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There's no official source, as NCIX is a privately owned company, so their financials are not made public.
However, NCIX does business with many distributors in Canada (basically all of them), and account managers talk to each other, and it's become "common knowledge" that NCIX is severely in debt to the various distributors, dating back to this past summer (I believe June was when it really started to hit the fan). As a result, the distributors are no longer providing NCIX with new stock.
Evidence of this issue is fairly abundant, as NUMEROUS people here, on other forums, and even on NCIX's forums, twitter, facebook, etc have complained about ordering something that should be very easy for NCIX to obtain (eg - Core i7-7700K), and NCIX not communicating with the customer for weeks at a time, ignoring emails, not answering phonecalls, etc.. when the customer threatens a chargeback (which costs NCIX $25, on top of losing the sale), NCIX will contact the customer and claim that the order has been delayed because of a 'stock shortage', even though the customer could go to literally ANY other store and purchase it no problem.
Further evidence of NCIX's imminent demise (at least as a retail storefront operation) is the fact that they have gone through several rounds of layoffs over the past few months, reducing their staff from hundreds before the summer to, from what I can tell, a few staff per location today. They've also closed all of their stores outside of BC except for one in Ontario, and they've attempted to close several stores in BC (but were unable to get out of their leases, so they have kept them open thus far to function as clearance centres). They've also put up for sale their warehouse property.
Exact figures of how much debt NCIX is in, how long they've been in debt, etc, are going to be impossible to find out, because those details are of course confidential and only NCIX (and I guess NCIX's bank) knows exactly how deep they are. I've heard rumours of anything from $2m - $20m+.
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