ones cheaper on Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07GJG285F/ref=crt_ewc_img_srh_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF

I ordered those white ones after your kind advice thread yesterday asking for help on case fans and CPU noise.

Ordered 4, two in my name and 2 in my wife's to keep below the 22 limit overall.

Thanks again!

rat_race

elbyrneo wrote: »

I ordered those white ones after your kind advice thread yesterday asking for help on case fans and CPU noise.

Ordered 4, two in my name and 2 in my wife's to keep below the 22 limit overall.

Thanks again!

22 limit for Amazon.de?

xtal191

elbyrneo wrote: »

I ordered those white ones after your kind advice thread yesterday asking for help on case fans and CPU noise.

Ordered 4, two in my name and 2 in my wife's to keep below the 22 limit overall.

Thanks again!

What 22 limit?

Serephucus

Orders below that amount aren't subject to import taxes.

I've been doing the same: Ordering stuff in batches of <€22. Amazon usually stick them all in the same box for shipping anyway, so the only change is a bit of extra hassle moving stuff in and out of the basket.

rat_race

Serephucus wrote: »

Orders below that amount aren't subject to import taxes.

I've been doing the same: Ordering stuff in batches of <€22. Amazon usually stick them all in the same box for shipping anyway, so the only change is a bit of extra hassle moving stuff in and out of the basket.

Since when is Germany outside of European Union?

VinLieger

Well this is interesting, I ordered a Fractal Meshify S2 case off Amazon DE on Jan 31st but it was out of stock, got a notification yesterday its being shipped from a UK facility.

ConorSammon

Is it true that overclockers dont have any extra import/tax fees when delivering to Ireland?

Keyzer

Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue start thinking about building a PC.

Got into SIM Racing massively during the last year and the console is not cutting the mustard for me anymore.

Are things really that bad in terms of availability and shipping?

Seems like I won't be able to purchase anything decent until the end of this year at the earliest.

ConorSammon

ConorSammon wrote: »

Is it true that overclockers dont have any extra import/tax fees when delivering to Ireland?

Don't think they are shipping here at the moment.

Nonoperational

They aren’t.

Keyzer

Keyzer wrote: »

Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue start thinking about building a PC.

Got into SIM Racing massively during the last year and the console is not cutting the mustard for me anymore.

Are things really that bad in terms of availability and shipping?

Seems like I won't be able to purchase anything decent until the end of this year at the earliest.

My son just built a new gaming PC. He got all the parts from Amazon.de and caseking.de. He had to reuse his GTX 1060 from his old PC as there are none available to buy at the moment. You have to pay for shipping but if you bundle everything together in the order you just pay once for shipping, even though most things came separately.

Keyzer

Deleted User wrote: »

My son just built a new gaming PC. He got all the parts from Amazon.de and caseking.de. He had to reuse his GTX 1060 from his old PC as there are none available to buy at the moment. You have to pay for shipping but if you bundle everything together in the order you just pay once for shipping, even though most things came separately.

I'm literally starting from scratcheroo. Last time I built a PC was 15 years ago.

Thanks for the response though.

Coyler

FYI, mailboxde.com is back allowing registration after blocking it due to a surge of new users. Haven't used it myself yet but it comes highly recommended. They offer a consolidation service, for a one off fee or annual charge, so if you find a few deals in other German sites it would help greatly. Mindfactory has some really good prices, for example.

Robert ninja

^ Damn and I just used Address Pal to get something from the US when it was availablle from Germany but they didn't ship to Ireland or UK.

viperlogic

Just did a build with majority from Amazon DE and few bits from Amazon UK. Note that availability and price fluctuates daily so don't hang around as you may miss out.

Shlippery

At least it looks like Amazon UK are stabilising now and back to deliveries within a couple of days, now all the need is to sort out the stock issues.

OmegaRed

Shlippery wrote: »

At least it looks like Amazon UK are stabilising now and back to deliveries within a couple of days, now all the need is to sort out the stock issues.

Yup, I ordered stuff on Thursday and it arrived today.

Robert ninja

Cancelled the order from HyperX's official site and went with amazon US. After running the numbers it turns out it's pretty much the same price if I used a 3rd party delivery service. Only downside is it's going to take ages to get here... about 2 weeks. But at least it's coming directly to me, completely paid through amazon and I can avail of their returns if something goes wrong.

It's mad that HyperX have these in stock for a lot of the EU and US but not Ireland or UK. Like sure just make 99% of your advertising in English and with euros but don't ship to the only English speaking country to use euros...

ConorSammon

Any sites in Europe stocking the 1660 or 1660 super and not at ridiculous prices? Dont mind paying within 150 of the mrsp

.G.

ConorSammon wrote: »

Any sites in Europe stocking the 1660 or 1660 super and not at ridiculous prices? Dont mind paying within 150 of the mrsp

Can use https://geizhals.eu/ to search but not all sites listed will deliver to here.

randomlad1337

.G. wrote: »

Can use https://geizhals.eu/ to search but not all sites listed will deliver to here.

