NCIX grand opening sale

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 03:07:39PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > So tomorrow (Saturday the 27th), NCIX is having a grand opening sale.
> > Might be worth checking out.
> 
> Well, I went out on Saturday and came away feeling burned, in more
> ways than one...
> 
> There were a few items that looked interesting on their web page, so I
> went, it took about 1.5 hours by TTC and Markham transit to get out to
> the store. Then it was 3 hours waiting in line to get in the store...
> by that time all the specials I was interested in were sold out :-( .
> I left the store empty handed :-( . While waiting in the sun of their
> parking lot I did develop a bit of a sunburn :-( . During the wait the
> staff did hand out some bottled water (small mercy), not so nice was a
> pen they gave away that broke on me (at least blue ink on black pants
> is not that visible) :-( .

The lineup certainly looked insane.

> Specials aside NCIX prices seem to be on a par with Tiger Direct,
> which is to say lousy compared to the usual College / Spadina
> suspects. A saving grace for Tiger Direct is that they carry some
> specialty home theater PC products that none of the other computer
> shops in town carry.
> 
> The NCIX location is a short distance from Tiger Direct's Markham
> store. Going forward, I can see myself continuing to shop at Tiger
> Direct, once in a blue moon (but just for some specialty items, and
> just at their easier to get to (for me), Etobicoke store). Unless NCIX
> either drops their prices, or starts offering specialty items that I
> want but can't find elsewhere ... well, I don't see myself returning
> to them, ever...

Well I know their website carries many things that I can't get elsewhere
easily (Canada Computer's used to carry some of them but seem to have
stopped).

I haven't seen the store yet (I haven't managed to get there yet when
there wasn't a stupid lineup).

If nothing else, perhaps one can get stuff from their website without
paying shipping for it.

I stopped by tigerdirect saturday to grab something (since I was going
by anyhow) and of course they had nothing useful as usual.  They have
exapanded the store and made it prettier.  Some signs for which isle
has what would be helpful though, so that you don't have to search the
whole store to find the area that doesn't have the item you want.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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