What do you recommend? Where do you buy any hardware and software online from?

I hear overclockers are quite good, i was having a look the other day.

people here dont like overclockers... cpucity, ebuyer and so on is where ppl whcih talk on these forums buy stuff them

www.ebuyer.com

Thanks guys, i wasnt too impressed by overclockers either, they seemed a little pricey etc.

Thanks for the sites, ill check them out.

i use Overclockers as a resource... like a incomplete libary then if i buy i buy from Ebay or Ebuyer

i dont trust ebay.

Theres no guarantee you get your product.

And if you dont then you have to take them to court etc or whatever, theres no guarantee you will get your money back, but i guess if your a risk taker its ok.

ebuyer is totally different from ebay btw. ebuyer have like unrivalled customer service and stunning prices. their product line varies weekly as do their prices.

eBay is totally secure, and if you are unsure about purchasing anything from that site, you should always check the sellers feedback. I usually only buy from people who have over 50+ feedback and also mail them to ask them more about that particular product.
If the reply e-mail comes back in chav talk such as:
"ye it iz absolutly gr8 m8y!!!!!111 no probz at all!!111"
I will not proceed with the purchase of this product.
Whereas if the reply e-mail comes back looking something like this:
"Hi there, I am replying to your e-mail reffering to product ID:blabla"
Then I shall bid for that item.
Top tip, always make sure that the seller has good feedback and also don't buy from an eBay shop, because they are just things they can't sell in the shop at the rediculously high prices they are being sold at. <3

I am an eBuyer man all the way - I like the customer reviews & have not to date had a bad experience with them in all my years of retail therapy with them

Oh yeh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that eBay is "The Best!" but you can actually get some good deals on there and most of the time have no hastle

overclockers maybe a little more pricey than everything else but in all honestly I've never had 1 problem with them where u hear all time bout ppl bitchin on ebuyer,dabs, etc etc also might wanna try out
www.pcindex.co.uk

in my experience ith overclockers, they do a good job of sending u the wrong stuff! not the 1st time round but when sending stuff back, they replaced my m8's broken cd drive with a p4-2.4ghz proc

saying that, ebuyer just sent me MS office 2k3 sbe, instead of 2 hp printer cartridges

I've always sworn by cpucity. Maybe a touch more pricey than ocuk on some things but you get customer service. They've always been reachable by phone, which is a must i think (try ring ocuk lol). I've send back a few items with them and they've been great. Even allowed me to upgrade from a faulty MSI mobo to Lanparty.

Aria are pretty good also, some nice prices and really really stupidly fast delivery, I usually order things before 4pm and they arrive the next morning.

www.aria.co.uk if you didn't know already.

plus you can ask a question on a product and get a reply pretty quickly about compatability etc on the little product message board.

Aria Technology Limited ('Aria PC Technology', aria.co.uk) wrote me saying it was deducting a testing and re-stocking fee for an item I never returned to to Aria Technology Ltd.!

lol, I assume you didn't have to pay anything?

I got a mail from Aria yesterday apologising for then being a bit shit from Jan- April this years because of a crap new IT system they installed. (which is now fixed.)