Actually I have a plan for the purchase of electronic. As 3 of my buddies should be getting their key around the same time as me, its in my intention to do bulk purchase.
I will check out the price, functions and exact model of the TV,washing machine,fridge,oven,blender,rice cooker,deep fryer,fan, cooker hood etc at Courrts, Harvey Norman etc and together with my buddies, place our orders with a larger neighbourhood household appliances shop.
Since they all get the stock from the same supplier in Spore, purchasing through the non GST registered neighbouthood shops can save us the 7%. And with the combined amount, we may even get to further bargain the price.
I think there is a large electrical appliances shop at Jurong West, not sure if it is registered for GST now since the increase to 7%
Maybe we can form a Senja Green group, maybe can even negotiate the price directly with the authorised distributors of the various brands if there are enough demand for certain brands.
For example,for our Senja flat, I should be getting the Roomba Robot for vacuuming and the wet version ,( I think call Roomba Scooba ) for mopping. If there's enough interest, maybe can contact the distributor directly n skip Courts. Haha... 10K worth of household appliances = S$700 savings from GST.