Newegg vs Amazon - Pricing comparison

[Jamie McKane]

Newegg vs Amazon - Pricing comparison

Newegg recently launched an option to set South Africa as your shopping location on its global website.

This is great news for serial importers, as tech devices on international marketplaces can sometimes be cheaper than buying them in South Africa, even when taking into consideration tax and import costs.

 

[Sapphiron]

Unlike the local stores, when Newegg and Amazon have specials, they are actual specials.

If the local importers can't match the price of a grey import, they have too many fat cats in their supply chain. Usually the ones with “exclusivity” agreements

 

[uchoose]

It will be good to be able to check pricing on all 3. Takealot has given me good service, delivery, returns the others will have to be a fair bit cheaper for me to change.

 

[CTBP]

I only use Amazon for items I can't find locally, and would never use the priority shipping, it's more than double the regular price, just wait an extra week and save yourself hundreds, you can still find items cheaper on Amazon than local. I have returned 2 items which were faulty from Amazon and received a full refund excluding the shipping fee of course, another reason to not use priority shipping.

 

[K3NS31]

Unlike the local stores, when Newegg and Amazon have specials, they are actual specials.

If the local importers can't match the price of a grey import, they have too many fat cats in their supply chain. Usually the ones with “exclusivity” agreements

This. These stores have things called "sales", which most SA retailers have never heard of.