Anywhere selling computer components?

[TrickyFox]

They're not cheap though. A Crucial 500x500GB  SSD direct from Crucial or Amazon UK is €68 delivered, same product from PCComponentes is €83.

What I was looking at - motherboard and processor, are on a par with Amazon.de. Granted the SSD i was looking at was a little more expensive.

[TrickyFox]

Do you get charged import duty?

PCComponentes handles everything for you...

Prices on their site include the mainland 21% IVA.

When you checkout, put in a canary address and they will remove the 21% Mainland IVA  and add the 7% Canary tax instead.

So what you pay online will be the absolute final price delivered to your door.

https://www.pccomponentes.com/soporte/en...a-canarias

So no import duty?

[McAdam]

They're not cheap though. A Crucial 500x500GB  SSD direct from Crucial or Amazon UK is €68 delivered, same product from PCComponentes is €83.

Amazon UK Price is £65.22 == €73.08 excluding delivery
PCComponentes is €83.07 including everything delivered to your door.
Amazon.es with shipping to Canary, removal of mainland tax, Order summary
Products: € 68.59
Shipping: € 11.98
Deposit of import fees: € 22.56
Total: € 103.13

For some things their price is not as good, but when you factor in the taxes, delivery and import duties then they might be equal.

For larger items they often beat the prices by quite a bit.

TrickyFox Wrote: so no import duty?

There is import duty, but its included in the price already, they will pay it directly when their truck comes to the islands.
Again, what you pay online is the total price.

If you are looking for a specific model MB + Processor tell me which and I will add to cart to see total price.

Example before canary tax calc:
Western Digital Black SN750 NVMe 1TB SSD M.2 PCI Express 3.0
209 , € 89

Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro
1,279,90 €

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6GHz BOX
325 , € 90

TOTAL: € 815.69


After Canary tax and shipping

Articles:€ 721.31
Shipping:€ 11.95
TOTAL:€ 733.26

And it clearly says on the shipping page "Customs expenses included in shipments to the Canary Islands"

(I would have done a direct amazon comparison but some items are not available on amazon.es)

[TrickyFox]

They're not cheap though. A Crucial 500x500GB  SSD direct from Crucial or Amazon UK is €68 delivered, same product from PCComponentes is €83.

Amazon UK Price is £65.22 == €73.08 excluding delivery
PCComponentes is €83.07 including everything delivered to your door.
Amazon.es with shipping to Canary, removal of mainland tax, Order summary
Products: € 68.59
Shipping: € 11.98
Deposit of import fees: € 22.56
Total: € 103.13

At Amazon you only pay deposit of import fees on expedited delivery I think.
I just bought a Seagate 8tb hard drive for less than £140. They actually sent the wrong one - an Ironwolf model (list price nearly £225). I paid €38.40 to DHL and Amazon refunded £40 - I think I did rather well.

[McAdam]

At Amazon you only pay deposit of import fees on expedited delivery I think.
I just bought a Seagate 8tb hard drive for less than £140. They actually sent the wrong one - an Ironwolf model (list price nearly £225). I paid €38.40 to DHL and Amazon refunded £40 - I think I did rather well.

My motto is: find what works for you, and do it.

If you feel that Amazon is cheaper or offers more value then great!
Just order from wherever and build up that PC

Some things I order from Amazon, some local, some from small sites in Germany or the US. Each one has its plus and minus.

[TrickyFox]

At Amazon you only pay deposit of import fees on expedited delivery I think.
I just bought a Seagate 8tb hard drive for less than £140. They actually sent the wrong one - an Ironwolf model (list price nearly £225). I paid €38.40 to DHL and Amazon refunded £40 - I think I did rather well.

My motto is: find what works for you, and do it.

If you feel that Amazon is cheaper or offers more value then great!
Just order from wherever and build up that PC

Some things I order from Amazon, some local, some from small sites in Germany or the US. Each one has its plus and minus.

I'm not saying that Amazon is the be all and end all just that I think I got a bargain this time. It was a hassle though and took forever (seemed like it anyway). No, when I am ready I will try PC componentes, thanks.

[McAdam]

I'm not saying that Amazon is the be all and end all just that I think I got a bargain this time. It was a hassle though and took forever (seemed like it anyway). No, when I am ready I will try PC componentes, thanks.

That does seem like a good price.

I know that hassle pain all too well. I've had so many orders canceled or severely delayed, costing me business and reputation with customers here.

Good luck with your purchase!
What are you building by the way?

[TrickyFox]

I know that hassle pain all too well. I've had so many orders canceled or severely delayed, costing me business and reputation with customers here.

Good luck with your purchase!
What are you building by the way?

Well we got rid of our imacs as they were getting a bit long in the tooth and couldn't really afford to buy new ones of a decent spec. Best we could do at the time (we wanted stuff in a hurry) was to get the best processor system we could from Electron. As there is not much choice we bought an Acer with an i7 chip and I changed the graphics card, memory, hard drive and added an ssd.
My wife uses a lots of storage space. She had a 4tb int hd in addition to 4x3tb ext, but wanted even more so we bought the 8tb.
The Acer has very little space inside so I thought I could just buy a new case and shift everything into that - WRONG. The Acer has a proprietary mobo and it won't fit into another case (which I had already bought). So the 8tb drive is currently sitting in an external caddy and took some time to get a back up working.
It seems to be working OK but my idea was to get a new motherboard and processor (and maybe an nvme ssd) for the case and use the existing graphics card (EVGA nvidia 1060) and the 32gb RAM she has.
I do wonder if the upgrade path I originally used on the Acer was pointless due to its 'propriatariness' (new word) and there may be bottlenecks in the system.
The reason we went for a windows machine was upgradeability, which has proven almost impossible with the ACER.

[McAdam]

Ah yes, the world of propriety screw locations and connections can be really really frustrating.

In general the memory should be fine in any modern motherboard. But I would suggest getting a new power supply to go into the new case. Built-in ones can often be missing certain cables or have odd connectors on them.


Seems like your wife needs a lot of storage. Is she doing photo/video work?
An alternative could be to buy a NAS (Network Storage) device that will mean you can fill it with HDDs and just access over the network. It would save having to get bigger cases and can offer expandability down the line. I would recommend looking at the Synology line of NAS's for minimal complications but great future-proofing.

Depending on what work she does, you could go for an AMD based processor/motherboard to get more bang for your buck.

I do a lot of 4k Video Work and run an AMD 3700x, RTX 2070 super with a super-fast 2TB NVMe - in a case the size of an A4 paper (for travel).
But all my long term storage is off-site on my NAS in a Datacentre in Germany. I have good internet speeds here so if I ever need anything it's quick to download again.

[milestone11]

They're not cheap though. A Crucial 500x500GB  SSD direct from Crucial or Amazon UK is €68 delivered, same product from PCComponentes is €83.

Amazon UK Price is £65.22 == €73.08 excluding delivery
PCComponentes is €83.07 including everything delivered to your door.
Amazon.es with shipping to Canary, removal of mainland tax, Order summary
Products: € 68.59
Shipping: € 11.98
Deposit of import fees: € 22.56
Total: € 103.13

For some things their price is not as good, but when you factor in the taxes, delivery and import duties then they might be equal.

For larger items they often beat the prices by quite a bit.

Sorry, you're wrong. Below is Amazon UK. Anything ordered from Amazon.es is 20-30% dearer than any other Amazon base. Provided an order is not exceeding €150,(inc shipping),  therefore not generating tax, it is never a viable proposition to by from .es. They always place the order elsewhere anyway.


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Order Total: EUR 68,04
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