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welcome to a new segment about technology and computers around the world this is obviously not something that we're going to be able to do all the time but whenever we kind of travel somewhere we'll try to pick up another episode it's largely going to be about the consumer experience of living there and shopping for things within the country this will obviously require different angles taken for different various countries like if we did one in Taiwan it would be much different than this one which was done in Switzerland and I believe that is natural so hopefully you guys find it interesting and without further ado let's do it Tunnel bear is the easy-to-use VPN service that lets use the web as if you're in 20 different countries learn more and try to bear for free at the link in the video description before I even came to Switzerland it was echoed over and over and over again by online when you're looking for computer components that's all anybody said a moderator on the forum Alpen Wasser happens to be from switzerland and he very specifically was like yeah nobody buys in stores who just buy online here and I went on forums local forums to Switzerland traveler forums for people that were visiting Switzerland it might need computer components everybody saying buy online okay interesting but I'm stubborn so I want to try a store so let's check it out and what a store it was huge we went to Media Markt and this place was massive at first it seemed like they'd have everything you could have wanted peripherals out the but they had keyboards mice monitors headphones speakers whatever the heck you wanted and huge amounts of them on display ready to use which is super cool it's kind of a problem in North America as far as I know at least where I'm from like people will ask what cherrise which they should use and they can't go try any of them or like who what's the comparison between say a cherry brown and a roamer gee well at some place like Media Markt you could actually try that super cool you can also try all the mouse headphones whatever it's awesome even their camera section have like really high-end nice cameras and studio lights which is kind of cool to see in a consumer electronics store but the computers themselves was a little bit of a letdown there was kind of a semi small row of them tucked under some monitors forgotten in a back corner of the store and no components to speak of which was a little rough also the prices at least compared to North America was a little brutal but that did seem to be a consistent theme throughout Switzerland so I'm not sure if that's necessarily tied directly into only computer parts now for buying online Switzerland isn't actually part of the EU so there's some import costs and problems there but you're probably okay there's a website called top price CH which is actually freaking awesome there's a huge amount of online computer part stores in Switzerland somehow and you can filter all their prices through this website and one thing that's actually really cool about shopping online is that shipping is basically free on everything as far as I could tell not quite everything but the vast majority of things and a lot of them depending on where you live are even available for stuff like one-day shipping so it's not really that big of a deal that you can't go to a store to pick it up if you can just get it that day anyways now prices are kind of hard to compare to the brick-and-mortar store because they didn't actually have the same things but when comparing other various things the margin did seem to be slightly higher for brick-and-mortar which is kind of expected so that's not a huge deal and one thing that's really nice about the top price website is that well you can do a mass search for a product and find the cheapest one so you're probably going to end up getting a pretty good deal but then again things are kind of expensive in Switzerland so it's probably still not going to be cheap in terms of cell providers we were there for under a week so we only really had time to try out one there are two or three however but I've heard that they're all kind of somewhat the same in terms of service providing and cost we paid 10 Swiss francs and were able to get coverage for the entire week with unlimited data and a bunch of other things included and that's actually really cheap also it was really easy to set up the process was quite quick and it worked in our phones immediately actually quite satisfied in terms of that we went everywhere from Geneva to loose on to Lucerne and a few places in between and one a little bit further and yeah coverage everywhere including when we were hiking out in the hills so I'm quite satisfied with the self service in Switzerland dollarshaveclub.com they deliver shavers right to your door for about a third of the price of what that other greedy razor company charges both my wallet my face finally get some relief from that old crappy 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