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.

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[Meta] I plan to deploy a /r/bapcsalescanada repost bot here next week (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After reading this post and many comments supporting the use of a bot, I started testing a repost bot (initially announced here) on a test community.

It seems to be working well so far, with posts every 10mins. Since it uses GitHub Actions, there's no hosting aspect involved. Although the actions might not start exactly every 10mins, which means in some cases the posts maybe be a bit more delayed, no hosting means it will work as long as the GitHub Actions service is not shut down.

Bot profile
Source code (I will open-source it when it is deployed here).

Unless there's serious opposition (happy to hear thoughts in the comments), I plan to deploy it here starting next week. If you simply do not like bots or don't want to get spammed, you can select "Block user".

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

THANK YOU! I had been subbed to the bot testing ground community this whole time lol

And I really like the block user recommendation for those not a fan of bots... 👍

Leveraging GitHub Actions is very cool. Curious, how do you handle expired or deleted posts?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't know how to discover those (since rss doesn't explicitly inform us about deletion, the API might but it's $$$). If someone has an idea, I will welcome a PR.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've been waiting for the bot as well, it looks good!

I think it's good for users to post content when it comes to content we have time to sit and ponder over. With sales and discounts, as long as the source isn't spammy, a bot is better. Users can downvote away the deals that are bs