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we have got two huge announcements for you guys today number one april 14th i

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am going to be here at the new memory express location at 1900 west broadway

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in vancouver for a meetup i'm going to be giving away swag i'm gonna be giving

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away tech advice if you're into that sort of thing and just generally hanging

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out number two right there's a new memory express here

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at 1900 west broadway they're a relatively new face in bc but they've

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actually been in business in canada for over 20 years with stores in calgary

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edmonton and winnipeg let's go have a look inside

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it's actually kind of bizarre for me walking into this place because back

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when i was a product manager they were one of my key rivals in fact i remember

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one boxing day staying very very late

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into the office waiting around for them to post a new deal dropping our price by

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two dollars only to have them five minutes later drop theirs by another two

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dollars and going back and forth and back and forth i mean now they've got

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their uber price beat policy which takes any authorized canadian price online or

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in store and beats it by 10 so that takes some of the fun out of it but

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i guess it's good for customers right now this is one of their smaller stores

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they've actually got a gigantic one in richmond bc but they've still managed to

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pack a pretty impressive amount of computers

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technology and system components so let's have a look at what they got

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closest to the entrance they've got the key essentials

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Ethernet cables

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and RGB fans sorry before anyone gets triggered

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over here we've got gaming chairs power supplies

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coolers and then tons of peripherals so gaming

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peripherals brands like razer and Corsair and then less gaming peripherals

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so this is mostly dominated by logitech and microsoft we've got your phones

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tablets small compact laptops i

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i think it must be some kind of a law that you're not allowed to open a

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computer store unless you have like adorable kittens on mousepad somewhere

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anyway got your cleaning supplies got your external drives external drive

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enclosures if you prefer to provide your own drive got your gaming laptops so

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everything from sort of compact mid-tier performance stuff all the way up to like

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gtx 1070 based devices you've got gaming

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pcs from vendors like ASUS lenovo and MSI and then on the other side you've

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got gaming monitors from lg benq MSI

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also ASUS and so what you can do is you can have the gaming experience of the pc

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on the gaming monitor and kind of demo both of them on one island

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this is a weird one they have gift cards in here

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for everything from stuff that makes a ton of sense like memory express league

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of legends team xbox google play

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two things that make absolutely no sense

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like burger king usually my significant other can tell

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when i forgot and i just grabbed something from the computer store but

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this way nobody ever has to know tons of gaming headsets right on the other side

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of the gaming mice and then this is

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monitor demo land where you can watch someone who's got way cooler ARM tattoos

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than i will ever have build a computer also they've got some other demos that

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they run on here throughout the day networking land has everything from

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simple usb to Ethernet adapters to those like massive routers that look like

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scary upside down crabs attack its weak point

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and never one to abide by these sorts of

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restrictions from your mortals criminal scope i'm gonna bring you guys around to

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the back as well so this is where you'll find memory cards uh more external

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drives this is where actually the bulk of the external drive stock is and then

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the good stuff oh so

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many cpus and then even more important than that motherboards they've got all

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the major brands so you got your Gigabyte you got your MSI you got your

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where's ASUS they've got their whole loan section

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here and this is cool if you buy CPU RAM and motherboard they will actually for

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free mount the CPU and the RAM check and make sure everything's working and even

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install the latest BIOS so that you don't have to deal with the hassle

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pretty cool moving over here we've got the even more exciting stuff they've got graphics

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cards what 560s 570s 580s gtx 1050 tis

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1060s 1070s 1070 ti 1080s 1080

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ti do you guys have look at them all look at all of these things do you guys

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have any idea how much these things are worth you got them just sitting here

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like any random jackass could just you know

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get come out of here and like

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come around to the back this is where you'll find anything that's being held

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for a customer or anything that doesn't look as sexy on the shelf so you've got

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all kinds of ssds two and a half inch NVMe wd samsung kingston you pretty much

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name it RAM is also back here all the major brands so you got your kingston

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you got your g skill you got your Corsair desktop laptop pretty much all

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back here they've also got hard drives back here lots of different selection

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there and even more graphics cards

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look at this that's where the shortage is coming from

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memory express was hoarding them all for their grand opening over on this side

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we've got all the kind of less sexy looking stuff so you got your

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battery backups that you know still have packaging like it's straight

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out of the 90s although they are important you got your backpacks you got

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your you know bathrooms a small office this is printer corner full of printer

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toner that kind of thing they've got some monitor overflow they've got some

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cases they've got wow look at this

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spindles of dvds

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people still buy those closing out the tour customer service

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land is a big part of the customer for life philosophy so they do

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15 day returns and exchanges with no restocking fee on approved items with

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all the original packaging and accessories and then around this corner

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they've got their on-site technicians who handle rmas system build system

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repairs and they even do it business solutions so come check it out it's

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going to be on april 14th they're actually open already and there's free

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parking in the back the vancouverites be like what free parking wow that's the most

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exciting thing about it but it's actually not on the 14th i'll be here

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all morning they're gonna have deals they're gonna have swag and it should

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just be a pretty fun atmosphere so i hope to see you guys there there will be

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