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<font face="Times New Roman">For those of us who didn't go to the
new store yet....<br>
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Is this a full store selling current stock, or is it a clearance
warehouse like the TigerDirect stores?<br>
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John<br>
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On 2010/08/29 1:43 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
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<pre wrap="">| From: Lennart Sorensen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org"><lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org></a>
| Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:54:41 -0400
| They will be opening at 9:30. No one was in line yet. :)
Apparently the first person in line showed up an hour after you posted
this.
I lined up at 7:45. I would not have done so if I had known how long
it would take. Not only was the line long, it moved very slowly.
Service inside was quite good considering the backlog.
I bought a number of things that were at good prices. Most purchases
were about $10 less than good sale prices (eg. 8-port 1G ethernet
switch for $9.99, WD Green 2T $89.99). Best bargain I got: Acer Revo
R3610 for $199.99; best price on shopbot.ca $325.28 (so tasty that I
bought two).
The freebies were not worth the bother but they did break up the
monotony of the wait. They were essentially swag from
manufacturers. I got an AMD ballcap that I put to good use in
the hot sun.
There were draws, but you were only eligible for real-time draws while
in the store (generally a short period), not while in the lineup.
My impressions of stores:
- NCIX and Bewawa have good sale prices. Not so sure about regular
prices. Bewawa delivery is great (free in GTA, same day if ordered
before 15:00; credit card on delivery -- a lot like pizza delivery)
- Canada Computers sales are less often exciting, but their normal
prices are reasonable.
- Tiger Direct sometimes has good deals but you cannot tell from their
ads -- they emphasize mediocre prices as much as good ones. Their
normal prices, especially when including shipping, are bad. But
they do have stuff that others don't.
- Newegg.ca sometimes has good sale prices. My impression is that
their normal prices are better than Tiger Direct's. They too have a
very large set of products. Shipping adds friction but a subset of
deals throw in "free" shipping.
- Dell sometimes has a good deal within sales. Lots of that stuff is
not Dell branded (pace, Lennart).
- I haven't bought anything from PC Village, Sonnam, Filtech, or
Infonec in a while but they are worth considering (probably in
reverse order).
- once in a blue moon, Future Shop, Best Buy, Staples, or The Source
accidentally have a good sale price. Future Shop has a good price
match policy, but when I've found a good example to use, they refuse
to apply their policy.
- there are lots of amusing cheap junk available mail-order from Hong
Kong and China. I've dealt with dealextreme and focalprice. I've
had to RMA some things. I was recently warned that cheap some green
lasers may emit an eye-damaging amount of (invisible) infrared.
There is a correlation between the money you "save" and the time you
spend bargain hunting. If you value your time, bargain hunting may
not be worthwhile.
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