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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
I always felt like NCIX just sort of fluked into being the big Canadian online PC retailer.
They did nothing special to make customers go there; just offered similar products as all the other stores, with prices you could assume would be at least fair if not a few dollars cheaper than say ANITEC or A-POWER or ATIC.
They just happened to be one of the first with a functioning website with good availability and these decent, consistent prices. Maybe they should have just focused on that site and continued as Canada's version of Newegg.
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They sort of started spear heading on the e-retail, then an active forum, then Linus had his unpacking boxes of CPU parts, and then there was even a time when geeks drooled over the marketing girl. They did do a few things during those time. At least I no longer have to run around computers stores asking for this week's specials or read the computer newpapers weekly.
Anitec was nicely done up; manager there did a good job but the owner just couldn't deal with it no more and got into real estate. It was just too hard to compete to be honest.
A-power did one thing right was incorporate their warehouse into their office and "retail". ATIC.. let's just say they were still doing hand written invoices for whatever purposes *ahem taxes....