Buying Computer Accessories In Bangkok

[dancw3]

I recently moved to Bangkok. Where are some good places to buy computer accessories such as printers, routers, etc.?

[Gippy]

Pantip Plaza, Fortune Town, Laksi IT Square.

[craigt3365]

How about we move this over to the Internet, computers, communication, technology forum?

But the above reply pretty much gives you all you need. Pantip will keep you entertained for hours...if not days!

//Moved//

[mahtin]

My scanner / printer was cheaper in Tesco Lotus than the malls.

Porn DVD touts entertaining? Season's greetings.

[dancw3]

Pantip Plaza, Fortune Town, Laksi IT Square.

are any of these near MRT or BTS stops?

[mahtin]

Pantip Plaza, Fortune Town, Laksi IT Square.

are any of these near MRT or BTS stops?

Fortune is right next to Phra Ram 9 MRT.

There is a Lotus in there too.

[ragandboneman]

As mahtin says, pantip is annoying as every two minutes you have somebody trying to sell you porn dvds, unless you want these of course !!

Regards

ragandboneman

[keeniau96]

Pantip Plaza is indeed a wealth of toys. Power Buy has good prices on printers, monitors, etc.

[jfchandler]

I always go to Fortune Town IT because it's located right at the Phra Ram 9 MRT station, providing easy access...

There is a Power Buy there, though there's also other PowerBuys around in convenient locations, including one in CentralWorld. Though those large stores carry stuff well beyond just computer related things, so their selection of computer stuff is going to be limited.

At Fortune Town, the part I find a bit annoying is if you know what you want, trying to find the right shop that stocks it among the many dozens of different small shops located there....

For accessories, you also have to watch out for the proliferation of cheap, crappy Chinese made junk that you really wouldn't want to rely on for any serious home computer use.

I recall some months back wanting to get a PCI-E internal USB 4 port expansion card, and going around to numerous shops there only to be told "no have" or what they did have was junk.

Some things are easy to find in great variety and quantity like hard disks and Linksys or similar name brand networking gear. But some more specialized things, I ended up giving up and just ordering via mail and Amazon from the U.S.

[phaethon]

As mahtin says, pantip is annoying as every two minutes you have somebody trying to sell you porn dvds, unless you want these of course !!

They're not just annoying, I have experienced threatening behaviour from those cnuts. On one level it was amusing having a dwarf try and intimidate me, but I was also aware that if I had responded in kind a hundred of his mates would have been on me like flies on a dead farang.

Haven't been back there since. It's a long walk from any BTS, a nightmare taxi crawl and filled with fake goods, self-voiding warranties and seedy little thugs.