Where the prices come from
Prices are taken from the shops’ own product data: price and stock are refreshed at least twice a day. A part is shown with a price only while a shop had it in stock at the last refresh, so the configurator never lets you pick a component nobody is selling. We do not sell parts ourselves - clicking an offer takes you to the shop’s page and you buy from the shop.
How to read the offer list
On every part page the offers are sorted from the cheapest. When several shops carry the same part, their prices sit side by side and the difference is visible at once. Parts are matched by the manufacturer’s part number and barcode, not by name, so you are comparing the same model rather than a similarly named one. The price shown is the shop’s price; check delivery terms and cost with the shop.
What the price history shows
The chart on the part page shows how the price has moved since we started tracking it. It answers the question today’s price alone cannot: is this a real discount, or the usual price wearing a sale label. If the price has just gone up, waiting often pays; if it is at the lowest point on the chart, there is nothing left to wait for.
Price alerts by email
Once logged in you can create a price alert: pick a category, optionally a keyword such as "RTX 5070", and set a price limit. When any matching product drops below the limit, you get an email. You can keep up to 25 alerts at a time, and it costs nothing.
When to buy
The price trends page shows which parts have dropped the most recently and which have gone up. The configurator total is added up from the lowest current price of each part, so the same build can cost a different amount a week later. A practical routine: put the build together, set alerts on the most expensive parts - usually the graphics card and the processor - and buy when the price reaches your limit.