ghell
09-05-2007, 04:51 PM
Can anyone suggest a good place online to buy computer hardware in the UK and some comments about it?
A few years ago I used dabs.com but it got a bit crap (I just received an 8 way surge protector from dabs that has been "in stock" for the 3 months that I have had it ordered but only just delivered)
For the majority of my purchases I have used scan.co.uk. The service is good, things get delivered very cheaply and quickly (for example when I bought my current PC in parts it came to only £20 delivery and arrived the next buisness day at 11am [using the standard 9am to 5pm delivery slot]) because they use city link and if something is out of stock, which is pretty rare, it is usually back in stock within a day or two. However, I get the feeling a LOT of products on scan have been previously RMAd. For example I have had problems with my PC since I got it a year ago (and pretty much replaced every part trying to find the cause of it), my brother's pc has had similar but generally more minor problems, a friend of mine had a problem with the £500 XFX GeForce 8800 Ultra XXX he bought not working at all and had to RMA it and an X-QPack case I bought the other day came with no screws, no power cord, only half of the normal packing and a broken LCD temperature display.
Also scan seem to have a strange selection of items. Things like graphics cards and processors they usually get incredibly quickly but things like cpu fans tend to be a few years behind the times (so I got mine from overclockers.co.uk) and their case selections are usually not that great any more.
I have another friend who bought a screen off ebuyer but trying to help him pick one was a nightmare on their site and I don't know what the delivery was like.
A few years ago I used dabs.com but it got a bit crap (I just received an 8 way surge protector from dabs that has been "in stock" for the 3 months that I have had it ordered but only just delivered)
For the majority of my purchases I have used scan.co.uk. The service is good, things get delivered very cheaply and quickly (for example when I bought my current PC in parts it came to only £20 delivery and arrived the next buisness day at 11am [using the standard 9am to 5pm delivery slot]) because they use city link and if something is out of stock, which is pretty rare, it is usually back in stock within a day or two. However, I get the feeling a LOT of products on scan have been previously RMAd. For example I have had problems with my PC since I got it a year ago (and pretty much replaced every part trying to find the cause of it), my brother's pc has had similar but generally more minor problems, a friend of mine had a problem with the £500 XFX GeForce 8800 Ultra XXX he bought not working at all and had to RMA it and an X-QPack case I bought the other day came with no screws, no power cord, only half of the normal packing and a broken LCD temperature display.
Also scan seem to have a strange selection of items. Things like graphics cards and processors they usually get incredibly quickly but things like cpu fans tend to be a few years behind the times (so I got mine from overclockers.co.uk) and their case selections are usually not that great any more.
I have another friend who bought a screen off ebuyer but trying to help him pick one was a nightmare on their site and I don't know what the delivery was like.