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What are good online shops to buy computer parts.

Ebuyer.com used to be reasonably good but last year it went out of business.

"A winding up petition was issued against the company by their landlord on 1 August 2025 and the company was acquired out of administration by Frasers Group on 13 August 2025."

What remaining UK suppliers are there excluding places like ebay or amazon?

Scan.co.uk was one but they are hit or miss for example not properly packaging fragile products.

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  • Boohoo
    Boohoo Posts: 1,828 Forumite
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    edited 8 March at 5:01PM

    The way things are going with Ai most pc parts are getting expensive and the war in Middle East is not helping things for prices and supplies.

    If used parts your after try Cex as they have a 5 year warranty (don't know the t a C's) .

    If you go to https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/ as they give you the best price for a part and list the places you can buy from and you can also see what companies are about.

  • mksysb
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    You could try CCL Computers, I've used them before

    https://www.cclonline.com/

  • MattMattMattUK
    MattMattMattUK Posts: 12,778 Forumite
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    I have never had issues with scan.co.uk or overclockers.co.uk I have spent thousands with both on dozens of components, similarly with Amazon, although the occasional issue on there due to volume they always sort it out.

  • Neil_Jones
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    Amazon you can sometimes get effectively new items through what used to be the warehouse. They'll sometimes knock a bit off just because the packaging is damaged, but the item itself is brand new or virtually brand new.

    Although I did have an interesting situation once that Amazon claimed I'd sent something back, they'd received it, processed it and I would get a refund for it. The only problem was what they claimed I'd sent back was in active use at the time (think it was an SSD), and there was no mechanism to tell Amazon they've made a mistake, it was you've sent it back, here's your wonga, end of discussion now go away. So I got whatever the part was for effectively nothing through no fault or effort of my own. I can't remember if it was a Warehouse item or not. I suspect somebody typed/scanned in the wrong serial/item/part number into a computer at Amazon somewhere.

  • RumRat
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    Drinking Rum before 10am makes you
    A PIRATE
    Not an Alcoholic...!
  • chunter
    chunter Posts: 2,031 Forumite
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    edited 13 March at 10:33AM

    I just wondering why i hadn't got emails from the awful ebuyer.

    It seems they went t*ts up last year and are now a lot smaller.
    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/major-uk-pc-retailer-ebuyer-bought-out-of-administration-by-notorious-backer-pc-component-listings-mostly-nuked-in-favor-of-furniture-garish-iphone-cases-and-air-fryers-as-frasers-group-takes-the-helm
    Their customer service was second to everyone…including Sports Direct….

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