Help me make a descision on importing

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Hi all
Need some help decidng if im gonna import my CPU or not .

Basically here is the reason :
Amd 955 @ neweegg = 190 $ = R1425
Amd 955 @ Pc-int = over R2500 :sick: ( they dont have stock anyway )

i can get it from the US or UK but here is where you guys come in ;)

What is the story with warranties etc , could i pay a distrubutor Ie.Frontosa to fix it if it breaks? Is it a good idea or not ?

Thanks
Cameron
 
flashfire208 said:
Hi all
Need some help decidng if im gonna import my CPU or not .

Basically here is the reason :
Amd 955 @ neweegg = 190 $ = R1425
Amd 955 @ Pc-int = over R2500 :sick: ( they dont have stock anyway )

i can get it from the US or UK but here is where you guys come in ;)

What is the story with warranties etc , could i pay a distrubutor Ie.Frontosa to fix it if it breaks? Is it a good idea or not ?

Thanks
Cameron
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I would also like to know. want to import the following. http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/252344710/game_player.html , http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/234354115/Game_console.html
 
Well you cannot repair a cpu should it fail, they swop it out. You would need to send it back to the store but in all honesty i have only ever seen one cpu go within a 2-3 year period and that was amd 3800+ which rectron swopped out. So the changes of a cpu failing within the first 18 months is very small.

Please don't come with stories on how many intel's have failed i am just pointing out that cpu's very rarely fail.
 
I had a mate who returned from UK with 2 40gb seagate hdd's one went faulty rectron did swap it out. Im not saying every distibutor will honour warrantys, but you could always send an email to amd saying that distributor X is not honouring a warranty, also take in to consideration import duties and insurance etc etc...
 
What's the shipping cost on that? Shouldn't be much, but sometimes there can be some big surprises.

Can't believe we get so screwed on the prices down here. I paid about R2.4K incl. VAT for my 955BE.
 
Maybe I'm lucky but I always pay as standard R25 bucks for customs on PC parts. Plus postage is small change.
 
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Same here, but I've been caught up before and had to produce payment statements. :P
 
woelig said:
has anyone ever bought anything from alibaba.com? Are they reliable?
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BEWARE of Alibaba.com! I have been importing stuff from China for a long time and have seen many people get scammed buy sellers on Alibaba and many people get great bargains. You have to research the company you buy from. Alibaba is very risky

If something seems too good to be true it usually is.

Even some Gold rated suppliers who have been on Alibaba for a few years scam people and Alibaba will do nothing about it.
 
Sensorei said:
BEWARE of Alibaba.com! I have been importing stuff from China for a long time and have seen many people get scammed buy sellers on Alibaba and many people get great bargains. You have to research the company you buy from. Alibaba is very risky

If something seems too good to be true it usually is.

Even some Gold rated suppliers who have been on Alibaba for a few years scam people and Alibaba will do nothing about it.
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when you importing again pls pm me
 
when importing would u just get it shipped here from the international site? or is there a local service that one would go thru?
 
Check the shipping policies on the site you are buying from, then e-mail them to find out if they will ship and what method they will use.
 
The decision to import is pretty simple if you calculate it and balance the risk versus savings; the concern being that a component may fail and not be covered by warranty.

Average failure rate for a PC, defined as a failure requiring a hardware replacement (Gartner), is 5% for first year, and 12% for fourth year. So there is a 5% chance that your component will fail in the first year.

If you buy just one component and it fails (call it a 7% chance of it happening within warranty period), then you lose. If you buy a number of devices, then your savings acts as insurance against a single component failure, and your risk is covered; of course the AFR is an average and all your components could fail.
 
Thanks for the response conradl , really puts everything is perspective - im gonna go local :)
 
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