buying computers online

gillcat

Not sure if this is the right place I'm a newby!!!

Wondered if anyone knew of a way to haggle online? my partner is building a new computer from scratch, buying all the components and screens keyboards etc. This amounts to quite a lot of money and I wondered if there was any way to get a discount. can anyone help?

aliEnRIK

If hes buying them all from the same place then send them an email. I haggled buying an assortment of hifi cables with 20% discount AND no postage costs.

HOWEVER. if its ammounted to such a high cost, would it not be cheaper to buy a 'bare bones' pc (dell for example) then add to it afterwards?

[Deleted User]

I've head that it's possible to haggle with Dell over the phone

esuhl

Personally, I'd just shop around to get the cheapest prices (rather than trying to negotiate). Don't forget to have a look at www.quidco.com - there are quite a few suppliers of PC components who will give you cashback for being referred by them.

bob_a_builder

Check this site for current Dell deals

http://www.dmxdimension.com/

Conor_3

When you're paying £9 for 2GB of RAM, just how much room do you think there is for haggling?
Component prices at Aria/Scan et al are already at rock bottom and they have so many customers, they don't need to entertain discounts.

Airwolf1

Whenever I price up A Dell PC on their website, I always ring them up and start negotiating then. This has been successful all the time for me.

superscaper

Just to add to Conor's comment, it's possible to get free postage at Scan (which is what usually swings it for me), usually by being a member of the hexus forums (although I think there's one or two other forums, also requires minimum number of posts at forum).

gillcat

thanks everyone you have all given us some ideas. to reply to Conor we are not looking at just ram but a complete computer with 2 screens and another screen and keyboard so are talking quite a bit of money.

Conor_3

gillcat wrote: »

thanks everyone you have all given us some ideas. to reply to Conor we are not looking at just ram but a complete computer with 2 screens and another screen and keyboard so are talking quite a bit of money.

Not really. Whilst it may be a lot to you, they're doing £100,000's per day of trade. The amount of profit they make is in the region of the 3-5%.

Rock_Bottom

gillcat wrote: »

Not sure if this is the right place I'm a newby!!!

Wondered if anyone knew of a way to haggle online? my partner is building a new computer from scratch, buying all the components and screens keyboards etc. This amounts to quite a lot of money and I wondered if there was any way to get a discount. can anyone help?

Try getting some codes from the appropriate MSE board, that might help.