Buying from Amazon

noobboy85

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Hi,

Seek your opinions and thoughts on buying from Amazon. Noticed that the discount can get pretty good for selected parts.

Earlier hooted a Samsung 250 g SSD @ 140 SGD.

These are the parts (prices in USD):
- MSI ATX DDR3 2400 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z97 PC MATE by MSI ($91.54)
- Intel Core i5-4690K Processor 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K ($235.99)
- Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB Kit (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Black (HX316C10FBK2/8) ($55.99)
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan (RR-212E-20PK-R2) ($31.24)
- WD Blue 1TB Desktop 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive ($50.99)
-Samsung Electronics 24x DVDRW SATA Optical Drives SH-224FB/RSBS ($21.95)

Total - $518.94 (SGD 738.16 for pay with SGD in amazon) - All items qualify for free shipping to SG. Not sure how much I save vs buying locally...

Planning to hoot 980ti off amazon. at 680usd and effective exchange rate of 1.5 I should be able to save ard 200, which is around 15% from local prices.

Casing (Corsair Carbide 540) & PSU (Seasonic/FSP) seems cheaper on lazada, especially with discount codes.


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- Anyone has any prior experience buying off amazon? Will shipping back for warranty be troublesome?
- Is it cheaper to use pay in SGD function on amazon? the exchange rate is ard 1.42. Will I still incurr the credit card overseas charges if I do (then the effective exchange rate may hit 1.5)?

Note - after posting, used the visa exchange calculator and added in 1.5% as credit card rate - works out to 1.36899 effective exchange rate which is better than pay in sgd. this makes my cart cost ard 710 sgd and a 680 USD 980ti ard 930 SGD.
 
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OngHuatHuat

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You can get them ship motherboard for free?

Ssd buy at Lazada cheaper.

I only bought ram, hdd and wifi card from Amazon. The rest I bought them from Lazada except for motherboard and cpu(bought at tradepac)
 

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Hi,

Seek your opinions and thoughts on buying from Amazon. Noticed that the discount can get pretty good for selected parts.

Earlier hooted a Samsung 250 g SSD @ 140 SGD.

These are the parts (prices in USD):
- MSI ATX DDR3 2400 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z97 PC MATE by MSI ($91.54)
- Intel Core i5-4690K Processor 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K ($235.99)
- Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB Kit (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Black (HX316C10FBK2/8) ($55.99)
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan (RR-212E-20PK-R2) ($31.24)
- WD Blue 1TB Desktop 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive ($50.99)
-Samsung Electronics 24x DVDRW SATA Optical Drives SH-224FB/RSBS ($21.95)

Total - $518.94 (SGD 738.16 for pay with SGD in amazon) - All items qualify for free shipping to SG. Not sure how much I save vs buying locally...

Planning to hoot 980ti off amazon. at 680usd and effective exchange rate of 1.5 I should be able to save ard 200, which is around 15% from local prices.

Casing (Corsair Carbide 540) & PSU (Seasonic/FSP) seems cheaper on lazada, especially with discount codes.


Questions
- Anyone has any prior experience buying off amazon? Will shipping back for warranty be troublesome?
- Is it cheaper to use pay in SGD function on amazon? the exchange rate is ard 1.42. Will I still incurr the credit card overseas charges if I do (then the effective exchange rate may hit 1.5)?

Note - after posting, used the visa exchange calculator and added in 1.5% as credit card rate - works out to 1.36899 effective exchange rate which is better than pay in sgd. this makes my cart cost ard 710 sgd and a 680 USD 980ti ard 930 SGD.

Cheaper to pay in usd. Use credit card that gives 6-7 % rebate for online purchase.
 

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nowadays with lazada and their promo code, certain product seems to be cheaper as comapred to amazon
 

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DVD drive is only SGD$21-25 in SLS. To get from amazon at US$22 is just :s22::s22::s22:...

Also, best is if you get mobo+cpu locally. If it dies, it will be troublesome to RMA as it is big.

Also, u can try looking for 850 evo 250gb at qoo10. Some sellers are selling at $149 SGD.
 

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Tbh, all the parts you wanna buy dont even save more than $2-3 per part and also you have to separate mobo + cpu to be shipped by fowarder.

Nope not viable to build as most of the parts are not even equal to sg buying with warranty.

Here you go.

Msi z97 pc mate + i5-4690k ~ $427
Kingston Hyper X Fury 2x4gb kit ~ $85
WD Blue 1tb ~ $70
Samsung dvd drive ~ $21
Coolermaster EVO 212 ~ $57

Total ~ $660. Cheaper, same components and with warranty.
 

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pretty fail build if you ask me.

assuming you are buying those items from amazon, when they reach SG you will have to pay additional 7% GST since your items value worth above SGD400 (unless you are going to split them up).

only worth buying some stuff from amazon when the discount is a lot (>50%)
 

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You better tolong bopee ur mobo and gpu won't spoil after 1 month.. if heng heng anything happens.. dun chuai sai when you see the freight cost after you go weigh those item(s) at any carrier :s13:
 

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u shld buy everything locally
except high capacity ssd sata or m.2 pci-e or really high end stuff
nowadays the price for locally is so competitive.
 

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Hello! Would it still be $427 if they were standalone purchases without a complete build?

I read those quotation only apply to complete builds, with an exponential price increment for standalone purchases.

Thank you!

Judging from what he wanna get, and it is definitely a full rig as i was just comparing if he were to buy all those parts in SLS.

Cause later part of his post he mentioned that he will need to buy all the rest of the stuffs like chassis and PSU as well.

A standalone mobo + CPU purchase it can varies an additional surcharge.
 

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I shop on Amazon quite often, but I am not sure how much more you will save for things like mobo, CPU, heatsink fan and the DVD drive. Not sure if you have checked the prices locally first though?

I do recommend getting things like ram and SSD from Amazon cause they are typically cheaper. Even better if they are on discounts.

Graphic card wise, I think you can realize good savings assuming you don't get slapped with GST when it goes through customs. So I think you best do the math first before pulling the trigger man.

I am not aware there are any additional credit card charges. The charge would have been factored into the exchange rate that they quote you in your bill. So don't expect to get the spot exchange rate you found online. If its 1.42 now, I recommend taking worst case of 1.46 to 1.48.
 

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Some people here are so afraid of shopping for electronics online that they spread the term "dead on arrival" like plague. Tell me, out of all those who have bought parts online, how many of them have encountered serious issues?

My pc build is 70% amazon and i might just be a lucky guy. I personally dont have a problem waiting for shipments as im used to shopping online.
 

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Nowadays, I only buy ram and processors from Amazon as it is still cheaper. For SSDs, Lazada offers the best deal especially if you have coupon codes and the right credit card.
 

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Nowadays, I only buy ram and processors from Amazon as it is still cheaper. For SSDs, Lazada offers the best deal especially if you have coupon codes and the right credit card.

Yup... Samsung 850 Evo 250Gb I managed to get at $113.75 also from Lazada.
Sales + Code + Shopback is really a fatal addiction :s13:
 

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Amazon does not usually ship mobo direct to sg. So it's added shipping costs to forwarder if u buy from them.

For rma, sometimes they just give refund, which is better.

Since buying gpu from there, might as well get Evga as not sold locally.
 
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