NCIX grand opening sale

Sun Aug 29 12:56:17 UTC 2010

No, the NCIX warehouse is separate, on the other side of the 407.

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On 29 Aug 2010 at 8:43, vertaxis wrote:

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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