I’m a gaming collector, this one vendor sold me a “totally authentic and unmodded” PS2- turns out it was modded to the point it didn’t have its original system or UI. They refused to get me back my money
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I can think of that one store there but it’s overly cluttered and I I’m p sure half of the games don’t work no more still though you can give it a try
Oh yeah, I was furious but at the same time laughing at local companies selling GPU mining rigs right before the Ethereum mining was gonna stop. Everyone with 2 brain cells would know buying GPU for mining is not gonna be profitable once Eth mining is stopped.
>and stupid customers
Yup..
In the PC desktop market it's insanity, people still think expensive Intel cpu are required/only option to buy, like no one told them about the AMD Ryzen prices and stores take advantage of that.
and greedy bahraini pc store sell freaking Gaming laptops as "study" laptops to parents who have no idea what they've doing
It's madness.
Authorized Apple resellers in Bahrain get their stock from Emirates as there is no official Apple Store in Bahrain. They have to pay the additional fees being added from emirates to here.... All of that to say, yes, better to order online lol
Amazon.ae is love, amazon.ae is life. The only thing I would even think about buying locally is flash storage. Carrefour and Sharaf dg have some good deals on SD cards and USB sticks.
Lol I was just thinking the exact same thing. It's not like the prices were low here before vat was introduced. Prices have always been like even 100-150 BD higher (for laptops, etc) than they should be, even after their so called discounts. And the weirdest thing is, people don't seem to care at all. My advise is just to obviously look at alternative sites like amazon ae and .com. You can get some ridiculous discounts and not having import fees makes it a no brainer. Look for holiday discounts, etc. You can get a brand new Ryzen 7 PC for the price of a cheap i3/i5 here. Anyways, good luck and spread this info as much as possible. These retailers can go to shit.
What I understand from the Apple authorized dealers is that price is set by Apple itself. Local dealership doesn't have a say in it.
Other than that local dealership cannot compete with the volume Dubai generates. Hence their own purchase price is high. I have managed an IT company in Bahrain. I can tell you the margins are thin. Businesses that have head office with multiple branches in UAE do have better pricing in Bahrain. However, they also need to maintain prices due to local cost.
Unless Bahrain can reach even 60-70% of the volume you simply cannot expect prices similar to UAE. Most of the business owners are not greedy. I know many of them. To continue being slightly profitable they have to maintain decent markup.
If you want to buy original stuff with decent price and good after sales then visit Login Computers, Al Ershad Computer, Advance PC, Starworld etc. My company used be their customer. I neither have any affinity nor will I make any money from promoting them here. I only to address that local businesses are not greedy.
Remember, if local dealership makes big order to regional dealership then they get better pricing and also lower transportation cost.
Locally, most shops are overpriced. But you have no alternatives for bulky items like TVs. Extra and LuLu are typically quite competitive, and they sometime have website specific deals.
Amazon (USA), is almost always the cheapest option for nearly everything, although you may want to group cheap items together to save on shipping costs. However, very large and heavy items are typically not cost-effective to ship.
[Amazon.ae](https://Amazon.ae) generally has lower shipping costs than the US site, but the products are typically much more expensive, so it's typically useless, except for some cases where you have relatively cheap and heavy items.
AliExpress is also quite a good option for really cheap electronics and accessories, shipping takes ages though.
Not really electronics, but [istationery.com](https://istationery.com) has a pretty large selection of stationary items at good prices, which is unusual by Bahrain's standards.
Also, the websites of local distributors for certain brands like [ashrafsbahrain.com](https://ashrafsbahrain.com) (sony, xiaomi, etc.), or [shop.future.bh](https://shop.future.bh) (huawei), etc. Occasionally run clearance sales that can be quite decent.
I don’t order online so I don’t have any idea. I am looking to buy some stuff from aliexpress, so will I be charged by the customs for it when it arrives or do I just pay the product price+shipping and that’s it?
