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Tax Return

Posted on February 27, 2010 - Filed Under Amused, Business, This Town | Leave a Comment

It’s that time of the year again – TAX RETURN! and for us – it means very busy because everyone is getting extra money and is spending some to indulge themselves or their kids. No need for credit reports to get your tax rebate – just your T4s from you boss by the [...]

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What Is Your Future In Yarmouth?

Posted on February 23, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Ranting, This Country, This Town | Leave a Comment

As i sit here looking at my auto insurance quotes, I cannot help but overhear what the other tables of town folks are chatting about. This town Yarmouth is going thru’ some very major stuff and it’s one bad news after another. As an owner by association to my spouse’s business I wonder [...]

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Rip-off plan fails

Posted on February 19, 2010 - Filed Under Business, thieves | Leave a Comment

A few weeks back someone brought in an iPod touch to sell. The price was right so I bought it and the guy left. Not more than 30 seconds later someone else comes in asking if I bought any stolen items today. Uhm, yeah, like I’d know they were stolen when I [...]

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Burned Games Are Illegal!

Posted on February 17, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, This Town | Leave a Comment

I don’t know if I should be upset or just laugh at some people’s ignorance in this town. Every so often we get calls to see if we want to buy burned games! Now why would we want to do that for, right? Firstly it is illegal, we sure don’t want to [...]

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Previously Played Xbox Games For $5

Posted on February 15, 2010 - Filed Under Business, gaming, sale, shopping | Leave a Comment

$5 games? Really?!? Yes really! 99% of our original Xbox games are now under $10! Whoohoo! A customer was in asking to buy something for blackhead extraction… yeah… so we sent her to Pharmasave for that. But guess what she said, she didn’t know about our games being so cheap [...]

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Previously Viewed Movies @ $5

Posted on February 13, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Movies, This Town, review | Leave a Comment

We just dropped the prices for nearly all of our previously viewed movies to $5 each because we have been accumulating quite a bit in the last few months. So we are passing the savings to our customers – YOU! The first day of the sale a customer came in to buy half [...]

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Congrats!

Posted on February 11, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Health, This Town | Leave a Comment

Our town has always been known as a baby boom town – there are a lot of teenage pregnancy here – in fact when I first arrived here some 10 yrs ago, I had mistaken a young mother for a babysitter. I had told the spouse that the babysitter wasn’t the best because she [...]

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Setting up a New Router

Posted on February 9, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Internet, computers | Leave a Comment

Since Christmas of this year I’ve noticed increased sales in 2 specific items. VGA cables so people can hook up a computer or laptop to their shiny new LCD or Plasma TV, and wireless routers so they can share their internet connection to new computers and/or game systems. Unfortunately it’s not always a [...]

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Support The Tourism Industry

Posted on January 28, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Life, This Town, Travel | Leave a Comment

If you are from Yarmouth or anywhere in Nova Scotia and can make it up to Halifax for the rally on Thursday Feb 4 at 10am – i urged you to go and support the people who are fighting to keep the Cat for another season. We at Gator Byte is not directly affected [...]

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Lucky Boxes

Posted on January 24, 2010 - Filed Under Business, sale | Leave a Comment

One of our regular customers also loves hockey cards and has been buying a pack or two once in a while. Tonight in a pack of Upper Deck series 1 he pulled a rookie card that he says is worth about $90 on eBay! A couple of days ago in a pack of [...]

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Why Pay More?

Posted on January 19, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Honesty | Leave a Comment

Yes! why pay more when you don’t have to? Just like the prenatal vitamins that I take when I was having our kid, I could buy one from a Life brand and they cost a few dollars less but for a branded one – I pay more. I checked the ingredients [...]

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World of Warcraft trading Cards in stock

Posted on January 18, 2010 - Filed Under Business, News, gaming, sale | Leave a Comment

Along with the hockey cards I also ordered a box of Scourgewar cards from the World of Warcraft trading card game. It’s similar to Magic: the Gathering but I haven’t had a chance to play it so far. The big draw for these cards are the loot cards that you can find in [...]

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Now Carrying Hockey Cards

Posted on January 18, 2010 - Filed Under Business, management | Leave a Comment

So far this year is a year of change. On a suggestion from a long time customer we’ve started carrying hockey cards (packs, not singles) and currently have 3 types to choose from. Special orders are only 2 days away and I’m willing to give a little discount if someone wants to buy [...]

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Movie Night Deals

Posted on January 16, 2010 - Filed Under Amused, Business, sale | Leave a Comment

We have a couple of Movie Night deals going on right now where you can rent some movies and get some snacks and save a couple bucks in the process. The first is 2 new release DVDs, 2 cans of pop and a large bag of chips for $10, the second is 3 new [...]

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