Ok here is a quick price comparison of a few products selected at random comparing our prices to NCIX.com and Newegg.ca, two massive retailers. The prices below are current as of this writing but tomorrow they could be different.
The prices in brackets are the regular non-promotional prices.
| Item | NCIX.com Price | Newegg.ca Price | WTCR.ca price | WTCR.ca Price ($) |
| Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003 HDD | $139.98 | $119.99 | 25.63 BTC | $129.94 |
| Asus P9X79 | $259.99 ($282.50) | $269.99 | 61.11 BTC | $309.82 |
| Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Motherboard | $194.49 ($219.62) | $209.99 | 45.11 BTC | $228.71 |
| BenQ G2450HM 24" LCD | $179.99 ($200.98) | $186.99 | 38.96 BTC | $197.53 |
| Thermaltake TRX-1200M TR2 1200W PSU | $239.99 | $225.99 ($254.99) | 46.75 BTC | $237.02 |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC 11196-02-40G GPU | $429.99 ($499.99) | no stock/deactivated | 90.23 BTC | $457.47 |
| Asus GeForce GTX 680 GTX680-2GD5 GPU | $599.99 | $529.99 no stock | 112.78 BTC | $571.79 |
| Intel Core i3-2100 CPU | $130.98 | $119.99 | 26.24 BTC | $133.04 |
| Intel Core i7-3820 CPU | $349.98 | $309.99 | 62.54 BTC | $317.08 |
As you can see, our prices are very competitive. We might be a few bucks higher here and there, but on certain items we even beat them!
If you have bitcoin and you are in the market for buying some computer hardware, there really is no other better option. The above BTC to $ conversions were done at $5.07/BTC which is the current rate. If you wanted to purchase an item from Newegg.ca, let's say you wanted to buy the Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003 Hard Drive. They want $119.99 for it. Now with your bitcoins, if you sold them to cavirtex.com, at this moment the rate is $4.76/BTC to sell. So it is going to cost you 25.21 BTC to get it, there are 0.59% conversion trade fee there and to withdrawal it's another $6 fee, so you're going to be in the 26-27 BTC range by the time you have the funds in your bank (which will take a few days) plus when you pay for the item at Newegg.ca, hopefully you can pay instantly somehow but if you need to pay via eCheck you will wait even longer. At WTCR.ca, you can have your transaction paid for in a minute and save BTC in the process!
Another method would be to use canadianbitcoins.com. Their sell rate right now is $4.37/BTC. If you get paid via a TD payee there is a $2 fee, but if you want cash the fees range between $8 and $18 plus you have to wait for the snail mail delivery of your money, which by the time it arrives you could have already recieved your hard drive. So $119.99 is going to cost you 27.46 BTC plus a minimum 0.45 BTC TD payee fee.
Bitegg.net (now Giftcoin.net) offers Newegg gift certificates, they offered Newegg.ca ones for the longest time but I guess they are no longer available, but they still do Newegg.com gift certificates. For the sake of theory, their conversion rate is $4/BTC right now. So a $119.99 gift cert is going to cost you 29.99 BTC.
Clearly WTCR.ca is the place to go for all your computer hardware needs.
If there is a price that is cheaper on another site, just give us a call at 1-204-272-2945 between 9AM and 6PM CST and we can work something out, we can probably give you a coupon code depending on the situation, on a case-by-case basis.
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