I want to build/buy a gaming PC, monitor and a keyboard. The MSRP ballpark is something around 50k NTD. What’s the best approach on getting discounts on these? just walk to shops and try to get discounts? PChome?
Also, how complicated is it to get stuff shipped here from Amazon? Do they just ask for the tax when they deliver?
Amazon will charge tax handling on purchase and refund whatever was left. Don’t need to pay anything when you receive the package.
I made a list or components, then went around Zhongxiao Xinsheng asking prices in all the shops. If you pay in cash you can normally get a bit of a discount too.
Oh that’s simpler than I thought. Do they deliver to 7-11s?
Go to the Guanhua computer market. They have everything you need for gaming.
Don’t try shipping computer components from Amazon or the states because Taiwan is a bit weird about anything with Wifi capability that isn’t a personal item. I hear they have really high tax or you need some weird permit or something.
Thanks, good to know. Do they have any date specific sales? like Black Friday, Single’s Day or Cyber Monday? Or just the haggling discount?
I’ve worked briefly at one of those store before… let’s just say you will NOT get any discounts on any core components (motherboard, RAM, video cards, CPU, or Hard drives) because the profit on those are like 50nt a piece. I don’t know who gets all the money but it’s not these store or those who work there. What you can haggle on is stuff like power supplies, keyboards, mouse, etc. because those are very high profit items. Same with inkjet refill kits…
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Pay with cash at coolpc and they did give a discount, just ask. Cash only, no credit. Built a 110k my PC about a year ago, bought parts from them, paid just over 100k. Not a huge discount but a discount.
If you need help and are in KSH area hit me up, I’m a system engineer by day and been building gaming rigs for over 17 years.
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I usually look at prices on this stores website
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Never use this. Prices are terrible. You’ll find the best deals on shopee or ruten. No need to ship stuff from overseas either.
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Coolpc is also great. I was able to get a 2080ti the day it came out and got a free keyboard and mouse with it.
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Yea they are pretty good, spend enough and get a discount, both on last 3 gaming PC’s from them in the last 4 years.
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When I bought my desktop 6 years ago I made the list of stuff I wanted on CoolPC to have an idea of the price. Then I went to Sunfar and built a similar one. The price at Sunfar was a bit higher but we’re talking 5%, and I was glad to pay that extra amount to have everything built and delivered by them + whole pc warranty.
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Ah man, you should have found me. I would build it for free. Building them is my hobby.
CoolPC would have given you a discount and built it for free aswell, could have saved 8-10% 
I only buy my parts from them, all the parts are under warranty anyway.
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What kind of system do you want to build? Have you decided on the specs?
Sort of, I wanted to go with:
CPU: Ryzen2600x
MOBO: B450m pro VDH plus
RAM: G.skill Trident Z 16gb DDR4
SSD: Samsung EVO 860 (500GB)
HDD: Something something
GPU: 2060 EVGA XC Gaming
PSU: Seasonic SSR450
Monitor: Samsung U32J590UQE
But I’m gonna wait for Computex. Looks like Ryzen3000 is going to be a big leap, so I might be able to future-proof my CPU.
Navi GPU architecture is going to be introduced as well but I doubt it would a gamechanger.
Damn, and that costs 50k??
With those specs might be better with an NVMe SSD?
I wish you the best of luck in future proofing your CPU 
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Yeah, but also that includes 12400 NTD for a monitor and 1890 for keyboard. I didn’t cheap out on anything either.