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Une communauté dédiée à l'achat de produits Canadiens.

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submitted 1 week ago by GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca

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I hope avoiding Amazon fits this community rules?

I need a few bits to resurrect an old PC. My Amazon cart is $68 with shipping - we're going to cancel Prime, but my wife is still working on downloading all her photos. Best I can do elsewhere is near double this PLUS shipping from 3 different suppliers and 2 of the suppliers are on eBay, which is also a US company.

I moved to Canada a few years ago from Australia where I had pccasegear, scorptec and others. It seems Canadians have become reliant on the US market and Amazon and we now have no competitive local retailers for this type of thing?

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[–] sopelj@lemmings.sopelj.ca 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Electronics in general is hard as it's almost all made in china and the best you can do is find local resellers. Most towns will have small computer places. The only online one I know offhand is Memory Express. They don't have everything, but do have the basics and have price matching.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I like Memory Express a lot. Bought my wife's laptop there. Those guys and Canada Computers are the two places I always check first whenever I need parts.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess I should have stated the obvious - that I understand none of this stuff is going to be made here. I'm looking for local resellers.

I found Memory Express - 32GB of DDR3-1600 memory from them is $120 for Kingston or $220 for Corsair. I'm assuming they won't price match because the kit I'm looking at on Amazon is a different brand. I'm willing to pay more to buy from a Canadian reseller, but 3x price plus shipping??

[–] sopelj@lemmings.sopelj.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, that makes sense. Corsair, Kingston and Timetec are all kind of in their one price ranges so you can't really use that as a baseline to say it's 3x more expensive. I think the issue is they have very little DDR3 RAM. They have far more choices in DDR4, so it would be easier to compare fairly. It's hard to beat Amazon for selection, but hopefully you can find something that works for you elsewhere.