tiger direct canada is expensive

[picard]

Have you guys notice Tigerdirect.ca store sell PC stuff at higher price than other Canadian computer stores? I check out the price of Asus motherboard, RAM, LCD monitors and they cost 30% higher.

 

[clarkboyo]

yeah, they do have a bit more expensive stuff ie. core 2 duo e6300 =232 @ TD while its $192 @ ncix. But I think it's because TD is a public company (hence the .ca ending) while other stores (ncix, directcanada etc..) are either private or american owned. But, I can go use TD to get a 10% cheaper item at bestbuy because TD has a .ca ending.

 

[deusex]

lol...american owned..

 

[Phish]

The Canadian dollar is over 5% stronger, and still most items on the Tiger Canada site are 20% and MORE over the American prices. - In addition, you can't even buy from the american site if you are Canadian, any other country is fine... only Canadians are being shown prejudice. I realize this is because they have to make their .ca company happy, but seriously, if the .ca company is getting greedy -they should be able to be bypassed.

I do like some of their pricing - yeah, most of their computer stuff is outdated for the price - (yes, that would have been a good price a year ago thanx) but for other stuff... cameras etc its pretty decent. Who wants to pay an extra 20-40% over the price you can see on the .com site!?!

Any suggestions for a better company?

 

[rexter]

It's because most Canadian retailers didn't adjust thier pricing. And I don't think they will.

In comparison check vehicle pricing.

Like DeusEx said the company US base.

 

[rexter]

"Any suggestions for a better company?"

If you're in Ontario:

http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowContact
http://infonec.com/site/main.php

Far West:

http://www.ncix.com/index.php

 

[Phish]

Yeah, NCIX is ok, I've never been really impressed with their prices. Any local computer shop can put together their systems within 5-10% of their prices. I used to like Tiger, cause they would put together some pretty good bare-bone packages, all with rebates etc. - so it was possible to put together a really nice system for about $600 (minus the graphic card of course)

 

[Phish]

Hey, I just bought a system through Canadadirect.com - cost $580. Same stuff on Tiger was $756, NCIX $640(about). Actually the cheapest I found was Newegg.com - but they only ship to the states, and the price was about 5%less than Canadadirect.com - so... thats my two cents!

 

[ignoramous]

Have you tried atic.ca

 

[jamay]

Direct Canada have some pretty good prices on select "hot" items, but they don't offer nearly as many options than NCIX. They do offer free shipping, though