UK source for Seasonic?

futureweaver · Post by **futureweaver** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:04 am

These seem to be a bit hard to find in UK ... the usual suspects (Dabs, eBuyer, Simply, etc) don't carry them ... I found these ...

- Kool 'n Quiet (a bit expensive compared to US)
- Pars ("trade only" - I thought that nonsense had disappeared years ago)
- CTL Computer Technologies Ltd (no prices given)

Anyone any experience with any of them? or know of any others?

Curiously Seasonic appear to have supplied several UK review sites with samples - bit pointless if you can't get them.

jaimemitche · Post by **jaimemitche** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 6:30 am

Can some one confirm the ones that kool n quiet have are the super silencer as a few days ago they defently had the older seasonic psu, looks like they now have the super silencer. If these are the super silencers so highly regarded aroudn here then I am going to order from kool n quiet, although there expensive they are about the price I was expecting for a UK supplier.

Thanks for spotting that futureweaver

EDIT: These are not the newer super silencer series but the older ones that have been around for a while, I remember seeing some other UK suppliers of these. Does anyone know of any UK source or avalibale source of the super silencer series?

Jaime

supastar · Post by **supastar** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 9:11 am

Maybe I can clarify the Seasonic situation. The new line of these PSUs, including the 120 mm fanned units, will not be in the UK until Q4 - that is the fourth quarter of this year. That means any time from the beginning of next month. The distributor could be no more clearer than that. As soon as they are imported, we will have them for sale.

The equivalent PSU to go for at the moment is the Fortron 120 mm unit.

The Seasonic PSUs are heavy units, have to shipped from the States and pass through more hands, so you cannot compare the UK and US prices.

futureweaver · Post by **futureweaver** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 11:32 am

supastar wrote:Maybe I can clarify the Seasonic situation. The new line of these PSUs, including the 120 mm fanned units, will not be in the UK until Q4 - that is the fourth quarter of this year. That means any time from the beginning of next month. The distributor could be no more clearer than that. As soon as they are imported, we will have them for sale.

The equivalent PSU to go for at the moment is the Fortron 120 mm unit.

The Seasonic PSUs are heavy units, have to shipped from the States and pass through more hands, so you cannot compare the UK and US prices.

I can compare what I like thanks very much - and I don't buy this "it has to cost more in the UK because it comes through the US" stuff. I suggest you go read some economics textbooks - it just isn't so. There are plenty of products where the US and UK prices are broadly equivalent - digital cameras and laptops, for instance.

The decision to charge more is usually made by someone in the distribution chain who'd like a higher margin and has a quasi-monopoly. Or, sometimes, the distribution chain isn't as efficient as it could be - for instance, it's possible that no-one in the UK or even EU can order a container-load, which might be the minimum.

Where there is an efficient, competitive, and decent-sized market, as in the examples above, this tends to eliminate fat margins and encourage distribution chain efficiencies. However, the UK market in such specialised product is none of these, yet. The US market. being larger, is more so.

Anyway, the PARS price is only £20 - though I don't know if they have stock, and it may be the passive PFC version (but Mike says this is quieter ...)