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BAPC Sales Canada

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Canadian sale subreddit for your PC needs. Deals on monitors, cables, processors, video cards, fans, cooling, cases, accessories, anything for a PC build. News and current events related to PC building in Canada. Inspired by /r/bapcsalescanada

Posting Guidelines

Any websites directing to PC hardware available in Canada, please provide essential information, sale price and savings details (rebates, coupons, bundles, etc.).

Posting good deals with no significant reductions or savings of some sort is fine.

Check the item is in stock and available for purchase online at the time of posting.

Mark it has expired by following these steps.

Titles Titles should be formatted as follows:

[type] description (price) [store]

Price Breakdown Round up ($29.99) to the nearest dollar ($30).

($30 - $10 = $20) ($30 - $5 MIR = $25) ($100 - 30% off = $70) Examples [GPU] Sapphire Radeon R9 280 DUAL-X OC ($280 - $50 = $230) [Canada Computers] [Monitor] Alienware AW2518HF, 25" 1080p, 240 Hz, Freesync, TN ($450 - 10% = $405) [Dell]

Tips Retailer Reviews Threads Common websites for deals in Canada

Amazon.ca Canada Computers Dell.ca Memory Express Newegg Canada PC Canada Vuugo

Price Matching

Price matching your products can save you a lot of money. Several websites (Memory Express, Future Shop, Best Buy, Staples etc...) give such service.

Learn more here:

RedFlagDeals thread for Staples Memory Express price beat

Mail In Rebates

The date given for a Mail In Rebate is the date the item must be purchased by. It must be postmarked (basically stamped / mailed by Canada Post) within ~30 days[1] from the purchase date.

/r/bapcsalescanada's MIR Success Rate Read This Before Doing a MIR

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Any other options for deals on Lemmy? I'm done with Reddit

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've created a bot that reposts bapcsalescanada from the subreddit's RSS feed. It is posted at an interval of 5mins. I am currently testing it on a test community to see if it works as intended; once it works well i will open source the code, then I can move it to post on this community if @RandomDude agrees.

I was previously tempted to make one, but was discouraged by this comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think this bot can also do it too - https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]

Maybe work with @RandomDude to see how it can be incorporated into the community?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I sent a DM to him but he hasn't gotten back to me. Others have suggested me to directly use it here if he doesn't oppose within a week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

RandomDude’s last comment was from a month ago, so you might not get a response if you wait for their approval. You could give it a week or so to see if there’s a response and activate the bot if you don’t get one. The community is dead anyway if nothing changes, so there’s nothing to lose by trying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you, I think it's a valuable tool for this sub while it's still in its infancy compared to the contributor and subscriber count of r/bapcsalescanada.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People like to shit on bots. But for a sub like this I think it makes a lot of sense to import posts from Reddit over to here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

there is a stickied post from the mod asking if anyone knows how to do this. i would be very happy about it if it was done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I though it was operating in a discord server now? https://discord.gg/S2CSPYHB

I don't want to take away from lemmy.ca, but if it's operating elsewhere maybe the robocopy mirror from discord is possible?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Something can’t be dead if it never lived.

Just like a ton of other niche communities, it’s going to take a long time to grow to something like it was on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In addition to the ongoing bot suggestion, a simple way to contribute is to post the deals you find here instead of the other site. I still check the other site every once and a while, but any good deals I find myself (that aren't on the other site yet) will be posted here and only here.