So I ordered a laptop over 40000 baht from Amazon..

[atyclb]

5 hours ago, kbelyeu said:

You know they sell stickers that can be placed on the existing English keys.

there are also very thin silicone thai key sheets that are placed on top of existing keypad. my gf's macbook has this

[Stocky]

9 hours ago, kbelyeu said:

Strange indeed, I paid 90,000 baht for a high end dell it was shipped using one of the US forwarding companies and passed straight through to my home (insured for full value).

Both my Dell laptops (v. high end) I had built to order through the Dell dealer in Bangkok, no need to order from abroad.

[atyclb]

4 hours ago, Stocky said:

Both my Dell laptops (v. high end) I had built to order through the Dell dealer in Bangkok, no need to order from abroad.

 

how are prices for dell thailand vs dell usa?

[Stocky]

47 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

how are prices for dell thailand vs dell usa?

After factoring in shipping costs, insurance and import duty it was still fractionally more expensive to purchase through Dell Thailand.

[atyclb]

1 hour ago, Stocky said:

After factoring in shipping costs, insurance and import duty it was still fractionally more expensive to purchase through Dell Thailand.

 

in addition

my experience is there is a wide selection of excellent used laptops on the north american market and even after shipping and vat it is still way better than the meager second hand overpriced thai market.

[daocat555]

I live in Thailand but have a US address with a shipping company called Shipito. You can enroll at Shipito for free and then you get your own USA shipping address.  Then, for example, buy a product at Amazon  or Ebay and have it sent to your Shipito suite address.  When the product arrives you tell Shipito the price for Thai Customs purposes, and then you have to pay shipping and handling charges to Shipito; and they will ship it to your Thai address.  You have your choice of what carrier for Shipito to send it to you, eg, USPS, DHL, FedEx.  I often buy clothes from Amazon, so I have the premium Shipito service which has a $50 annual fee; and for that I can get Shipito to combine my purchases into one box for shipping to Thailand, so I don't have to pay shipping for each product I buy individually; which you must do if you do not have the premium service.  But the basic service is free. Link to Shipito is below.

 

Shipito Forwarding Service

 

I bought a new laptop this year from Newegg Thailand which was competitively priced.  The Laptop was 24,938.99 baht and I had to pay 1,818.19 baht duty and 1,126.02 for express delivery at the time of purchase; which brought the total to 27,883.20 baht.  I think this was less expensive than buying the equivalent laptop from Amazon and shipping it via Shipito.  However the item is no longer available at Newegg.

 

For me, I wanted a gaming laptop with no hard drive at all; just SSD, because I don't require a lot of storage and I didn't want the weight and slowness of a combo hard drive/SSD.  That was the hardest thing about finding what I wanted on the Thai online sites.  They tend to have combo drives in their gaming laptops.

 

I got the Asus FX53VD-MS72 with i7 CPU, GeForce GTX 1050 graphics, and it has a RW DVD.  I use an external USB keyboard so I had to look just now to see if the laptops keyboard was Thai/English.  It is English only, as it was shipped from the Newegg US warehouse, which I guess is why I had to pay any duty at all.

 

I use the Samsung 27 inch LS27F350FHEXXT monitor which I like a lot and I bought from Lazada for 7,790 baht.  Just to mention my complete set up I use the Samsung HW-MS651 soundbar which I think is great and was 10,990 baht from Lazada.  And I use the USB Kensington Expert trackball.

 

So for 48,770 baht I have a set up I like a lot, cheaper than the price of the Razor laptop alone, and I'm interested in how much extra that is going to be in terms of fees and duty.

 

 In this case I ended up not using Shipito as I found all the components I wanted from Thai dealers, but for people who want a specific laptop (such as the Razor) I would say consider the service of Shipito.