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Computers & Entertainment

For The Love Of Taking Photos

Posted on January 16, 2012 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, gadgets, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment

We have many customers who love taking pictures of their family and friends and for those who knows us – you too would know that we swear by the canon digital cameras  because our first digital camera was a canon and so was every upgrade we made.  We loved the Canon powerhot and highly recommend [...]

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Christmas Shopping Downtown

Posted on December 3, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, gadgets, This Town | Leave a Comment

Last week during the Christmas parade – downtown was packed with people and we have had so many people coming in to browse around the store.  Our cash drawer  had been very busy and if I was the cash drawer – I would be saying – stop working me so hard.   We are indeed very [...]

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Used Laptops for Sale

Posted on September 21, 2011 - Filed Under Business, computers, gadgets, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment

I’ve got a few used laptops in stock at the moment, just regular ol’ notebooks, no tablet laptops or netbooks.
One is an HP with a dual core processor, 2 gb RAM, 160gb Hard drive and Vista. The battery doesn’t charge up properly but it works great if you just leave it plugged in. [...]

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M:TG Players – We’ve reached Core Level!

Posted on September 20, 2011 - Filed Under Business, computers, Entertainment, gadgets, gaming | Leave a Comment

For those who come here to play Magic the Gathering on Friday nights, we are now at Core level (up from Gateway) which means that starting in October we’ll be doing official Friday Night Magic, complete with free foil promo cards for those who attend. We will also be able to hold Pre-release events [...]

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Cellphone @ The Store

Posted on August 19, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, gadgets, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment

I would love to go into the cellphone business – but there are so many models – I just can’t keep up with it – and I know very little about it.  Besides the iphones – I don’t know anything about the latest Atrix – that just came into the store a few minutes ago.   [...]

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Pawn Stars

Posted on August 16, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Business, gadgets, Life, shopping, TV | Leave a Comment

We are not a pawn shop but after watching pawn stars – we can relate to them – and their customers.  While Rick, his old man and son – Big Huss (Corey) is trying to make a living – some customers calls them a rip off  – just because they can only offer them a [...]

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3D Movies

Posted on July 16, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, Entertainment, gadgets, This Town, TV | Leave a Comment

A few customers had come in to ask if we have 3D movies – unfortunately, we don’t have those yet – because they are not on sale very often nor does any of my suppliers carry them yet.   3d tvs are still not very common – but at the Source at the mall – they [...]

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Gator Byte Going High Tech

Posted on June 22, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, gadgets, sale, Software, This Town | Leave a Comment

Haha !  not exactly – but we are trying out the new  bluetooth barcode scanner at our store – to see if it would make things any easier for us.   We figured with using the barcode scanner – we don’t have to type in all the codes on the computer when we are doing the [...]

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TV Stand

Posted on May 25, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, Entertainment, gadgets, Life, Marketing, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment

We used to carry tv stand at our store and not just your cheapie type of tv stand – ours were pretty solid wood ones and our supplier is one of the leading supplier around Canada.  Alas, it didn’t sell as well as we had hope – so now we don’t carry tv stand no [...]

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Sorry, It’s Not Yours

Posted on May 11, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, Entertainment, gadgets, Honesty, sellers, thieves, This Country, This Town | Leave a Comment

We buy and sell used electronics and gadgets – and most likely – we will have a  32gb ipod touch or a Sony turntable at one point at our store – because things comes and goes pretty quickly here – well some.  But it is also most likely not yours either – why?  in [...]

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Smart Phones

Posted on February 26, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, gadgets, management, review | Leave a Comment

Customers come in all the time and asked if we carry smart phones like  samsung galaxy , unfortunately, we don’t get any of those come in – and even if they do – we don’t usually take them because we don’t know much about the subscription and how to price them.   You see, you can [...]

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Breathe Easy At Our Store

Posted on January 22, 2011 - Filed Under Business, gadgets, Health, This Town | Leave a Comment

While the landlord is working at our basement to make some changes and fixing as required by the fire marshall of this town – we have also decided that we should invest in a dehumidifier for the store.  Why?  many people come in and out of our store everyday – and to provide a cleaner [...]

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Gotcha!

Posted on January 1, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, gadgets, thieves, This Town | Leave a Comment

A month or so ago – I was going thru’ our  cctv cameras for the cops – because someone was in the store and tried to sell us some stolen stuff.  We didn’t buy them – but we do have them on camera – as the store – is wired.   And the fact that we [...]

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Christmas Shopping

Posted on December 2, 2010 - Filed Under Business, gadgets, Holidays | 1 Comment

We haven’t had time to go out and get our Christmas shopping done as the store had been really busy.  So when customer/s tells us that they are all done or almost done with their Christmas present hunting – we are really envious – on the other hand ashamed of ourselves – because every year [...]

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