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hello ,

i have to get a new TFT monitor i do not know what to look for .

i hope to get a 19" TFT i can spend £200.00 to £250.00 on it and would like to buy it form ebuyer . com

any help any one can give me would be nice thank you :)

daz300

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I can give 2 pieces of advice, as ive never bought a TFT monitor myself

1. Stay Away from eBuyer.
2. Instead, order it from www.novatech.co.uk, www.scan.co.uk or www.aria.co.uk

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1. agreed!
2. www.microdirect.co.uk are also good

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dabs? :tu: :)

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Aldi had some 19" TFT monitors in last week for £199.99 - 16ms refresh, IIRC, it may be worth seeing if any are left if you have a local branch, the main advantage being they usually have a very good warranty/returns policy.

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i do not drive (odd i know) . so i have to get it over the web .

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unusual, maybe, but not 'odd' :)

Good luck, hope you get sorted out quickly :)

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I'll add another recommendation for www.aria.co.uk

Have a look at their "Deal For Today" page, there's at least one 19" TFT there for under £215

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I just got a 19 inch TFT http://www.microdirect.co.uk/product...productID=8830

Max Resolution 1280 x 1024 / 75 Hz
Colour support Up to 16.2 million colors
Response Time 8 ms

its a nice monitor and going from a 17inch crt to 19 tft should have stayed at 17 its a bit big!

A couple of points about the monitor, there is no DVI, if that matters much, the base its supplied with is basic so no tilt, but I can always purchase another base with the tilt.

But a very nice monitor, and watching films on it is great :D

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I cannot say this enough, I wouldn't buy something from scan if you paid me to.

I had the misfortune of building a machine with parts from there once, this is what went wrong

Motherboard - wrong one in box.They decided to try to charge me for a new one, until I pointed out the receipt was for the correct one.

Monitor - TFT panel - more dead pixels than live ones - they again accused me of damaging it.

Floppy Drive - didn't work

DVD Writer - wouldn't even light up

Hard Drive - blew a chip as soon as it was connected to power - they took over 6 months to replace this one.

Processor - faulty

Ram - faulty, 3 times, and they wouldn't switch it to a different brand after the third time, or give me a refund.

Essentially, I have never been so disgusted with the quality of parts, or after sales service of a company, I will NEVER shop there again, Even NTL are better than Scam.

I switched to shopping at spoton, and have spent about £8000 on computer bits from there. They have only supplied me with 2 dodgy items, 1 was a DVD drive, which they changed on the spot, no problems, the other was a CPU fan which had a noisey bearing, again, swapped on the spot, no problems.

My recommendation - Spoton Computers

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www.ebuyer.com

Can't complain, prices, delivery, returns...all fine.

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Still plenty of these left at Aldi Sutton-in-Ashfield.

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wonder why someone said avoid ebuyer- always found them ok

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Number of factors really: -

- They use Citylink, who can be pretty useless at times. For me they never managed to deliver on the day they were meant to, and so caused quite a bit of inconvenience and aggro.

- You can't phone/email them directly. If you want to raise an issue with them you've got to use their enotes system which they will control at will and often take ages to respond. I've never had the 'pleasure' of returning anything to Ebuyer, touch wood.

- Their site goes down every now and then for a few hours without warning, thus leaving you unable you unable to chase your orders or read your enotes.

- If you need to return anything, then god help you. Read many horror stories about their returns process and inefficiency in dealing with them.

Their prices are keen, but customer service leaves alot to be desired. My experience of them has been OK so far.

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Every supplier has problems with people buying from them, i've never really had a problem with ebuyer,dabs,komplett,scan and ocuk.
I've recently got the samsung 913n from ebuyer (they were the cheapest at the time) and its a fantastic monitor. they did have a 12ms lg panel for slightly less (£215) or a 16ms acer for £200.
Spending the extra few notes (£230) though was well worth it!