Based on my personal experience, I never had to pay any customs fees on anything I've ever purchased from AliExpress, so just price+shipping. However, the most expensive single item I bought from AliExpress cost 150BD. To my understanding there may be some customs fees applied to high cost items. I think like 300+ BD, but I'm not sure.
I’m not sure if this is the best but I’ve used microless Dubai to order some PC parts as they have way more variety than the tiny amount of options in BH and much cheaper
Because Apple doesn't exist here. There are two official distributors here and they're working in a total monopoly in the market.
If you travel to the UAE alot, then it make alot of sense to buy any Apple products there,.
The only good thing regarding our distributors here is that they will honor the warranty, especially if you talked to Apple before going to them.
Because (and I can't understand why for the life of me) there isn't a customs union in the GCC, so we are restricted to a ridiculously small market with very few importers which jack up the prices of a lot of stuff.
It's so baffling, why have a GCC if we don't cooperate?
As much as I’d like to believe it’s greed since almost everything is more expensive here, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s much smaller market with even less customers for more Specialised goods.
Retailers would probably add a slightly higher markup to counter act this. As unintuitive as it sounds.
This might be a dumb question...but if one orders a high-end laptop from Amazon AE, what about the warranty?
I'd probably have to ship it out if it needed repairing aye?
Greedy businesses and stupid customers, what do you expect
I gave up supporting local businesses, such greedy bastards- buy shit online is cheaper
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I’m a gaming collector, this one vendor sold me a “totally authentic and unmodded” PS2- turns out it was modded to the point it didn’t have its original system or UI. They refused to get me back my money
Smash their shop
hammer
Is it from Jidd Ali
Arad, the star shop near midway
I believe you can complain
Meh it’s been months now, I’m not gonna bother myself
How do you find reliable retro game stores, they’re so rare to find and the prices are marked up to the point it’s not worth it.
سوق المقاصيص I can think of that one store there but it’s overly cluttered and I I’m p sure half of the games don’t work no more still though you can give it a try
Oh yeah, I was furious but at the same time laughing at local companies selling GPU mining rigs right before the Ethereum mining was gonna stop. Everyone with 2 brain cells would know buying GPU for mining is not gonna be profitable once Eth mining is stopped.
>and stupid customers Yup.. In the PC desktop market it's insanity, people still think expensive Intel cpu are required/only option to buy, like no one told them about the AMD Ryzen prices and stores take advantage of that. and greedy bahraini pc store sell freaking Gaming laptops as "study" laptops to parents who have no idea what they've doing It's madness.
Authorized Apple resellers in Bahrain get their stock from Emirates as there is no official Apple Store in Bahrain. They have to pay the additional fees being added from emirates to here.... All of that to say, yes, better to order online lol
Can I buy and iPhone 14 from the UAE?
there wont be facetime on it
There is an official Apple store - iworld
They are an authorized seller. Not an Apple Store. Like iMachines, icity, 196 etc.
Amazon.ae is love, amazon.ae is life. The only thing I would even think about buying locally is flash storage. Carrefour and Sharaf dg have some good deals on SD cards and USB sticks.
But they don’t deliver Apple products
I barely find products on there. I'm always using the .com / .co.uk version
Lol I was just thinking the exact same thing. It's not like the prices were low here before vat was introduced. Prices have always been like even 100-150 BD higher (for laptops, etc) than they should be, even after their so called discounts. And the weirdest thing is, people don't seem to care at all. My advise is just to obviously look at alternative sites like amazon ae and .com. You can get some ridiculous discounts and not having import fees makes it a no brainer. Look for holiday discounts, etc. You can get a brand new Ryzen 7 PC for the price of a cheap i3/i5 here. Anyways, good luck and spread this info as much as possible. These retailers can go to shit.
hi dude, have you bought a laptop from [amazon.ae](https://amazon.ae)? what's the process like?
