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.
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.
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