Electronics webshops that delivers to cy? (need monitor)

Hi, I need a monitor for my work-tasks, am I thinking right that Amazon is my only option?

I've looked through dozens of my usual websites but they all just ship within UK and some to limted EU countries (but not CY), Amazon seems to be the only one that ships to Cyprus (and even then limited, as anything marked "marketplace" cannot be shipped here).

Has anyone ordered larger electronics from amazon to cy?
how quick did it arrive?
did it arrive broken? every single one of my boxes I sent from Mailboxes Etc through parcelforce to paphos is smashed into peices. but maybe they treat companies boxes more carefully?

Unfortunately none of the monitors I wanted exists in amazon (it's a great shop but when it comes to monitors they are really bad) so I was hoping there would be other options.

Also my rental place has 1 address for a P/O box and 1 for the actual house (which has no mailbox), I would probably order it to the actual house (hoping for door to door delivery) right?

[george_ts]

Originally Posted by NiklasB

Hi, I need a monitor for my work-tasks, am I thinking right that Amazon is my only option?

I've looked through dozens of my usual websites but they all just ship within UK and some to limted EU countries (but not CY), Amazon seems to be the only one that ships to Cyprus (and even then limited, as anything marked "marketplace" cannot be shipped here).

Has anyone ordered larger electronics from amazon to cy?
how quick did it arrive?
did it arrive broken? every single one of my boxes I sent from Mailboxes Etc through parcelforce to paphos is smashed into peices. but maybe they treat companies boxes more carefully?

Unfortunately none of the monitors I wanted exists in amazon (it's a great shop but when it comes to monitors they are really bad) so I was hoping there would be other options.

Also my rental place has 1 address for a P/O box and 1 for the actual house (which has no mailbox), I would probably order it to the actual house (hoping for door to door delivery) right?

Hi Nicklas what monitor are you looking for ? maybe then i can advice you to some websites, what price range ?
did you look at Eshopcy ? the main company is in greece and they are very competitive (not same prices as greece but still)
and in general look also in greece as most tend to deliver to cyprus,
about prices dont worry in general greece is dirty cheap when it comes to computer hardware.
and if you have also a particular model in mind go to skroutz.gr it is the best search engine regards shops will list you the cheapest offer on top

George

Thanks George, the monitor I'm looking for is Benq M2700HD. I will check those links just now thanks.

Hmm strangely enough none of those sites had it (I couldn't find the button for english but justing from the look of the page when I searched on it it most likely said "no results).

I did find the monitor on a cyprus web-shop and they have it in stock 13300332 - BenQ LCD Monitor M2700HD 27" Wide 1000:1 1920x1080 D-Sub (Black) | Bionic Online but it's just so ridicolously over-priced.. about 120 euros over the price in UK, for that price I could literally fly to UK back and forth and pick it up myself :P

[george_ts]

Originally Posted by NiklasB

Hmm strangely enough none of those sites had it (I couldn't find the button for english but justing from the look of the page when I searched on it it most likely said "no results).

I did find the monitor on a cyprus web-shop and they have it in stock 13300332 - BenQ LCD Monitor M2700HD 27" Wide 1000:1 1920x1080 D-Sub (Black) | Bionic Online but it's just so ridicolously over-priced.. about 120 euros over the price in UK, for that price I could literally fly to UK back and forth and pick it up myself :P

can i ask is there a reason you want this particular monitor ? i mean besides beeing cheap. personally i had bad experience with benq but besides that the specs are nothing to brag about, there are better monitors with the same size.
Alternate has it in germany and they ship european wide but dont know what the costs are for shipping it to cyprus,

No it doesn't have to be that one in particular, my eyes feels more comfortable focusing on a distance than up-close which is why I prefer those mega-size monitors with low resolution (other 27 inch monitors would usually be like 2560 pixels wide) so I can sit meters away and work.

So atm it's leaning towards getting a Samsung SyncMaster P2770 instead as I just noticed that one does exist on Amazon!
I just need to do a bit of final research first so I'll try to find a wifi-bar today where I have better internet and then hopefully order unless any red flags comes up

I agree with the experience of BenQ being bad, but my personal experience is that all monitors are bad :P so it's just about getting something cheap and getting used to the flaws.
that may sound like a bold statement but really the only monitors I've tried that I'm impressed with quality is those £1k Dell 27 inches but even those they put on ridicolous resolutions to impress with specs which makes them useless (at my last workspace we had one in each meeting-room and everytime someone needed to navigate the computer they had to crawl up the meeting table until they were 50cm away from the screen just to see where the cursor is, it was hilarious :P)

[george_ts]

Originally Posted by NiklasB

No it doesn't have to be that one in particular, my eyes feels more comfortable focusing on a distance than up-close which is why I prefer those mega-size monitors with low resolution (other 27 inch monitors would usually be like 2560 pixels wide) so I can sit meters away and work.