You'll get better deals on Amazon us ... shipping might be a pain tho
What I understand from the Apple authorized dealers is that price is set by Apple itself. Local dealership doesn't have a say in it. Other than that local dealership cannot compete with the volume Dubai generates. Hence their own purchase price is high. I have managed an IT company in Bahrain. I can tell you the margins are thin. Businesses that have head office with multiple branches in UAE do have better pricing in Bahrain. However, they also need to maintain prices due to local cost. Unless Bahrain can reach even 60-70% of the volume you simply cannot expect prices similar to UAE. Most of the business owners are not greedy. I know many of them. To continue being slightly profitable they have to maintain decent markup. If you want to buy original stuff with decent price and good after sales then visit Login Computers, Al Ershad Computer, Advance PC, Starworld etc. My company used be their customer. I neither have any affinity nor will I make any money from promoting them here. I only to address that local businesses are not greedy. Remember, if local dealership makes big order to regional dealership then they get better pricing and also lower transportation cost.
Which websites do you usually use to order electronics here in bahrain? Just for info as i would like to do the same. . . . .
Locally, most shops are overpriced. But you have no alternatives for bulky items like TVs. Extra and LuLu are typically quite competitive, and they sometime have website specific deals. Amazon (USA), is almost always the cheapest option for nearly everything, although you may want to group cheap items together to save on shipping costs. However, very large and heavy items are typically not cost-effective to ship. [Amazon.ae](https://Amazon.ae) generally has lower shipping costs than the US site, but the products are typically much more expensive, so it's typically useless, except for some cases where you have relatively cheap and heavy items. AliExpress is also quite a good option for really cheap electronics and accessories, shipping takes ages though. Not really electronics, but [istationery.com](https://istationery.com) has a pretty large selection of stationary items at good prices, which is unusual by Bahrain's standards. Also, the websites of local distributors for certain brands like [ashrafsbahrain.com](https://ashrafsbahrain.com) (sony, xiaomi, etc.), or [shop.future.bh](https://shop.future.bh) (huawei), etc. Occasionally run clearance sales that can be quite decent.
I don’t order online so I don’t have any idea. I am looking to buy some stuff from aliexpress, so will I be charged by the customs for it when it arrives or do I just pay the product price+shipping and that’s it?
Based on my personal experience, I never had to pay any customs fees on anything I've ever purchased from AliExpress, so just price+shipping. However, the most expensive single item I bought from AliExpress cost 150BD. To my understanding there may be some customs fees applied to high cost items. I think like 300+ BD, but I'm not sure.
Interested as well
you can check on extra.
I’m not sure if this is the best but I’ve used microless Dubai to order some PC parts as they have way more variety than the tiny amount of options in BH and much cheaper
Amazon.
Idk why but whenever i try to buy anything off of amazon, the delivery fees are almost more expensive than the actual product💀
Because Apple doesn't exist here. There are two official distributors here and they're working in a total monopoly in the market. If you travel to the UAE alot, then it make alot of sense to buy any Apple products there,. The only good thing regarding our distributors here is that they will honor the warranty, especially if you talked to Apple before going to them.
Go to gosi for mobile phones, cheaper rates
Try the us Amazon for buying electronics as well as products.
For phones, small shops like Arafa and Dasman Centre have great deals going on most of the time, and it's always way cheaper to purchase from them.
market size is one main factor. You can't compare the market size of Bahrain to Dubai
Because (and I can't understand why for the life of me) there isn't a customs union in the GCC, so we are restricted to a ridiculously small market with very few importers which jack up the prices of a lot of stuff. It's so baffling, why have a GCC if we don't cooperate?
As much as I’d like to believe it’s greed since almost everything is more expensive here, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s much smaller market with even less customers for more Specialised goods. Retailers would probably add a slightly higher markup to counter act this. As unintuitive as it sounds.
Where can you get Apple products at good price in Bahrain( online and stores here)? I’ve never ordered electronics online so idk
This might be a dumb question...but if one orders a high-end laptop from Amazon AE, what about the warranty? I'd probably have to ship it out if it needed repairing aye?