SSD Advice

Ancalagon said:
how do you guys go about importing stuff from the US?
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Well i used newegg and myUS. A bit of a mission with a credit card cause they want you to scan the back and front but they allow you to block the ccv and expire date though.

Awesome experience, they shopped at newegg for me, charged me 10% extra and send it within 5 days.
 
The 10% covers shipping charges I presume? So its not 10% plus shipping?

And if you happen to get stopped by customs, you pay VAT on 110% of the value?
 
Ancalagon said:
The 10% covers shipping charges I presume? So its not 10% plus shipping?

And if you happen to get stopped by customs, you pay VAT on 110% of the value?
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Nope the 10% was the charge for them to do the shopping, the shipping from newegg to most parts of the US is free but they charge a 10% shopping fee, i used the 5 day service which was 30 dollars for a ssd :eek:, so don't try and import heavy stuff using the 5 day service.
 
Okay I'm a little confused, how does this work?

I setup a Myus.com account, get a US address from them, and then place my order from Newegg and get it sent to the MyUs address. MyUS then ships the order to me. Right?

Or do you order from newegg via MyUS?

EDIT: Geez its so much cheaper, I really am thinking of ordering pretty much an entire PC minus the case and PSU.
 
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Ancalagon said:
Okay I'm a little confused, how does this work?

I setup a Myus.com account, get a US address from them, and then place my order from Newegg and get it sent to the MyUs address. MyUS then ships the order to me. Right?

Or do you order from newegg via MyUS?

EDIT: Geez its so much cheaper, I really am thinking of ordering pretty much an entire PC minus the case and PSU.
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You give them the link for your goods, pay them. They order from newegg and ship to you. Most things on newegg have free shipping if you live in the US, so myUS will go do your shopping you provide them with the link they total it add their 10% plus shipping and off you go.

Also remember you will be charged 10% plus 14% when it lands. The shipping company will clear the goods for you. what is nice is you can track every step of your package.

Yup it is very cheap, i imported a 128gb ssd for 4k, at that time you couldn't buy a 128gb here and if you could find someone with stock they were 10k+. Make sure you get a price or have an idea of the shipping costs. I find it is not much cheaper on certain things.

Go check out the 2500k from newegg, 314 x 8 x 10 x 14% = without shipping it costs more to import.

What is that much cheaper? Also remember if something breaks you will need to ship it. So if something is 200-300 rand cheaper it ain't worth it. Even 1k cheaper for all goods is not worth it.
 
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I think thats one way of doing it - not the cheap way. The other way is what I described - read here.

What I've decided to do is wait for Bulldozer to launch, if it launches on the 12th of October (EDIT: If BD doesnt launch on the 12th then it will have to be a Core i5). Oh and I want to sell my old PC, might already have found a buyer. Anyway, once those two things happen, I want to order:
CPU - about $200 - $220 of whatever is best at the time
Motherboard - about $150 worth
Memory - 8GB DDR 1866
SSDs - 1 x 64GB for OS and virtual mem, 1 x 240/256GB for games
HDD - 1 x WD Caviar Black 1TB
CPU cooler - Antec Kuhler 620
GPU - trying to decide between a 6870, 560Ti and 6950. Have to say, the price/performance of the 6870 is looking very hard to beat right now.
Possibly a SB XFi - I like having a discrete sound card. XFi Crystalizer is pretty handy to make MP3s sound better.

And then on this side I'll buy a Corsair Carbide 400R, win7 home premium 64 bit, and a Coolermaster 600W silent modular PSU, forget the model name.
 
Sorry for double post, seemed more appropriate.

After looking closely at prices, the only things probably worth importing are SSDs. We get ripped badly on SSDs here, way worse than in the States. The rest comes out to similar prices, except sometimes for higher end GPUs and motherboards, which are cheaper over there by a few hundred bucks.
 
Until there is a recall on your drive...... Been quite a few of those lately.
 
I'd only order proven SSDs, such as a Crucial m4 or OCZ Agility 3. I mean at least with those I know what the problems are already (that both require immediate firmware upgrades).
 
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