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"Trade PC Parts"

I build PCs, and, I am damn good at it. Nothing to be proud of I know as they are just big mans jigsaws with the chance of a slow painful death of a thousand cuts from that unrounded edge on your case. I have built countless PCs, all working perfectly with the best parts I could find, so no low-grade generic stuff you buy from PC World.

Anyway, I am looking for some genuine PC Component Wholesalers, whether its Disk Drives, CPUs, Memory, etc, I don't mind, as long as there is somewhere I can buy cheaply from to save money and increase my profit margin.

I have subscribed to countless supposed trade directories which list "Genuine" Wholesalers, which I have now given up on cos they are all scams, and most sites claimining to be trade are usually the same price as Ebuyer.

Ebuyer must buy from somewhere, those people on Ebay selling the gizillion 2500+ Bartons must buy from somewhere. But where!?

I was hinted by someone that they buy from off shore, so Asia/Malaysia/America, imports I expect. But even searching for "Asian PC Supplies" gives me nothing or just PI 20mhz Systems for an unbelievably low cost $500! lol.

Any help, links, etc would be more than grateful. I am a company, so signing up to trade accounts isn't an issue for me.


Thanks in advance,
Dan.

I build PCs, and, I am damn good at it. Nothing to be proud of I know as they are just big mans jigsaws with the chance of a slow painful death of a thousand cuts from that unrounded edge on your case. I have built countless PCs, all working perfectly with the best parts I could find, so no low-grade generic stuff you buy from PC World.

Anyway, I am looking for some genuine PC Component Wholesalers, whether its Disk Drives, CPUs, Memory, etc, I don't mind, as long as there is somewhere I can buy cheaply from to save money and increase my profit margin.

I have subscribed to countless supposed trade directories which list "Genuine" Wholesalers, which I have now given up on cos they are all scams, and most sites claimining to be trade are usually the same price as Ebuyer.

Ebuyer must buy from somewhere, those people on Ebay selling the gizillion 2500+ Bartons must buy from somewhere. But where!?

I was hinted by someone that they buy from off shore, so Asia/Malaysia/America, imports I expect. But even searching for "Asian PC Supplies" gives me nothing or just PI 20mhz Systems for an unbelievably low cost $500! lol.

Any help, links, etc would be more than grateful. I am a company, so signing up to trade accounts isn't an issue for me.


Thanks in advance,
Dan.

It's not so much the prices with wholesalers its all to do with the amount you buy, i think that ebuyers prices are on par with the wholesalers because they buy there stuff in mass and the suppliers reduce the prices, you would need to do this to reduce the price of the parts you use, There are loads of pc componant wholesalers out there but if you are not going to buy in bulk then you may even be better off purchasing from somewere like ebuyer (although the returns is slow) as they actually reduce the price when you buy more, they also probably get a lot of there stuff direct from manafacturers.

Colin

I buy my chieftec cases direct from the manufacturer, guess i'll just have to email the 20 or so people whos parts I use.