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Computers & Entertainment

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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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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We Are Proud Of You Too

Posted on January 12, 2010 - Filed Under Amused, Business, Honesty, This Town | Leave a Comment

We were out looking for some office furniture at one of our local store and met one of our customer & his family there, when he stopped to chat with us. He mentioned that we should be very proud of ourselves since we are one of the 2 renting places left in business now. [...]

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Systems Almost Sold OUT!

Posted on December 5, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, computer repair, computers, sellers | Leave a Comment

It’s only the 5th and our shelves are almost emptied because our systems are almost gone. I cannot complained of course and there are plenty of games and movies too for sale. As for computer parts, you all know we can order it within 24hrs. I just wished that DELL would get [...]

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Lifetime Warranty

Posted on October 7, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, Ranting, This Town, computer repair | Leave a Comment

I love what we are doing – I’m proud of the man who owns this store because he always takes care of his customers. Heck! we are so good, we even tell our customers where to get acne treatment one time, when this poor kid can’t get a date because of it.
But [...]

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People Who Ripped Us Off

Posted on September 26, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, Ranting, Spam/Scam, This Town, thieves | Leave a Comment

We just found a new collection agency in Truro which will be taking over our accounts of people who have ripped us off in the last 10 years. This agency has 28 yrs of experience doing what they do best – collecting debts. So if anyone out there who “owes” us money – [...]

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Free Tech Support

Posted on September 23, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, computer repair | Leave a Comment

Customer came in this morning and said that he had his computer fixed at the store a couple of months ago.. or was it.. “before” .. i can’t really remember.. but the way he said it .. it was meant to me anyways.. that he just had it fixed or cleaned not too long [...]

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Little Time for Exercise

Posted on July 3, 2009 - Filed Under Health, Honesty | Leave a Comment

I need more incentive to get some more exercise in my life. With working long hours 6 days a week I don’t have much time to spend outside. I’ve got a stationary bike in the living room, but an often too lazy or tired to bother. What I need is a little [...]

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Honesty

Posted on June 17, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, Ranting, This Town, computers | 2 Comments

This August will be our 10th year anniversary for the business and what a journey we have had. We started as a clearance center and have morphed into what we are today, trying just about everything and anything along the way that would make money while trying to do so in a fair and [...]

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Layaway

Posted on April 23, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, lakeview larry, thieves | Leave a Comment

Many years ago, we used to let our customer/s put things on layaway, it’s a common practice here just like getting the best diet pill. Unfortunately, having tried this out and in bid to help genuine customer/s, the bad ones comes along and take advantage of it.
We had someone cheat us outright some 8 [...]

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Halo 3

Posted on September 23, 2007 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, gaming | 1 Comment

Anyone with an XBox 360 knows that Halo 3 comes out on Tuesday Sept. 25. Even though I don’t bother stocking new games these days, I have pre-ordered a few copies and most of those are claimed already. If it’s anything like the Halo 2 launch, they’ll sell a shit load of copies [...]

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Pepsi

Posted on September 11, 2007 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, shopping | Leave a Comment

It’s pretty bad when a business is better off buying certain things from competitors instead of from distributors.  Case in point, the local Shopper Drugmart had a good sale on Pepsi yesterday.  6 bottles for just $1.97, limit of 4 items per person, so of course me and the wife got each 4 on Sunday, [...]

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CRT Monitors

Posted on July 24, 2007 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, computers | Leave a Comment

I’m soon going to add CRT monitors to my list of things I have in the store that you practically have to give away to get rid of.  Right next to VHS movies, music cassettes and Sega Genesis sports games.  With LCD monitors becoming ridiculously cheap in the last year or so (22″ widescreen for [...]

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Old computers & RAM

Posted on July 4, 2007 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, computers | Leave a Comment

Any computer can benefit from having more RAM, with a couple of exceptions of course.  Old computer with windows 98?  Don’t bother putting more than 512mb in it, it’ll cause problems.  The other problem arises with old computers from the Pentium II, III and early Celeron era.  Most of those need PC100 RAM.  PC133 looks [...]

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