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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 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 $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 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 laptop side 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 mouth pad 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 PC's from vendors like a sous lenovo and msi and then on the other side you've got gaming monitors from LG BenQ msi also a sous 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 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 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 monitored Emelyn 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 Krabs attack and never one to abide by these sorts of restrictions from your mortals criminal scum I'm gonna bring you guys around to the back as well so this is where you'll find memory cards 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 mercy soos 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 five 60s five 70s five 80s GT x 1050 t is 10 60s 10 70s 1070 TI's 10 80s 1080p is it 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 come around 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 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 in 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