NCIX grand opening sale

[vertaxis]

  For those of us who didn't go to the new store yet....

Is this a full store selling current stock, or is it a clearance 
warehouse like the TigerDirect stores?

John


On 2010/08/29 1:43 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Lennart Sorensen<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
> | 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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