So atm it's leaning towards getting a Samsung SyncMaster P2770 instead as I just noticed that one does exist on Amazon!
I just need to do a bit of final research first so I'll try to find a wifi-bar today where I have better internet and then hopefully order unless any red flags comes up

I agree with the experience of BenQ being bad, but my personal experience is that all monitors are bad :P so it's just about getting something cheap and getting used to the flaws.
that may sound like a bold statement but really the only monitors I've tried that I'm impressed with quality is those £1k Dell 27 inches but even those they put on ridicolous resolutions to impress with specs which makes them useless (at my last workspace we had one in each meeting-room and everytime someone needed to navigate the computer they had to crawl up the meeting table until they were 50cm away from the screen just to see where the cursor is, it was hilarious :P)

Nik

the samsung is good i have it as well but 2 weeks ago when i was in germany i found my new monitor
in my opinion (with the same resolution you are looking and me as well) there are 2 models that are better
are you sure amazon delivers to cyprus ? would be something new for me,
look also in alternate.de in germany they do deliver european wide and are specialized in computer parts.

Asus VE278Q price in alternate is 339 euro (is a led monitor)

and second is
Acer S273HLbmii 399 euro and in my opinion the best you can get for this money at the moment also led

both are 27 inch

George

Wow you sure know your monitors!
Thanks those monitors looks amazing, I was under the impression that LED-technology was too new to be availible in these "high pixel pitch" monitors, I had gone into AlaTest and ranked all the monitors by score and then just clicked on all the 27 inch monitors on first couple of pages, and none of those were LED. (so I narrowed them down to that BenQ and Samsung one)

It could very well be that those LED monitors are better and I simply missed them because they don't have a AlaScore yet which may be because they are too new, the reviews I found so far on my limited internet-connection was worthless (no scientific evaluation of picture-quality just some noob whineing about the low resolution) but I will connect to some wifi this evening and see if I can find some proper reviews and maybe order if I like what I see

I'm definitely excited about the prospect of LED since the samsung seems a bit on the dark side and I personally (unlike most game-developers) like to work in a really bright room with all the curtains up and at least my current laptop-monitor just can't keep up against the wonderful Cyprus brightness coming on from these enourmous sliding-window-doors they have here, so the brighter the monitor the less curtains I need (well I don't know exactly if LED is always brighter than regular but that will be part of my wifi-research this evening)

Amazon UK claims to deliver to Cyprus yes (except for Amazon Marketplace), I don't know about shipping costs yet tho.

Hello again, have you ordered from alternate to cyprus yourself?
I don't see Cyprus under their list of countries (greece is there, but not cyprus), there's a entry for "anderes land" which I'm guessing means "other country" so it might work but unless somewhere on the site it says they support Cyprus I'm not sure what to believe,
I can't find any information on their site about that, but I don't know any german so it's a bit difficult.

S273HL isn't even availible in UK at all so that's why amazon doesn't have it. (also the price on alternative seems to in general be better than amazon).

Also why is it you think Acer is the better of the 2? (altho I agree but all I know is how they look, the acer looks more proffesional and expensive)

[george_ts]

Hi again,

Well last time i ordered from Alternate was when i was still in greece,
"anderes land" is other country, i dont think it will be a problem, propably someone will call you back or send you an email,
what i could do is make an query on them (i speak german) and ask them if they deliver to cyprus, i am sure they will deliver as cyprus is in the eu, but propably they will not know the transport costs, usually to greece dhl costs between 20 to 30 euro not sure about cyprus

and as for the monitors yes i saw them both life, when i was in germany some weeks ago.
the acer in my opinion has better colors but only slightly, overal both are bright, much brighter compare to samsung.
as for sharpness both where good not big difference there. the acer for my eyes was less stressfull (i am sitting alot infront of the computer both at work and home) (well it is my job)
but overal either way you cant do much wrong with both,
samsung is good (i have it as well) but darker and image not so crisp in my opinion compare to this 2