Interesting results shown in the comparison in the linked article. In quite a few cases a single import, with duty and shipping to SA, is cheaper than Takealot in South Africa. I’m wondering how this will improve when Amazon opens its own warehouse in South Africa later in 2023, because then it won’t be individual shipping imports any more.
But the big takeaway is that you do need to check, and weigh it up also with whether you may ever need warranty support. There are also many items you just cannot find at all inside South Africa.
Although overall prices may balance you need to consider that importing an item can be quicker delivery than Takealot in many instances especially where Takealot does not have the product in stock at your closest warehouse, you may be limited by the SARS import limitations for non-registered importers, Newegg may…
Serval Tracker not only shows you the price history of an item (giving you an idea of its past lows) but you can set an e-mail alert for the moment it drops below a price level. Useful for this coming Black Friday. The link below goes to their website, but…
Serval records the daily historic listed and selling prices of popular products on South Africa’s biggest ecommerce site and presents these in a simple graph.To check the pricing history of a particular product, visitors must copy the URL of the product from Takealot’s site.The generated graph will then show the…
