Gator Byte

Computers & Entertainment

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 [...]

Read More..>>

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 [...]

Read More..>>

The Car That Don’t Cost Us Any Money

Posted on January 26, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Business, Electronics, Finances, Life, This Town | Leave a Comment

I grew up in this town – unfortunately, the wife does not – so she does not comprehend why people behaved or say the things they do.  When we first opened the store – an employee said to our customers that our car that we had bought from Ford – didn’t cost us any money [...]

Read More..>>

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 [...]

Read More..>>

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 [...]

Read More..>>

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 [...]

Read More..>>

Adult Movies

Posted on October 22, 2010 - Filed Under Business, gadgets, This Town | Leave a Comment

We used to rent and sell adult movies when we had a bigger store – but these days – even though we still have them – we don’t promote them unless someone asked – because currently we have no place for them and they are all in the basement.  There is a Sister’s Sarah on [...]

Read More..>>

Christmas Decors On Sale Now

Posted on October 10, 2010 - Filed Under Electronics, gadgets, Holidays, shopping | Leave a Comment

Yes! Halloween isn’t over yet but we see Christmas decoration on sale now at various places and of course, we took advantage of the sale and bought some led xmas lights for this year.  In previous years – we used the normal lights – but this year the wife said we had to be environmentally [...]

Read More..>>

Magic Jack

Posted on September 29, 2010 - Filed Under computers, gadgets | Leave a Comment

I’ve been using a Magic Jack at home for a couple months now and while it doesn’t work pretty well I don’t think I’d recommend it for most people. The biggest problem with it in this area is that there’s no local numbers yet, so anytime I want to make a call I have [...]

Read More..>>

Cutting Back on Electronics

Posted on September 4, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Electronics | Leave a Comment

Over the last couple months I haven’t been buying much in the way of electronics. Stereos, speakers, TVs, that sort of thing. I’ve still been buying things like MP3 players, game systems and computer stuff. For the amount of space the bigger items take up, compared to how long it takes to [...]

Read More..>>

A Warranty Isn’t What it Used to Be

Posted on August 25, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Electronics | Leave a Comment

Many years ago when I started this business pretty much everything I sold had a warranty of 1 year or better. Nearly all those items could be returned to my distributor for repair/replacement. During the last few years though there’s been quite a shift in the way a warranty is handled, most items [...]

Read More..>>

Xbox 360 redesigned

Posted on July 22, 2010 - Filed Under Electronics, gadgets, gaming | Leave a Comment

I’ve been contemplating the new xbox 360 but since the one I’m using is still working fine I won’t rush out and buy one just for the looks. It has a 250gb internal hard drive, but since it’s internal I can’t just use my existing drive and that means shelling out to buy a [...]

Read More..>>

53″ Panasonic TV for Sale

Posted on January 4, 2010 - Filed Under Electronics, Entertainment, TV | Leave a Comment

Available soon will be a 53″ Panasonic rear projection TV, asking price is $800. It’s being replaced by an LCD TV that will be a much better fit for the size of the room it’s in. One advantage to these slightly older style TV’s is that you don’t need to spend a couple [...]

Read More..>>

Debit Machine

Posted on November 26, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, gadgets, Ranting, Software, Technology | Leave a Comment

We own our debit machine while most stores and businesses rents theirs. The debit machines are different from the POS systems that one uses to record your sales but it is a must to have in any businesses. Some 5 yrs ago, we were approached by a company that sells debit machine [...]

Read More..>> « go backkeep looking »