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 Meetup (yay!)
I'm going to be giving away swag (XD), 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
$2 only to have them five minutes later drop theirs by another $2 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? 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 XD 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 laptop.. 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 mousepads somewhere
Anyway, got your cleaning supplies
Got your external drives, external drive enclosures if you prefer to provide your own Drive
Got your gaming laptop, 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, Xbox, Google play
To 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
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 Krabs *insert meme here*
and never one to abide by these sorts of
Restrictions from your mortals *triggurd* I'm gonna bring you guys around to the back as well, so this is where you'll find
Memory cards, even more external drives. This is where actually the bulk of the external drive stock is and then the good stuff
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 lone 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. We've got graphics cards
What 560s 570s 580s GTX 1050TIs
1060s 1070s 1070 TI's 1080s
1080ti's?!?!
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 can't come out of here and like
Coming 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 ram..
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 Xpress 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 RMA's system build system repairs
And they even do IT business solutions so come check it out. It's gonna 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. There'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 more details at the link in the video description