Singapore Airport Duty Free Questions need answers ASAP!

[PLANT]

Hi there,

Have family member going to Singapore Airport.

1. Price on Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S3 smart phone please

2. Asus Infinity TF700 with Dock price?

3. Nexus 7 Price?

Or if someone can provide direct link to prices in Airport please?

 

[here2go]

I know this isn't much help, but Singaporeans don't buy online, they buy in the store next time they go out for some Nasi Lemak or Chicken Rice. Hence pricing from here is not as easy as elsewhere. Best your family member can do is contact the store at SIN depending on the terminal. Sprint-Cass Travel Retail.
To be honest though - jump onto StaticIce.com.au. You should be able to get some good prices from the stores in Australia, and most will express post so you can get the GST back on departure with an Australian warranty (Pay credit card here, and get GST onto Debit Card, that way you get more points!)

 

[here2go]

Just found this site - Hardwarezone.com.sg. Not at all mature unlike Australian retail. I would still contact Sprint-Cass at the airport (pick up the phone and call - Skype and IP Phones are cheap), but I can say the M1 Store at SIN has the Galaxy Nexus at $798 minus 7% GST. At S$742 Singapore for the M1 phone, vs S$649 for an Australian phone with GST based on AUD500 via Static Ice (there were cheaper phones - not sure if grey or Aussie), why buy in Singapore?

Buying phones OS is always risky business. Most warranties only cover the phone in the country of purchase - Apple and Asus* I believe are the exceptions.
I remember trying to get the Nokia Care Centre in Singapore to make my N8 Generic, as Telstra wouldn't approve the update, but they wouldn't touch it as the warranty was Australian only. I had to get the update done down south instead.

 

[PLANT]

Emailed Duty free SIn airport after google search and email passed onto Sprint...await info.

 

[here2go]

Emailed Duty free SIn airport after google search and email passed onto Sprint...await info.

Did they get back to you?

 

[PLANT]

Yep EXPENSIVE!

 

[Simo]

If you live in Australia do not buy Phones especially as they don't get the coverage that you should get and also can make it harder to get internet stuff to work.

I work in the telecommunications area and see it all the time.

People buy a phone in SIN and HKG and China and it looks like the Aust version but when they get to there home they don't get next g coverage and then they have a warranty issue and then sometimes they are not covered as the warranty T&C's only cover warranty in the country of purchase.

 

[here2go]

If you live in Australia do not buy Phones especially as they don't get the coverage that you should get and also can make it harder to get internet stuff to work.

I work in the telecommunications area and see it all the time.

People buy a phone in SIN and HKG and China and it looks like the Aust version but when they get to there home they don't get next g coverage and then they have a warranty issue and then sometimes they are not covered as the warranty T&C's only cover warranty in the country of purchase.

Eight years back my wife bought a replacement phone in Singapore after hers died somewhere in Europe. Her Siemens defaulted to Simplified Chinese for texting, and you couldn't change the settings to default to Latin (ie English) script. Made a great conversation piece, and lots of my wife's bilingual friends wanted to try typing Chinese with a T9 Candybar phone, but annoying. I agree with Simo, buy Austel approved, and make sure you know which networks the phone will cover.

 

[wandering_fred]

Just for kicks last year I was looking at name brand noise-cancelling headphones.
SIN duty free were DOUBLE the price of the Sim Lim computer/technical mall.

Caveat emptor - especially if wandering to new places

Fred

 

[NM]

Just for kicks last year I was looking at name brand noise-cancelling headphones.
SIN duty free were DOUBLE the price of the Sim Lim computer/technical mall.

Yep, and to repeat what has often been reported here: Duty-Free does not mean Profit-Free.