<p>The price on that acer is amazing! I was just looking at ordering one of those for a new myth fronted. Wonder what the price is now..</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">> | From: Lennart Sorensen <<a href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org</a>><br>> | Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:54:41 -0400<br>> <br>> | They will be opening at 9:30. No one was in line yet. :)<br>
> <br>> Apparently the first person in line showed up an hour after you posted<br>> this.<br>> <br>> I lined up at 7:45. I would not have done so if I had known how long<br>> it would take. Not only was the line long, it moved very slowly.<br>
> <br>> Service inside was quite good considering the backlog.<br>> <br>> I bought a number of things that were at good prices. Most purchases<br>> were about $10 less than good sale prices (eg. 8-port 1G ethernet<br>
> switch for $9.99, WD Green 2T $89.99). Best bargain I got: Acer Revo<br>> R3610 for $199.99; best price on <a href="http://shopbot.ca">shopbot.ca</a> $325.28 (so tasty that I<br>> bought two).<br>> <br>> The freebies were not worth the bother but they did break up the<br>
> monotony of the wait. They were essentially swag from<br>> manufacturers. I got an AMD ballcap that I put to good use in<br>> the hot sun.<br>> <br>> There were draws, but you were only eligible for real-time draws while<br>
> in the store (generally a short period), not while in the lineup.<br>> <br>> My impressions of stores:<br>> <br>> - NCIX and Bewawa have good sale prices. Not so sure about regular<br>> prices. Bewawa delivery is great (free in GTA, same day if ordered<br>
> before 15:00; credit card on delivery -- a lot like pizza delivery)<br>> <br>> - Canada Computers sales are less often exciting, but their normal<br>> prices are reasonable.<br>> <br>> - Tiger Direct sometimes has good deals but you cannot tell from their<br>
> ads -- they emphasize mediocre prices as much as good ones. Their<br>> normal prices, especially when including shipping, are bad. But<br>> they do have stuff that others don't.<br>> <br>> - Newegg.ca sometimes has good sale prices. My impression is that<br>
> their normal prices are better than Tiger Direct's. They too have a<br>> very large set of products. Shipping adds friction but a subset of<br>> deals throw in "free" shipping.<br>> <br>
> - Dell sometimes has a good deal within sales. Lots of that stuff is<br>> not Dell branded (pace, Lennart).<br>> <br>> - I haven't bought anything from PC Village, Sonnam, Filtech, or<br>> Infonec in a while but they are worth considering (probably in<br>
> reverse order).<br>> <br>> - once in a blue moon, Future Shop, Best Buy, Staples, or The Source<br>> accidentally have a good sale price. Future Shop has a good price<br>> match policy, but when I've found a good example to use, they refuse<br>
> to apply their policy.<br>> <br>> - there are lots of amusing cheap junk available mail-order from Hong<br>> Kong and China. I've dealt with dealextreme and focalprice. I've<br>> had to RMA some things. I was recently warned that cheap some green<br>
> lasers may emit an eye-damaging amount of (invisible) infrared.<br>> <br>> There is a correlation between the money you "save" and the time you<br>> spend bargain hunting. If you value your time, bargain hunting may<br>
> not be worthwhile.<br>> --<br>> The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <a href="http://gtalug.org/">http://gtalug.org/</a><br>> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: <a href="http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists">http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists</a><br>
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