Hi Pete
> If you could get him to do it we could avoid the vat and the fees by
>having them sent as a gift and the shipping could be done very
>economically by UPS. But what about the testing and the possible
>returns/duff sticks. Can he do the testing?
I don't think he'd be able to test as he's not got a Mac.
> If not it's perhaps better to have it delivered to one address in
>the UK from which returns can be made after testing?
I'll probably be ordering separately as I need to have proper
receipts for everything I buy being self-employed and its for my
"work" machine. (will make doing me accounts less difficult too.)
> My impression from the Supermacs list is that there is a failure
>rate of 15/20%. OWC - where I bought my last lot of ram - is more
>reliable but also more expensive and two of the six mods were not as
>ordered but I managed to pass them on. Not so with bad ram - nobody needs
>bad sticks.
> I have also emailed VU with no response as yet - but I will purchase
I just got an auto response, the wire transfer sounds like it could
be a very pricey option, for possibly iffy RAM.
>possibly 2/4 sticks for certain from somewhere - and I have GaugePro to
>test it overnight. I just wanted to defray the cost of shipping for
>myself and anyone else who is ram challenged heh,heh.
Currently we have the following contenders for 5V 128 FPM DIMMs:
owc - 54.97 US per DIMM
26.50 US shipping to UK
(10 US off shipping if order is over 250 US....)
mac mart - 59 US per DIMM
35 US shipping to UK
memoryX - 77 US per DIMM
18 US shipping to UK
I tend to go for the "second tier" prices when buying stuff, that way
you know the company is making *some* profit and corners are less
likely to be cut by them.
Regards
Neil
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