Building My Own PC

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Woah, why buying from overseas? Plus newegg don't ship direct do they?

This is from a local place near me in Brisbane, they ship via Toll IPEC

You going to put it together yourself?

edit2: as i remembered:

Does Newegg.com ship internationally?

Newegg.com does not currently ship internationally; we only deliver to locations within the United States and to Puerto Rico.

Plus its going to cost a looot of money to ship, and its gotta go via someone else. I could drive in and buy that stuff tomorrow.

I usually buy stuff from overseas regardless because it is usually ALWAYS cheaper even after shipping+import tax, which is crazy. Especially considering that the exchange rate is good currently. My headphones are a perfect example, I got them for AUS$100 imported via Amazon + AUS$15 shipping compared to AUS$150 locally. That's AUS$35 in savings, or 7 beers in layman's terms.

Yes, I'll be assembling it.

Looks like I'll have to shop around here, and use that as a comparison. Get my haggling hat on. I hate being held for ransom over prices simply because retailers here think they can.

Perfect example:

The case I listed is AUS$76.97 on NewEgg, but AUS$99.99 here. Why the $25 mark up? They'd be shipped in bulk so shipping wouldn't be excessive? They most likely come from Asia as well so shipping and import tax would be less than it would be for NewEgg.

And pever the shop you quoted from the same PSU after factoring in the exchange rate it is $30 dollars more expensive than NewEgg sells them for. When you do that across a range of items and ship them in bulk the shipping+import tax ends up less than that mark-up. So it is still cheaper to find somewhere in Hong Kong/Europe/US than buy locally.

www.itsnotcheating.com.au has win 7 cheap for students.

Ah yes. I remember that, we covered it in Market Research.

Edit - That's Office 2010. I already have that, given to me from Microsoft as a prize for the aforementioned Market Research.

Edit2 - Comparing prices locally and overseas:

Case = +25
Mobo = +20
CPU = +30
HDD = +31.50
GPU = +39
RAM = +24
PSU = +37
Fan/Heatsink = -22

The only thing that is cheaper for me to buy locally is the fan+heatsink. Shipping+import tax spread across 7 items will be less than $206.5 more it costs to buy locally.

Edit3 - Some shopping around and I'm able to get what I want for $120 more than US prices (irritating). I can pick up 5 of the items locally. The other 2 are listed much cheaper in Melbourne, from the same outlet, so shipping can be split across the two items. One is a toss up, depending on the shipping cost, which I've emailed them about.

Edit4 - More shopping around. I can get 6 items from Melbourne plus shipping and 3 pick-up locally for $95 more than US prices.