we have got two huge announcements for you guys today number one april 14th i
am going to be here at the new memory express location at 1900 west broadway
in vancouver for a meetup i'm going to be giving away swag i'm gonna be giving
away tech advice if you're into that sort of thing and just generally hanging
out number two right there's a new memory express here
at 1900 west broadway they're a relatively new face in bc but they've
actually been in business in canada for over 20 years with stores in calgary
edmonton and winnipeg let's go have a look inside
it's actually kind of bizarre for me walking into this place because back
when i was a product manager they were one of my key rivals in fact i remember
one boxing day staying very very late
into the office waiting around for them to post a new deal dropping our price by
two dollars only to have them five minutes later drop theirs by another two
dollars and going back and forth and back and forth i mean now they've got
their uber price beat policy which takes any authorized canadian price online or
in store and beats it by 10 so that takes some of the fun out of it but
i guess it's good for customers right now this is one of their smaller stores
they've actually got a gigantic one in richmond bc but they've still managed to
pack a pretty impressive amount of computers
technology and system components so let's have a look at what they got
closest to the entrance they've got the key essentials
Ethernet cables
and RGB fans sorry before anyone gets triggered
over here we've got gaming chairs power supplies
coolers and then tons of peripherals so gaming
peripherals brands like razer and Corsair and then less gaming peripherals
so this is mostly dominated by logitech and microsoft we've got your phones
tablets small compact laptops i
i think it must be some kind of a law that you're not allowed to open a
computer store unless you have like adorable kittens on mousepad somewhere
anyway got your cleaning supplies got your external drives external drive
enclosures if you prefer to provide your own drive got your gaming laptops so
everything from sort of compact mid-tier performance stuff all the way up to like
gtx 1070 based devices you've got gaming
pcs from vendors like ASUS lenovo and MSI and then on the other side you've
got gaming monitors from lg benq MSI
also ASUS and so what you can do is you can have the gaming experience of the pc
on the gaming monitor and kind of demo both of them on one island
this is a weird one they have gift cards in here
for everything from stuff that makes a ton of sense like memory express league
of legends team xbox google play
two things that make absolutely no sense
like burger king usually my significant other can tell
when i forgot and i just grabbed something from the computer store but
this way nobody ever has to know tons of gaming headsets right on the other side
of the gaming mice and then this is
monitor demo land where you can watch someone who's got way cooler ARM tattoos
than i will ever have build a computer also they've got some other demos that
they run on here throughout the day networking land has everything from
simple usb to Ethernet adapters to those like massive routers that look like
scary upside down crabs attack its weak point
and never one to abide by these sorts of
restrictions from your mortals criminal scope i'm gonna bring you guys around to
the back as well so this is where you'll find memory cards uh more external
drives this is where actually the bulk of the external drive stock is and then
the good stuff oh so
many cpus and then even more important than that motherboards they've got all
the major brands so you got your Gigabyte you got your MSI you got your
where's ASUS they've got their whole loan section
here and this is cool if you buy CPU RAM and motherboard they will actually for
free mount the CPU and the RAM check and make sure everything's working and even
install the latest BIOS so that you don't have to deal with the hassle
pretty cool moving over here we've got the even more exciting stuff they've got graphics
cards what 560s 570s 580s gtx 1050 tis
1060s 1070s 1070 ti 1080s 1080
ti do you guys have look at them all look at all of these things do you guys
have any idea how much these things are worth you got them just sitting here
like any random jackass could just you know
get come out of here and like
come around to the back this is where you'll find anything that's being held
for a customer or anything that doesn't look as sexy on the shelf so you've got
all kinds of ssds two and a half inch NVMe wd samsung kingston you pretty much
name it RAM is also back here all the major brands so you got your kingston
you got your g skill you got your Corsair desktop laptop pretty much all
back here they've also got hard drives back here lots of different selection
there and even more graphics cards
look at this that's where the shortage is coming from
memory express was hoarding them all for their grand opening over on this side
we've got all the kind of less sexy looking stuff so you got your
battery backups that you know still have packaging like it's straight
out of the 90s although they are important you got your backpacks you got
your you know bathrooms a small office this is printer corner full of printer
toner that kind of thing they've got some monitor overflow they've got some
cases they've got wow look at this
spindles of dvds
people still buy those closing out the tour customer service
land is a big part of the customer for life philosophy so they do
15 day returns and exchanges with no restocking fee on approved items with
all the original packaging and accessories and then around this corner
they've got their on-site technicians who handle rmas system build system
repairs and they even do it business solutions so come check it out it's
going to be on april 14th they're actually open already and there's free
parking in the back the vancouverites be like what free parking wow that's the most
exciting thing about it but it's actually not on the 14th i'll be here
all morning they're gonna have deals they're gonna have swag and it should
just be a pretty fun atmosphere so i hope to see you guys there there will be
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