Savings on Whitegoods (Hvidevarer)

When we first moved here, we visited Punkt 1, a well known Danish electrical chain for our appliances.

Word of warning here - NEVER pay the asking prices here. We were told this by other people beforehand and forewarned is forearmed, as the saying goes, since we were able to get approx 15% off the list price on what we bought.

2 years later, our Zanussi Tumble Dryer (Tørretumbler) has fallen by the wayside so now time to look for a new one and this time, mission is to save money by buying in Germany.

Checklist

1) Decide on the exact model you want
2) See how much it is in Denmark using the Kelkoo search engine on Ingen MOMs
3) Now search on the German (Tysk) Kelkoo and see the difference!

Wow. We were amazed. Every appliance we looked at could be bought for approx 30-40% cheaper than in Denmark. And that includes Flegaard who are about 50 yards on the German side of the border and thus list on Kelkoo DK.

Even worse, one of the appliances we were interested in an AEG energiklasse A was available for the equivalent of 4,000 krone, but our local Skousen had it in for an amazing 10,000 krone (that's nearly £1,000 for a tumble dryer!). Imagine overpaying to that extent.

Next step is to find a German retailer willing to ship to Denmark. Not as difficult as it sounds, and with the help of Free translation on the internet, a non-German speaker like myself could work it all out.

Result :

10 days later we have a new Siemens WT46E301. The price? A mere 3,190 krone, including delivery to our door.

The Danish Prices ranged from 4,900 krone to 6,500 for the EXACT SAME model.

Only downside is that the dial is in German, buy hey, I'll happily learn 10 words of German for 1,800 krone.

I'll post the site at some point soon, along with details of a Danish bank that does FREE international money transfers, since a lot of German retailers only take cash.