Recent Spadina/College retail experience

[Teddy David Mills]

Shopping at College/Spadina is the shopping equivalent of using Linux.

1. You should know what you want and why. (otherwise you'll be dependant 
on others; google is your friend!)
2. technical support on college/spadina can actually be helpful and useful.
3. separate the useful from the useless.ie.be wary of any enterprise 
level advice you get on college&spadina.
5. As for support, the only support I expect is warranty replacement. 
(which is black and white 99.99% of the time)
6. try to patron 3 stores or less for the expensive items. This way they 
should remember you.
7. i dont know if its a look or an attitude, but salesreps can spot 
sheep and marks.
8. i dont have the idea that it is a confrontational or zero sum game. 
It is a social/shop talk time. therefore you dont have religious flame 
wars. its a collaboration of ideas.
9. and my last tibit of advice? Keep walking right past Computer Systems 
Center.

i dont know where im going with this, but you get the idea....

/tm



Zoltan (ZEE4) wrote:
> Alex Beamish wrote:
>> Hi TLUG,
>> ...
>>
>> Does anyone else have stories about shopping at Spadina/College? Is 
>> my experience unusual?
>>
>> -- 
>> Alex Beamish
>> Toronto, Ontario
>> aka talexb
>>
>> 1. http://www.sonnam.com/
>> 2. http://www.hardwaredirect.ca/
>> 3. http://www.apluscomputers.ca/
>>
> I've bought a few items over the past two years, personally I'd avoid 
> Factory Direct - slow service, seems to sell a lot of refurbished 
> stuff (they sell everything from computers to garden lights). The 
> place I bought my last computer closed about 4 weeks after I bought 
> it- good thing it still works as well as when I bought it, but then 
> again, it's all off the shelf parts, so I don't expect too many 
> problems. The best thing about the area is there are literally 10 
> stores in 10 minutes walking distance so you can walk down one side 
> then the other comparing prices, that's what I've done last time I've 
> bought computers (desktop and laptop).
>
> BTW: there's a new place, just opened in the last month, 
> www.jumbocomputers.ca near Kensington Market (Augusta St.?) and 
> College that looks nice - looks like  part of the store is is going to 
> be an Internet cafe - with bubble tea too :)
>
> Zoltan
> www.yyztech.ca - reviews, cybercafes, news
>
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