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    Online PC retailers - cheapest?

    What do people think the cheapest online PC componant retailers are at the moment?

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    BUT, if something goes wrong... be sure u will never see your money back
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    Aria seem to have specials which are damn cheap. For example

    www.aria.co.uk

    They have a 17 inch TFT for 134 inc vat
    512 MB SD card for £21 in vat.
    1 GB Pen drive £48 in vat

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    Ebuyer tend to be the cheapest, but the CS is dire, and the deliveries slow.
    lowestonweb are good for some things, but rubbish for others
    Savastore can be quite reasonable
    Then you've got Komplett, Scan, Tekheads, etc, which tend to be a bit hit and miss but have decent customer service
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    www.scan.co.uk are generally good all rounders not necessarily cheapest but i find them to be priced fairly well
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    Quote Originally Posted by xoman
    dabs

    BUT, if something goes wrong... be sure u will never see your money back
    So true.

    Ebuyer are the cheapest overall. RMA's seem to have gotten much better, but CS / enotes still dont seem too fast. Then again, Ebuyer is the type of place to order from when you know exactly what you want
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    I've not had problems with the CS from Ebuyer, it isnt the quickest available, but i usually get replies. Only ever had 1 CD drive from there that didnt work, it was RMAd and they sent me another before they even recieved the old one.

    They are also the cheapest, cheaper than Dabs and Scan on the whole although Scan have some good Today Only offers sometimes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xoman
    dabs

    BUT, if something goes wrong... be sure u will never see your money back
    not true, atleast in my experence, I bought an 9800se AIW, after 10 months it went faulty, I sent it back, after I think 4 weeks I got a complete refund.

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    I used to be a ebuyer fan. Latest order was a complete shamble.

    Looking elsewhere in future.

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    I've never had a single problem with Aria.
    Like scooby I was an ebuyer fan & as said above RMAing stuff to Dabs is problematic.
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    I use Micro Direct quite often, they seem to be one of the cheapest and most professional out there.

    I also use tekheads, mainly because they are also very professional and I've never had a problem with them.

    I actually find dabs to be more expensive that most places and their range of some of the more "hardcore user" items to be rather limited.

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