Intel Price Cut... What about Canada?

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RavenGuard

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Basically as the title says.

Anybody have an idea of when we'll see the prices go down in Canada? I'm interested in a Q9650 and I can't wait!
 
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RavenGuard

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$330 US and $430 here? I work at Canada Computers and the Q9650 has been about $450 for a few weeks... I assumed the price would drop noticeably from that... I suppose not.
 
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AFAIK no Canadian retailers were selling the Q9650 below $600 until this past week. Before the price cut Q9550 was selling around $390, so that should be where the Q9650 will drop to (hopefully).
 
taltamir

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hahahahaahahahah... price cut in canada, you are killing me.

on a more serious note, I have no idea why they insist on ignore price cuts and competitive pricings outside the USA. There is no rhyme and reason to it, but it happens.
 
geokilla

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It's cus it's Canada. Look at Rogers and Bell for Internet and home phone. They practically have a monopoly.
 
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Originally posted by: RavenGuard
Originally posted by: BubbaBooBoo
Thats a great reason to get an i7 920! Its cheeper here in Canada!
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But then I need an X58 and ddr3 :(
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The price diff between Canada and USA is next to nuthin. Ill bet you can configre an i7 920 rig at just about the same price here or their:

Diretc Canada

This Gigabite X58 mobo is Can $237 but over on newegg USA its US $184 which works out to Can $227. Ten bucks is well worht it to be able to drink Canuck beer!

 
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Check out the i7 920 price at newegg in the states

newegg usa

and at newegg in canada

newegg canada

When you cacluate the curency exchange the canadian price is $20 cheeper! Who says that Canuckia has high prices? You just gotta know how to shop around and not just walk into future shop and get reemed!
 
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Yeah our i920 price is okay, but most other things are crap.

In general, we get shafted on 90% of things out there, especially when our dollar is significantly worse.

Even when our dollar was better for a while there, we had prices about the same at best, most still worse, with some a little bit better.

But as soon as the dollar went back to crap, ncix & friends went happily back to shafting us again.

newegg.ca actually has okay conversion prices on some things, but on all the rest, they are horribly overpriced compared to an average ncix.com sale.

And we get raped on newegg.ca shipping/brokerage comparably, so their "better prices" are not usually really better.
 
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pmv

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Is the Canadian dollar doing as badly as the UK Pound?

I assume its because the pound has turned into monopoly money that the E8400 now seems to cost 20% _more_ than it did 7 months ago? Unless I accidentally noted down the pre-VAT (sales tax) price when I was speculatively working out the cost of a system back then. If this goes on it will soon be impossible to afford anything computer related.
 
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I honistly dont know what you are on about, n7. newegg.ca has a one dollar brokirage fee. I order from them and ncix all the time with no prob at all. If you calculaite the exchange rate they are very competetive with the US prices. Sometimes a couple of percentige points up or down but usualy prety good. With the Canuckbuck going up and down all the time its gotta be rough to try to keep up with the boing boing boing but I think that nicx and newegg do a good job.

pmv, the canuck is down almost 20% in the past little while, but the pound is doing worse. Its almost equla to the Euro now. Wow.What about the cost of your housing over thier? Houses that cost a million pounds last year are now down to 200k or even less. This recesion is starting to turn into a depresion!
 
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Originally posted by: pmv
Is the Canadian dollar doing as badly as the UK Pound?

I assume its because the pound has turned into monopoly money that the E8400 now seems to cost 20% _more_ than it did 7 months ago? Unless I accidentally noted down the pre-VAT (sales tax) price when I was speculatively working out the cost of a system back then. If this goes on it will soon be impossible to afford anything computer related.
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GBPUSD exchange rate

Nah, its not an error of failing to document the VAT, the sterling is now worth about 2/3 what is was worth at the end of July when buying goods sold in USD.

That 33% currency devaluation in 5 months has got to be a real killer for buying anything that's imported. Buying things in the UK which are imported from Japan is even worse, GBPJPY exchange rate, as there the sterling has depreciated to nearly half its value in Yen over the same 5 months. Those PS3's and Wii prices in GBP have got to suck right about now.
 
Spicedaddy

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newegg.ca dropped the prices last week, ncix.com also I think.

Our dollar is worth 80 cents US these days while it was about even last summer. That's why we're paying more for CPUs.
 
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Well, I think I've convinced myself to wait for a decent AM3 board at these prices. It's not like the Q6600 is slow or anything... I'm just looking to waste money on toys... but toys I can justify :)
 
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you guys have to lay off the booze. :beer: Seriously. I dont know what sites your lookin at but Canadian prices are almost exacltly the same as US:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115017
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor - Retail
US Dollar price at newegg.com: $189. Canadian Dollar price $219 at Tiger Direct Canada: In US$179. $10 Cheaper In Canada.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115041
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor - Retail
US Dollar price at newegg.com: $282. Canadian Dollar price $349 at New Egg Canada: In US$285. $3 More Expensive In Canada.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115130
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor - Retail
US Dollar price at newegg.com: $333. Canadian Dollar price $432 at Direct Canada: In US$352. $19 More Expensive In Canada.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115131
Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor - Retail
US Dollar price at newegg.com: $229. Canadian Dollar price $279 at Tiger Direct Canada: In US$228. $1 Cheaper In Canada.

So what are ya talkin about? Are you stil thinkin that the canuck and yankee buck are at par? wake up! :D
 
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