DKS
Damn Kidney Stones
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join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
clubs: | Guess Who Is Coming to Canada?
Look here. Should be interesting competition!
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Wolfie00
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| That is really great news ... if they are run and priced as they are in the U.S. If "being Canadian" is seen as a license to double their prices and provide less-competitive service that would be pretty sad. But I'm hopeful!
The good folks over at NCIX must be pooping their drawers over this!  |
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quickbeam
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Ottawa
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said by DKS  :Look here. Should be interesting competition! This is good news! Nice find. |
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AR
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Toronto, ON
·Rogers Hi-Speed
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said by Wolfie00 :That is really great news ... if they are run and priced as they are in the U.S. If "being Canadian" is seen as a license to double their prices and provide less-competitive service that would be pretty sad. But I'm hopeful! Don't be.
This is Canada, you'll never see US-like pricing or service. Never.
Remember your friends at Amex Canada - their US counterparts give me more benefits, better customer service, more card features etc etc. Same can be said in terms of pricing for Banana Republic Canada vs US, Costco Canada vs US, Ikea Canada vs US etc etc. |
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quickbeam
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| said by AR :said by Wolfie00 :That is really great news ... if they are run and priced as they are in the U.S. If "being Canadian" is seen as a license to double their prices and provide less-competitive service that would be pretty sad. But I'm hopeful! Don't be. This is Canada, you'll never see US-like pricing or service. Never. Remember your friends at Amex Canada - their US counterparts give me more benefits, better customer service, more card features etc etc. Same can be said in terms of pricing for Banana Republic Canada vs US, Costco Canada vs US, Ikea Canada vs US etc etc. If they do they will BLOW away the competition. I'll keep my fingers crossed I guess. |
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AR
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Toronto, ON
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| Why would they want to blow away the competition? I mean, do you see Bell vs Telus vs Rogers try to blow away the competition? Or CIBC/BMO/TDCanadatrust?
I'll keep my fingers crossed, won't hold my breath though.  |
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Wolfie00
My dog is an elitist
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join:2005-03-12
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The differences with Amex are probably just Amex taking advantage of the fact that Canadian banks are ridiculously uncompetitive. Don't forget amazon.ca vs. amazon.com, but then the book and DVD markets are tightly and rather artificially controlled (why did some newly published books still continue to carry cover prices 50% higher in Canada than the U.S. when the dollar was at parity or even higher than the USD?). But markets for different products are all different. I'm willing to be hopeful about newegg, but we'll see. At best, they'll be a Canadian equivalent of their U.S. operations. Less optimistically, we'll be whining about higher prices way above the exchange rate. Worst possibility: they may not survive here, much like some U.S. expansion failures into Canada.
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The Flash
You don't win friends with salad
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Toronto, ON | reply to DKS
I find that a lot of the computer hardware prices are getting better, it's a lot closer than what it used to be compared to the States. |
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andyb
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SW Ontario
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If our dollar stays close and they dont try to gouge us like future shop etc and bame it on so and so fee then fine.I'd like to see a fry's here too.
EDIT: Be nice if they gave a time frame.I need some stuff. |
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pat_lc2000
join:2006-02-04
Ottawa, ON | reply to DKS
I would much rather have Canada's banking system then the US's horrible banking system.
That said I wish newegg well in Canada and if I can get an even cheaper laptop then It's great. |
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quickbeam
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said by AR :Why would they want to blow away the competition? I mean, do you see Bell vs Telus vs Rogers try to blow away the competition? Or CIBC/BMO/TDCanadatrust? I'll keep my fingers crossed, won't hold my breath though. You're correct...they are running a buisness not doing us a favor.  |
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quanta
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I think NCIX and Canada Computers will hold their own against newegg.
Personally I'd be more excited if Amazon finally opened up Amazon.ca to the full product selection of Amazon.com. How that would be a game-changer.
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andyb
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SW Ontario | Quanta! Aint seen that name in a while. |
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quanta
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Toronto, ON
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| Aw shucks. I've just been busy. I'm still Canadian, don't worry.
Back on topic: I'm seeing newegg being more of a competitor against TigerDirect, Staples and Future Shop. Hard to believe they could undersell distributors like NCIX or the Chinese shops in Toronto's College St. or Pmall. |
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digitalfutur
Sees More Than Shown
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BurlingtonON
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Not bad, they're the 10th largest U.S. online retailer.
»www.internetretailer.com/top500/list.asp
As posted upthread, if Amazon.ca goes full product like its U.S. parent, it'll shake up Canadian online retailing like Wal-Mart Canada did with its bricks and mortar stores. It'll be interesting to see how they wait after newegg sets up shop.
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HiVolt
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Toronto, ON
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Hey, not bad... Hope they'll be reasonably priced. I hope they'll set up shop outside of Ontario so we wont pay PST.
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andyb
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SW Ontario | reply to quanta
Maybe they will open in Brantford where its competition is futureshop and .. ooops there is none. |
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DKS
Damn Kidney Stones
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join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
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said by quanta : Hard to believe they could undersell distributors like NCIX or the Chinese shops in Toronto's College St. or Pmall. Speaking of which, I was on College St. last week west of Spadina. Lots of closed computer shops and the ones which were open weren't worldbeaters in terms of price.
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The Flash
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Toronto, ON | reply to DKS
I pretty much only buy from NCIX unless locally if it's cheaper which most of the case isn't.
If newegg has reasonable shipping, I'm sold. |
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macedon
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this is great news - thanks for sharing ...
any ETA on this? |
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