I dont think any of the stores listed on that website actually delivery to Ireland, not without post forwarding service.

Slutmonkey57b

Yeah they do. When you click on a part each store will list its postal options

laneooo

Got my order from caseking. Can't complain really, arrived withing 10 days of ordering and prices were ok, got everything bar a card so pretty happy to get it within 10 days with stock problems n all.

PerrinV2

Dunno if I should make a new thread for this or not but do of you guys know where would be the best site to get a SSD drive for a laptop, a windows 10 key and an office key?

Aodhan5000

PerrinV2 wrote: »

Dunno if I should make a new thread for this or not but do of you guys know where would be the best site to get a SSD drive for a laptop, a windows 10 key and an office key?

Amazon UK for SSD probably. Adverts and eBay have grey market windows 10 keys which are fine and office keys

.G.

Memoryc.ie sell SSDs, based in celbridge. You'll get keys from adverts or amazon if you want to go fully legit. Office suite of tools is available for free online these days on the office website and windows will work without a key forever.

ShadowHearth

Any other options for Pre built systems out there outside of Dell? Thanks to brexit u can't see much options anymore.

ShadowHearth

I just got reply from pcspecialist.ie I asked them about whole brexit and customs.

So he said that they are registered in Ireland and it will be Irish vat and should be no issues. And that if there are any custom duties, it will be covered by them on arrival.

Hopefully this helps out to someone.

PerrinV2

.G. wrote: »

Memoryc.ie sell SSDs, based in celbridge. You'll get keys from adverts or amazon if you want to go fully legit. Office suite of tools is available for free online these days on the office website and windows will work without a key forever.

Well I actually need to install windows on 2 drives,I someone selling a windows 10 bootable usb key on adverts ,might be an idea to get that first.

*Actually I think I can just get the boot media off windows and get the key later.

Tin Man

With the 3070Ti and 3080Ti about to be released (announced?) along with Nvidea's low hash rate refresh of all their cards, are there any retailers still sticking close to the recommended retail price when they do get cards in?

If I wanted to take a chance getting an order in as soon as sites go live with the new cards, who are most likely to not rip me off by crazy amounts on the small chance I snap an order before a bot?

Cuddlesworth

Tin Man wrote: »

With the 3070Ti and 3080Ti about to be released (announced?) along with Nvidea's low hash rate refresh of all their cards, are there any retailers still sticking close to the recommended retail price when they do get cards in?

Nobody knows. Also, you know nothing about the cards then their names, so is it that important to purchase one?

Tin Man wrote: »

If I wanted to take a chance getting an order in as soon as sites go live with the new cards, who are most likely to not rip me off by crazy amounts on the small chance I snap an order before a bot?

Right now, the only retailer in Europe who isn't ripping off consumers is the direct sales via AMD/Nvidia with their reference cards.

AlmightyCushion

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Nobody knows. Also, you know nothing about the cards then their names, so is it that important to purchase one?



Right now, the only retailer in Europe who isn't ripping off consumers is the direct sales via AMD/Nvidia with their reference cards.

Do Nvidia even sell cards to us here in Ireland?

randomlad1337

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Do Nvidia even sell cards to us here in Ireland?

Supposed to through Scan UK before brexit, not after Brexit. Scan cant sort out their shipping.

Cuddlesworth

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Do Nvidia even sell cards to us here in Ireland?

Nope but they don't care either.

Tin Man

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Nobody knows. Also, you know nothing about the cards then their names, so is it that important to purchase one?

Important? No, not at all. These things are pure luxury items and I already have a 1070. The very definition of non-essential.
I don't even think I'll be successful.

I did see that EVGA have a virtual queue running for all of their cards to try and limit them to one per household. You get an email when its your turn and you have 8 hours to confirm a purchase.

I might just put my name down on that once the new LHR variants go up and then wait another 6 to 9 months for my shot

Tin Man

Caseking have 2060's in stock for 590 if anyone is interested. They have some 1660 Supers as well for 618 and 643 depending on the model.
Still very overpriced but if you have no GPU at all it will get you up and running.

They have a 1650 for 230 as well

https://www.caseking.de/en/pc-components/graphics-cards/nvidia

BloodBath

You would want to be mental to pay that price for any of those cards.

AMD direct or a decent second hand deal or forget about it.

There's still people selling gtx 970's for in and around €100 on adverts which outperforms the 1650 slightly.

Tin Man

BloodBath wrote: »

You would want to be mental to pay that price for any of those cards.

AMD direct or a decent second hand deal or forget about it.

Oh yeah its insane pricing but looking at Ebay Ireland and a 1660 Super listed as brand new is going for about 780. They're probably scalpers as well. Dirty scalpers!

aFlabbyPanda

Planning an order for a build for my son from caseking.de but there is a warning about 21% vat at checkout. I thought as part of the EU this wouldn't apply, anyone bought recently and if so, were there any problems?