Need some help with online retailers please!!!

[Novdid]

As many of you know, the prices here in Europe are obscenely higher than those in the US for a plethora of computer products. I'm sick and tired that we over here sometimes have to pay 50% more for some parts.

I'm a poor man...a student that lives on a limited budget.

And that leads me to what I need some help with. I want some help from you to name a couple of trustworthy retailers that ship to Europe. The one I have found somewhat interesting is Silver Bullet PC. Not a wide range of products to say the least.

I can give you some examples of prices on videocards in the current value of the dollar ($1 = SEK9,37):

Parhelia, by far cheapest in Sweden: SEK 4490 ($479), not that bad actually...

Radeon 9700 Pro, preorder. Only found one place that lists it. SEK 5488 ($586), absolutely not reasonable. I now it will eventually come down in price, but you get the hunch on what they will charge for it.

All motherboards here are almost double the price it seems.

Example: VIA's Athlon boards range from ~$120->$200, expensive crap.

Offcourse I wont even consider ordering HD's from the US of A, can become messy I guess. Only fairly secure parts like Video cards etc, etc. And even if you count in the shipping some things will be much cheaper this way.

Thank you.

[Novdid]

I have looked around, but it's hard to find retailers that ship internationally.

I tried pricewatch, what a mess...

Anyone???

[103er-Fan]

Unfortunatly I can't really help you there, I think it was EB or Newegg who offered international shipping, but only if you contact them by mail or phone.

Not really what you would like is ebay, I ordered a Radeon 8500 from there last year, some people there are shipping world wide, only problem would be shipping cost and time

[Pace]

Will you not pay hefty import taxes? A few of my friends in the UK have ordered some stuff online (small items at that), and got charged tax on delivery. I think it was the standard UK tax (i.e. VAT at 17.5%), but I'm not sure

Has anyone you know ordered stuff - did Mr Swedish Government add a slice of tax onto that?

[Novdid]

I think you have to keep your order under a specific value, before it becomes taxable.

And I think the rules are the same everywhere in EU.

I will have to look into this though.

[borat]

get the sender to label it as a gift and write on the label that the value is less than £250(somewhere around that for the uk) and customs should not touch it, i have done this many times with no duty being charged from hong kong and nutrients from the US but i am not sure how you stand if it gets lost or damaged and it has been undervalued, still with the price difference who cares?