webshop i USA

[eien]

1. er det billigere i statene hvis du ikke tenker på moms og toll og slikt?

2. er det noen bra vebshopper derborte?

[Rayline TWB]

www.tigerdirect.com

[skagenNYC]

www.insidecomputer.com

[wizzcat]

Uten moms lønner det seg nok en del på datautstyr. Hvis du derimot regner inn frakt, moms og avgifter går nok vinninga opp i spinninga, prisene på datautstyr er ikke så over styr i Norge. Det kommer jo helt ann på produktet, men jeg har selv gode erfaringer med f.eks. kjøp av mp3-spillere som ofte er *mye* billigere i USA, kan av og til koste opp til det dobbelte. Det greieste er nok å lete litt rundt etter det spesifikke produktet. Jeg bruker som oftest shopping.yahoo.com og www.pricewatch.com. Det kan derimot være litt vanskelig å finne butikker som shipper til Norge, de butikkene må du nok lete litt etter.

 

Og så må du ikke glemme at hvis noe skulle gå i stykker kan det bli en del vanskeligere å få reparert. Hvet ikke hvordan reglene for reklamasjon og garanti er i USA, men jeg regner med at de er litt "snillere" i Norge.

 

Ebay er forresten også ganske greit. Har shoppa en del der, og ennå ikke hatt noen problemer. Mange som selger nye produkter og oftest veldig lettvint å avvikle. Også ganske lett å finne folk som sender Internasjonalt.

[skagenNYC]

Uten moms lønner det seg nok en del på datautstyr. Hvis du derimot regner inn frakt, moms og avgifter går nok vinninga opp i spinninga, prisene på datautstyr er ikke så over styr i Norge.

 

Og så må du ikke glemme at hvis noe skulle gå i stykker kan det bli en del vanskeligere å få reparert. Hvet ikke hvordan reglene for reklamasjon og garanti er i USA, men jeg regner med at de er litt "snillere" i Norge.

 

Sorry to write this in English, but its late night and its hard for me to write more than a few words of Norwegian when I'm tired.

 

USA is very different from Norway - we don't have so many laws regulating everything and even those laws we have are different for each state. The fewer laws and regulations makes it easier to trade and makes things cheaper, but of course you as the buyer take a bit more risk. That's the tradeoff.

 

I think it works very well for small items, which are cheap - and besides you don't use them for a long time. For bigger items it depends on how reliable you think it is. Particulary with laptops, I think the prices are so high here and the choices are wider there, so its worth it to import. Sure its nice to have a three year warranty - but the way I see it, if its really a good item, maybe I shouldn't expect it to break SO MUCH that I'm gonna actually get all my money's worth from the 3-year warranty included in the very high price here!!

 

SELLER REGULATIONS

Anyway, regarding the regulations: the only seller regulation which are roughly the same everywhere in USA are that:

1) The manufacturer must have some type of warranty included

2) The seller must tell you exactly the details of this warranty - if you ask

3) It is illegal for the seller to sell you used items as "new". But if the item is described by the seller as "Refurbished" or "As-is", then they have fulfilled their legal obligation to you.

 

If the item you buy is bad when you get it (DOA - "dead on arrival"). The seller must replace it. But most of them will ask you to pay the shipping back to them. Also its usually 7-10 day limit on DOA, so its tight on time, if you ship to Norway! BUt DOA is not common and the worst that can happen is you simply send it to the manufacturer under the warranty.

 

WARRANTY

Most PC's or laptops have 1 Year manufacturer warranty. YOU pay the freight to the manufacturer to fix, they pay to send it back. Very few PC/Laptops have 3 yr manufacturer warranty unless you pay extra for that (usually US$200-$400, depending on what it is).

 

FUJITSU is one of those few with a 3 year international warranty - also the Fujitsu warranty is to your home for the first year of the 3, and after you simply send it to their service center in Europe here. For most PC/Laptops the warranty is US, so you have to pay your own money to send it there if its a problem.

 

Also big computer/electronics sellers such as BestBuy www.bestbuy.comand CircuitCitywww.circuitcity sell very good extended warranties, some of which may include servicing/repair in Europe, depending on the item.

 

Most other items computer items/accesories have a 3 months to 6 months manufacturer warranty. The major exception is LCD screens - any reliable LCD screen will have a 3 yr warranty. That is mostly becuase a good LCD will not go bad. You might have a bad pixel when you get it, but other than that few problems and nothing changes. Most US manufactures will replace the LCD immediatelly if you have more than 5 bad pixels when you buy it. LCD screens are like significantly in the US, so those are very worth it to import - if you can get cheap shipping, of course.

 

FREIGHT/SHIPPING

As the person above said, the sellers wil often charge you very high prices for freight all the way to Norway, especially via Fedex or UPS. They make extra profits off foreigners because they assume that if you have to go all the way to a US seller, then your prices at home are very high and they have room to charge you more. Fedex and UPS prices are different for every customer, so you can never really find out how much extra profit they are making on freight.

 

The trick is that is the item is not very large or heavy, the US Post office (USPS) is much cheaper for freight and if an item is sent by airmail, it may only take 4-7 days to arrive in Norway. For maybe 2 days more time than Fed Exp, you will save huge shipping costs.

 

This website: http://ircalc.usps.gov/ gives you the exact US Post office shipping cost to Norway. You just need to know the approximate dimensions and weight of the package (in inches and pounds).

 

Small sellers will usually agree to send items by Post office, the bigger ones may not. But whoever you buy from, you can use the link above to ensure that you're not paying too much for shipping via post office.

 

There are A LOT of sharks out there with online websites in the US, but if you do some research with resellerratings, you can figure out the bad ones pretty easily - its not a question of them taking your money, its more a question of who will treat you badly if something is wrong with the item (eg don't use www.buy.com).

 

A lot of different information there, but I hope that is helpful....

[eien]

men noen gode alternativer ala komplett??

[TRS]

Newegg skal visst være bra men hva om noe skjer med en vare så ville det vel ta utrolig lang tid med tanke på bytting osv eller hva?