US-based online PC retailer Newegg has announced plans to expand its operations to India and five other markets very soon. It will also start shipping products to Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland and Singapore, apart from offering its services in US, Canada, UK and Australia. A lot of people are under the impression that Indians will be able to avail cheaper PC components from US following this announcement, but any such hope is misplaced. The company will not be setting up base here immediately and all products will be shipped from the US. These products will cost pretty much the same as they do in India after adding duties, taxes and shipping charges. That being the case, you might as well order from eBay sellers in US or even via Amazon. The only issue is that you need to ask these services to deliver the products to a shipping company like shipito that gives you a pincode in US to deliver your order to. There are some of you who will point to the deep discounting offered by Newegg as the reason to shop from them, but then again there is no guarantee that these products will be available for shipping to India. From what I have heard, even people in UK and Australia cannot buy all products from the website. Not all items that may be on sale will be 'global eligible', reducing the chances of you getting cheaper products. Newegg had earlier launched the service in Malaysia too…
