Clueless dad seeks help on a gaming build

[hikaricloud]

They won't price match that combo deal there, if you ask me. The GPU/HDD? It seems unlikely.

 

[jfenwick]

They won't price match that combo deal there, if you ask me. The GPU/HDD? It seems unlikely.

No, I doubt they would, it's a good deal, i added them to the ncix cart as individual items. That combo is what kept it reasonable at newegg.ca as at ncix, even with the price match it's still $60 more for those two items. The killer with newegg.ca is the S&H, it was over $200 vs ncix.com's $50! Highway robbery.

 

[hikaricloud]

Fair enough, maybe a healthy blend between the two?

 

[jfenwick]

The savings would be negated by the S&H fees, to ship that combo alone is still $49.00 and that is to my postal code in toronto. So the savings are wasted there....the above build would have been well over $200 in S&H fees except they had a couple of those items on special with free or cheap shipping. It's too bad because newegg.ca has the best...all around average prices i think, they've started to get better the past month or so and are now relatively consistently in the few lowest for most components. Unfortunately the S&H kills that.

 

[synergy]

Yea, kills it indeed. I had NO idea shipping was that much to you guys. That makes a substantial difference. That's like 20% of the cost of the entire build...outrageous. At that point it might be worth looking at [censored] a Dell or pre-built. [/censored]

 

[Hefemeister]

[censored] a Dell or pre-built. [/censored]

Blasphemy
Not in his price range no way do not even think about it.

Ok I may be slightly biased.

 

[patonb]

Yea, kills it indeed. I had NO idea shipping was that much to you guys. That makes a substantial difference. That's like 20% of the cost of the entire build...outrageous. At that point it might be worth looking at [censored] a Dell or pre-built. [/censored]

Yha, a 260 and a 750tx

Edit 1
Priced out at ncix, and shipping was 5 bucks less.

Edit 2

Just priced it to Michigan....... Cost 8 bucks more than the order. So only a grand total of
296.57 USD = 373.772 CAD
United States Dollars Canada Dollars

 

[jfenwick]

Yeah, I would expect it to be higher than most as its from California but they are also rolling taxes into that amount. In Ontario here we have a sales tax of 13% (was 15% a year ago) but that is made up of two taxes, provincial and federal. When you buy out of province you only need to charge the federal tax, like when i buy from ncix which is based in British Columbia i only pay the 5% federal tax. For some reason newegg.ca charges the full tax amount in every province. I can't find an ontario base or anything that they are working out of so I think this may be a cash grab on their part...they are too big for it to be an oversight so I don't know. The other US stores i buy from don't charge it either.

I'm no tax expert though so i could be wrong...

 

[xxfirexx]

I think the taxes has to do with getting parts over customs

 

[jfenwick]

I'm not tax expert but it could be that within the country out of province purchases don't require the provincial sales taxes while out of country purchases do. Although like I said before, other places i've purchased from in the sates have not charged these large fees.