I am thinking of building a system sometime before the end of the 1st quarter next year. So I have been doing research and pricing up what system I would buy now if I decided to. To my amazement the above two places were able to price up the components i would have wanted after i had done some serious research into OC'g and the like.

The components I was looking for were the below as a matter of interest:
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Core2Quad Q9550 2.66GHz 2x6MB L2 Cache
ASUS P5Q Deluxe P45 (DDR2)
HD4850
Corsair DDR2-800 4GB (2x2GB)
Cooler Master Real Power Pro RS-750-ACAA Power Supply - 750W
Coolmaster CM690 (Windowed case)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Series - 500GB SATA
From the various sites I visted it seemed that these components should be fairly common. Besides the 2 mentioned in the title, i also compared to another 3 online stores which the forum is familiar with. Yet the others were either fairly far in prices or did not have the components.

I accept that when I am ready to buy I will send an email to all the vendors, but to be frank, I may not if I feel the prices they show on their sites are way off. I would wonder if others wouldn't do the same.