Great place for Canadians to shop

[PascalT]

Ah ok, cool, yea let me know I might just bite the bullet and buy a vid card retail. ugh. I usually avoid it but no one here has a 6600 GT to sell it seems, and my patience is running thin.

MSI has a nice bundle tho, has 2 pretty good games (x13/pop)

 

[Jeffyboy]

sometimes these retail stores have slightly better prices too. I hate buying retail as well..lol...but the suppiers are either slow, or out or whatever... and if it isn't a brand they normally carry... it's not cheap

Jeff

 

[KayKay]

i too do my shopping at the college/spadina area, and i much prefer that than ordering online and paying a ton for shipping. what once seemed like a deal online becomes nullified when you are forced to pay shipping for it.

 

[PascalT]

actually shipping ain't bad, depending on where you shop.

ncix has 10-20.00 1-2 day shipping on anything under 18pds., places like anitec.ca tho, they charge like 40.00 for shipping, they make their money that way..

 

[Keyvan]

Maybe I'm just more empathic than most; I cringe every time I see a Best Buy salesman selling someone a computer with a Celeron and telling them how many Ghz it has and how fast it will run games. It's complete BS and anyone in sales will admit to you that they tell white lies in order to keep food on their table.

As much as you hate celerons and I understand why, they are suitable for some people. I say that because I'm one of those sales drones who sell them.
I only ever sell celerons when all a customer wants to do is read email, open word docs and etc.. I tell them that if they ever want to do video editing (miniDV), play any games, do any multitasking, or do anything cpu intensive, they'd probably have to buy a new computer. And really, it's to my advantage if a customer buys the more high-end system, but the reality is that some people are on tight budgets (or just plain cheap).


p.s.: i work at a best buy subsidiary, and we're commissioned
p.p.s.: I'll be honest tho, and I admit that I've seen people being lied to a few times at work, and it's just sad

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: PascalT
actually shipping ain't bad, depending on where you shop.

ncix has 10-20.00 1-2 day shipping on anything under 18pds., places like anitec.ca tho, they charge like 40.00 for shipping, they make their money that way..

How much does allyourbase.com charge?

 

[PascalT]

No idea, since they didn't charge me for my shipping. They just pricematched ncix's final price to me.

 

[niggles]

Canada computers is usually (but not always) the cheapest in Toronto on the Sapdina College area. These guys have their prices on par with Canada computers so I think they're pretty impressive. Also I hate shopping there, the staff are the absolute worst, any knowledge they may have they do not pass on. They're generally unfriendly and sometimes down right rude. I only shop there because it's cheap, and I've occasionally knowingly paid slightly more so I could take my business else where. All your base sounds like a healthy alternative if I lived in Winnipeg.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: niggles
Canada computers is usually (but not always) the cheapest in Toronto on the Sapdina College area. These guys have their prices on par with Canada computers so I think they're pretty impressive. Also I hate shopping there, the staff are the absolute worst, any knowledge they may have they do not pass on. They're generally unfriendly and sometimes down right rude. I only shop there because it's cheap, and I've occasionally knowingly paid slightly more so I could take my business else where. All your base sounds like a healthy alternative if I lived in Winnipeg.

I like Canada Computers in that if you know what you're doing and what you want, you're in and you're out (crowds and lineups aside). I honestly can't stand it when I have to wait 20 minutes while some guy asks the sales staff every last detail about 4 motherboards, 2 hard drives, and then gets into the AMD/intel discussion.

The folks at Filtech Computer are extremely friendly and often beat out Canada Computers in terms of price. They don't have quite as much selection, but they have gone out of their way to custom order parts in for me in the past. They're my usual spot because I'm typically in and out of there with what I want within 2 minutes.

 

[TheGreenGoblin]

BTW There is a pretty good sale which finishes today at NCIX. If I had the cash I'd get the BFG 6600 GT at 283 $ Canadian. The sale finishes today at 11pm Pacific time , so anyone interested still has a chance to get some good deals.

I already picked up a 1024 MB PC 3200 Corsair Value Select kit for 190$.

 

[PascalT]

AYB pricematched me on a 6600 GT and took off -5.00 for a grand total of 225.00 (MSI card)

they sold it to me UNDER cost because I bought other stuff from them. beat that.

 

[JuanT]

Hope that wasn't a PCI-Express card... MSI's apparently overheats.

Anyways, thanks for the heads up guys, they look cool if a bit odd with the name choice.

 

[n7]

Looks like an interesting site.

 

[Yanagi]

Dont live in canada but its always nice seeing stores care about hteir customers.