What's the Newegg of the EU? (2024)

I always bought my computer hardware from Danish websites. But noticed they haven't gotten Haswell yet for some reason (probably a question of a few days), I kinda got thinking. Why not take advantage of the EU single market?

Why pay the 25% Danish tax? And the 2 year warranty is the same EU wide.

So far I found Mindfactory.de as the best candidate so far. Doing a pricecheck with the i4670k, Newegg sells it for 249.99USD excluding tax, where Mindfactory sells it for 275USD (but including 19% German tax).

I looked at dabs.co.uk. But they were /not/ resonably priced. 434USD including tax for the same CPU, couldn't be bothered if they delivered full EU after seeing that.

Anyone know of a better one, that does full EU delivery? (personally I'd prefer if the language was English, German or Scandinavian, but that's just me).

Excuse me if this is the wrong forum. Couldn't find one that really fit, other than the lounge perhaps?

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To clarify for non-EU citizens. All prices in EU are including tax, and I will be paying them to the originating country. Just if you were courious.

I usualy do the pricecheck on geizhals.de and then try to force the price on the local computer salesmen Geizhals has a very good selector, you can even choose the TV by it's case dimensions

Pixmania is present in quite a few countries. I've used electronic4you and ditech for some stuff. I order things in and pay on pickup. Driving from Ljubljana to Klagenfurt/Celovec takes around 45 minutes. Trip to Ikea usualy solves the "how much is the petrol gonna cost" canundrum

I also use Geizhals.de and pick the best price from vendor(s) with a decent reputation (lower numbers are better).

Check shipping costs & terms carefully. Most German vendors put a "versand" or "versandkosten" link next to the product price:
MindFactory will add €29.99 per package for delivery in European countries outside Germany: "Die Versandkosten in EU-Staaten betragen € 29,99 pro Paket, inkl. 19% UST." So an i5-4670K costs €204.65 + €29.99 = €234.64 shipped.
Others may charge more for the CPU but less for shipping. For example Cyberport want €219.90 for the CPU but just €10.99 shipping to Denmark = €230.89

For UK, no Newegg equivalent just a bunch of bigger retailers. I'd second Scan as best for stock and can say they have been reasonable to deal with IME. Aria and Novatech seem to have better customer service but not quite the product range. QuietPC are good in their niche. Other than those, the only one I could recommend would be Misco, and not on price. Amazon is Amazon.

I've used most of the rest of the UK parts retailers, often quite a lot, and have nothing positive to say.

Geizhals.de is excellent, very granular search options.

The postage costs is worth considering. I'll also have to check whether the package will be delivered by DHL/UPS or ordinary Danish postal service. DHL/UPS is not really that useable for me since they kinda just bugger off with your package if they don't catch you at home.

I think I'll be paying 25% tax on Pixmania sales by virtue of them being present in Denmark. Might skew it a bit. Though I had a friend who ordered from them with success.

Scan looked nice, but seems to be UK only.

My experience so far is that there isnt really a pan-European Newegg equivalent. Typically you end up going niche in each particular product segment you are looking to buy in,

DSG/Dixons Retail Group has a very wide position accross Europe, operating under many online brands, eg PIxmania, PC World, Curry's etc and in some of Scandinavia under the Giganti, Elkjop and Lefdal names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixons_Retail

However, each one has very different product range and none have what I'd call great service. No idea why DSG bothers to own all these assets and run them so crapplily and separately.

If you don't mind a dutch site: http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/

It is awesome, i don't know if they ship to Denmark but you never know

I'm going to be ordering from http://www.bj-trading.dk/ , which is obviously a Danish company.

But being able to check out other webshops prices was very satisfying, because I learned that B.J.Trading is apparently equally priced BEFORE I figure in that they have free delivery vs. having to pay postage across Europe. It makes me feel more satisfied with what I buy, knowing that I got a good price.

I know, that's why I made an effort of spelling it out.

I'm sure they have huge plans for their expansion in the English speaking markets.