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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A call for people with experience (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Howdy everyone. As this community begins to get more members, I'm looking for anyone with experience with RSS capable of auto-posting from other sites (RFD, r/bapcsalescanada, etc.) so that deals can be posted frequently on here (and while they are still on). From my understanding, I can for example, use: "https://www.reddit.com/r/bapcsalescanada/.rss" to get the rss feed for r/bapcsalescanada, but I am not sure on how to get it to post in this community.

Additionally, if there is something equivalent to the specs bot that is capable of posting the specs of ssds, or BapcsBotCanada that posts similar deals that have been posted recently.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you’ve stopped attempts at this because of previous comments, I think it’s worth revisiting. The community doesn’t have the population or participation level needed yet for it to function. It’s too much to ask for one person (RandomDude) to keep alive by themselves.

As things stand you need to return to Reddit anyway for the info, so populating it with posts or links from there would at least keep people on Lemmy.

If people don’t like it, they can always block the account of the bot making the posts and they’d be left with only human generated content.

When the community is large and engaged enough to function without the bot, it can be disabled.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I second this. As it currently stands, this community is already dead (last post before the two today was a month ago). And I like the mirroring of posts from r/bapcsalescanada since the source of posts is human in origin.

A quick GitHub search yielded this repo, which could probably be forked to mirror r/bapcsalescanada rss posts to this community. Unfortunately I don't have the means to host this bot full time.

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

See if it's possible to incorporate this into the community - https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stick with humans.

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

Seconded, I wouldn't want the local page be flooded by reposted Reddit stuff by bots, even for deals.