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Going to New York - cheap CPUs ?

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I'm going to New York soon and I've been thinking of upgrading to a quad core CPU - so is it worth bringing one back ? - I've no idea where to go shopping etc.

Any thoughts / ideas ?.
 
newegg is what a lot of people seem to mention on international forums, seems super cheap for things like iaudio mp3 players (half our price!)
 
Dont know how feasible that would be to do.
Would the hotel let you have deliverys to there?

Radio shack and Frys are allways mentioned on american forums?
 
There only cheap because you don't have to pay 17.5% Vat, when you go through customs you probally have to declare your items? i.e. import fees etc? not sure?

Just look up computer stores in New York at a guess, their is bound to be a few.

Not sure where Newegg, Frys, Tiger Direct are situated to be honest, you would have to check them out.

PS: Before the mods start being stupid, you can't consider them competitors as they don't do International shipping - fact!
 
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I might be wrong but if you buy it in a store you visit rather than have it delivered from an online store in another state wont you have to pay state tax? Although you could claim it back you would probably end up declairing it and therefore paying import tax.
 
dont declare anything, no-one will ask you or care, unless you carry it in hand lug

anyone who says otherwise doesnt know wtf they are talking about.
 
platinum87 said:
dont declare anything, no-one will ask you or care, unless you carry it in hand lug

anyone who says otherwise doesnt know wtf they are talking about.
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Unless you get stopped going through the green line/nothing to declare (they actually do sometimes do random spot checks).

If you are buying something internationally, you won't be able to test it either, you may get it back here and it's faulty and then it costs you the earth to return it too (has happened!).
 
oh and I do know wtf I am talking about. I lived in South Africa for a long time and often shopped to and from both sides. I was stopped once in like 40 trips for a spot check - all they found was an oil filter I was importing for a friend at the time ....
 
last time i was in the US and tried to buy something from Newegg, they told me i couldn't unless i had a US credit card and US address to ship it to (don't know if hotel counts).

as for customs. take whatever you have out of its box and tell them you've had for ages. they've got no proof you didn't buy it in th eUK.
 
I'm in a similar situation as I'm going to NY soon and have been reading up on the factual can's and can't with regards buying and bringing back.

1) You can buy up to £140 of merchandise (based on UK RRP, not what you paid for the item) without having to pay VAT even if you declare it. A rubbishly small amount I know, but it's planned to rise to £285 some time this year.

2) If you're caught they can charge a fine, customs charges and VAT, if you've taken it out of the packaging and claim to have bought it in the UK previously they can hold your goods until you provide proof of purchase.

3) there are rules with regarding you saying that merch was bought for you as a gift / you have bought it as a gift for someone in the UK. But I'm still not entirely sure what it entails.

In short, it's a crap system and extremely annoying that we can't simply buy what we want without having to pay the greedies their 'rightful cut'. In reality you could walk through nothing to declare with £1k worth of stuff and get away with it, or you could end up with a hefty fine and bill for VAT+charges, up to you if you fancy gambling :/

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/best-buy-usa - Good info about halfway down the page.
 
I would take my chances 99.9% of getting away with it, Uk customs are crap, lets face it they have trouble spotting a truck full of illegal immigrants I hardly think they will spot a tiny cpu hidden away in your suitcase :-))
 
mr griffin said:
I would take my chances 99.9% of getting away with it, Uk customs are crap, lets face it they have trouble spotting a truck full of illegal immigrants I hardly think they will spot a tiny cpu hidden away in your suitcase :-))
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Trust me if they do check you, they check you properly. They take your laptop as apart as it can go. Some of these guys actually do know what they are doing too.
 
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