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New PC hardware prices site
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 1:15 am
by alku83
Hey guys,
Just thought I'd let you know that myself and a friend have started up a new hardware pricing service called PC Price Patrol. I know lots of you out there are modders, and I'm sure there are lots of geeks out there, so hopefully this will be of some interest!
Basically the site just offers a monthly newsletter on the cheapest hardware prices in Australia, as well as a few interesting articles along with it. We are looking to also track stats for product prices, such as the monthly price difference. There's a forum in place and we're hoping to build it up to be a decent hardware discussion zone.
The Site and newsletter are currently in Beta testing stage at the moment, so please forgive any glitches, but over the next couple of weeks we'll be adding more content and beefing the site up, so for now feel free to take a look and let us know what we can add to improve it.
Check it out here:
http://pcpricepatrol.dyndns.org/
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 12:01 pm
by FTO338
Hey that’s a good thing you got going there, but I’ve just got a few questions
It the pricing purely base on price? As there are few problems I’m aware with some shops that are "super cheap"
1. Grey imports (No Australia warranty)
2. Re-badge products (e.g. Acer burners re-badge as Pioneer
)
3. After sales services (I’ve had heap of compliant about certain retailers that charges customer for handling fee from $35-$60 for return warranty)
4. Stock availability, as some of the shop advertises under cost but never have them in stock.
These are base on my experience as an Area Manager for a finance company who looks after 90% of the I.T retailers, SME, & large corporate in Australia & N.Z.
You pay what you get, I usually rather pay a little bit more for all my things, knowing that I’ll get the after sales service & the products are genuine.
And yeah there’re like 70% of the members here have an I.T related job, so its great place to start ehehehe
Just my 2 cents
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:02 pm
by Bennoz
Hehehehe... FTO338, you are describing my local part bloke down to the letter...
He's dirt cheap, can't speak a word of English, never has the bit your after - even if it is on his price list, its ALL grey imports & they're return policies a sh_tty at best.
Not that I mind - Im a full time nerd myself. If its breaks, I fix it...
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:11 pm
by Bennoz
And alku83, if your interested the company is called MSY. Based in Sydney, you can look 'em up on the web for a price list. Gotta love a 17" flatscreen for 300 bucks
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:49 pm
by FTO338
Actually MSY started off in Melbourne heehehe but I already warn you guys
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 9:59 pm
by onnzo
I just went to buy some stuff from MSY on the weekend!
They advertised 2 * 512mb of carsair ddr ram for $150 - went there and guess what.. they were out! So I opted for samsung instead.
I also bought a pioneer 109 dvd burner for $69 - I hope it wasn't rebadged!!!
And yeah I saw some sweet 17" LG lcd's for $300 - i'm tempted!
Does anyone know anything about pc hdtv tuners? Any brands/features you can recommend?
Mike
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:34 pm
by FTO338
Fusion HDTV card is pretty good, so you might want to try that.
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:55 pm
by jester
hey onnzo
Did u go to the MSY outlet in Malvern?
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:56 pm
by jester
hey onnzo
Did u go to the MSY outlet in Malvern?
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 12:00 am
by Bennoz
Hehe.. shady asians...
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 4:13 pm
by FTO338
look out boy, theres lots of asian in this forum hehehe
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 4:54 pm
by Bennoz
One of my best mates is a shady asian hehehe... his misses does a super stir fry
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 5:44 pm
by paladin
mm this could be useful (as a reseller and a site tech) ill forward the list on to my boss
(stay the hell away from the dodgy stuff! we had some experances where when we checked serial numbers, it was warrenty returned goods seen unfit to return for sale... god knows how long it will last)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 5:51 pm
by Bennoz
But its so tempting and cheap!
Was getting some gear just the other day & the guy was unwrapping a pallet (in the showroom floor - real proffesional like) of 5.1 channel, Creative labs speaker kits - not a word of english on the box.... for $90!!
Who was I to refuse!
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 5:56 pm
by paladin
did you check the voltage and power connectors? its kinda importent
Re: .
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 5:59 pm
by onnzo
jester wrote:hey onnzo
Did u go to the MSY outlet in Malvern?
Yeah I did... in a white FTO... why?
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 6:13 pm
by Bennoz
paladin wrote:did you check the voltage and power connectors? its kinda importent
Indeed I did. Im not that green - do work in the industry
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 6:32 pm
by alku83
Grrr, some script kiddies decided to hammer us with DOS attacks. We'll be back up in a day or two, I'll reply to everyone's comments then...
Oh and by the way, MSY is not as cheap as you might think
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 7:38 pm
by Supplanter
The last time I went to MSY Malvern the queue was out the door
Mind you, three quaters of the shop floor is taken up by towers of computer equipment.
And it took half an hour to get to the desk
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 11:53 pm
by onnzo
Yeah that shop is shite for service...
Alku83, If MSY's not that cheap, tell us where is!!!
I want to get a hdtv card
Mike