Topic: WTCR.CA - The Original Canadian Bitcoin Computer Store since 2011! (Read 14425 times)

The shipping cost is way to high. To Sweden, over 100$... And that was the cheepest method
.. Why so high?? 

wtcr.ca is good service and fast, the fact order from them so fast , and fast for confirmation shipping .and not much talk but direct to ship if approved the order ( the same days) ... good job wtcr.ca.. my package was arrived on my country in asia.from winnipeg canada  

about price its normal and a few price its low from the other

I would like to bump this post.

I had a few doubts of this site, due to never hearing from it before, and my friends never have before either. I would like to say that this site is awesome with the way they handle everything from customer support, to sales. I have emailed them several times about several different things, and got a personalized non-automated email within minutes, something you don't see much anymore, and something I love about small businesses. I would also like to thank the wtcr staff for helping in my decision, and reassuring me in my purchase. I have now purchased a GPU from the site, and can't wait for it to arrive. Will be buying from this site again soon.

Thanks!

 

 

Thanks for the over 50% price drop on ASICMINER stock, I bought myself a few goodies.

With the falling price of the USB ASIC miners will there continue to be coupons for future buys?  I feel like I have the worst timing buying a couple days before the price dropped...  again, and last time the price dropped shortly after it arrived since there was a supply and bitmit delay.  no complaints really, just "d'oh!"

34.99 for 100 is amazing, really when I first bought one it was 39.99 for 50 and 1.19 for the single I got!  Now a group buy of these will compete nicely with some other products I'm hearing about.

up up up!

If you order before 4PM CST on a weekday your ASIC ships same day, if after that it will ship next business day. 

If wondering about stock level on an item, email [email protected], currently everything is in stock.

are all of your ASICs in stock and in hand ready to ship? once i place an order it ships right away or there is a waiting period/list?

We've got ASICMINER blades on special this weekend for 44.99 BTC,  place your orders!

http://www.wtcr.ca/catalog/product/bm-ambe1-01


We are also auctioning off a blade this weekend!  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/auction-1-asicminer-block-erupter-blade-no-reserve-13-ghs-240047

Check out our other great hardware deals at WTCR.ca,  we've got a great price on Seagate 3TB Hard Drives,  Asus MeMo Pad 7" Android Tablets,  and more right now.


teek

[Update] Got my stuff from wtcr.ca 

Will buy more once I get more BTC

Thanks! Looking forward to that. I've seen some guides here on Bitcointalk, and USB asic mining is easier with the new cgminer release.

Yeah the shipping date estimator sometimes has issues relating to the data that comes from Canada Post..  We're trying to smoothen that out the best we can!


Will definitely post when the USBs ship! 

I'm pretty sure if you had 5 of these plugged into a computer, you would see 5 devices in cgminer and it would combine the hashrate for them but you would still see them work individually in cgminer.  When they come in I'll see if I can write up a guide if no one has already, it should be pretty straight forward.

mc_lovin, can you update us here when you ship the first batches?

Great to see a real store selling these as eBay is crazy and group buys are often delayed until the specific qty is first filled. Already ordered my usb hub and fan :-)

BTW, does anyone know of a guide to get started with multiple of these on Windows? I assume if I just start cgminer, with all of these plugged in, it should work? Would the hashrate be counted as combined (e.g. 335 x 5 miners)?

Just placed an order for a USB asic miner.  Will leave feedback once order is received .

BTW shipping dates are being sent back in time during calculations 1969 or something crazy like that.

^^ up!

Ah, if it's down that means we were doing something to the server.  It shouldn't have been down for more than a few minutes, just try again!

http://wtcr.ca/


Yea, we removed Paypal/CC functionality to stay Bitcoin-only, but I think we might integrate them back in there to encourage non-bitcoin-aware people into buying things.

Removed the 7970 promotional image and listing.  It was just a duplicate of the normal 7970 listing, which right now is around 64 BTC at current price. 

The page is down for me.

thanks.. It would be wise to stay on top of that or perhaps list the price in Dollars

Ah, that was when BTC's were much lower.  I'll update that on Monday! 

7970 @ 69 BTC = > $611

get real !!

up up up ^

Thanks for the suggestion, I'm not sure if software and downloads will be a focus for us right now since www.coindl.com works so well and is popular, there wouldn't be much point in developing a similar service.  Always a possibility though, we'll keep it in mind!

Nice shop, but mostly hardware??? C'mon, btc gives you such an opportunity to sell downloadable software in seconds, you have to use it. I'd love to buy all kinds of soft with btc. If you make an efficient platform for software devs to sell thir soft on your site, that'd be epic. I'll try to convince such site to use btc. But it's aimed at Russian audience. Good luck.

thx for the bump!

yes we should get some more SSD's in there... 

& bump to the top!

Have a free bump

You should stock more SSD's, you're missing some of the best current models (imo), the Samsung 830 and Vertex 4.

Thanks for the kind words teflone, enjoy your order!

Bought a bunch of stuff only a few days ago, needed a few things fast. Spoke with Teek, he fixed me up pronto..

Stuff arrived today, I swear its only been 4 days since I ordered..
Winnepeg to Ontario.. 

A++++++   transaction on every single conceivable part of the process..


Thank you Teek..  you da man...

Thanks for the feedback on the shipping cost.  I think we can find a way to make that better and will do so.    We don't use escrow, but you do get tracked and insured shipments from an actual corporation when you order from us.

teek

Right, now I remember. Such a long signup process just to get a quote for shipping. Also, prices seem more reasonable now.

do you use escrow ? or http://bitmit.net/en/user/crosby/?ref=1644  ??

Thanks

We don't use bit-pay,  not that there is anything wrong with bitpay..

Now that is a good deal. I would buy that, but I wont use bitpay

Sapphire 7970 on for 69 BTC!  Quantities are limited! 

http://www.wtcr.ca/catalog/product/vid-s7970-02

Bitcoin need more website like yours to straighten his value and give people confidence to the market. I'm planning to open a big online store too. Lot of work...

bump!

The prices are pretty cheap considering our costs, we hardly make anything.  It's the sale prices at certain retailers that are hard to beat because they can order in volume which we can't currently do.  I've previously mentioned the savings in buying products off our site than converting your BTC into $$$, it's a huge time and cost savings.  After all, there arn't any other stores out there that offer any new computer product directly for bitcoin, which makes us the cheapest solution overall. 

I dunno; adjust your prices a bit ?

thanks for the comment, we sure could use some sales though

Great site! congratulation!

bump!!

bump!!

to the top!

bump ttt!

Email replied!

& yes we do!

Do you guys ship to Asia ?

EDIT : Sent you a email from your site's contact area.

There is really no need to create an account if you are not making a purchase, and the purchase will work fine and your account will be approved upon purchase, but to make things easier we have disabled the verification for non-purchasing accounts.  Now to create an account, all you need to do is confirm your email address using the link that is sent to you (or the one-time-use password).


bitlane I have approved your account.  I could see how frustrating that must have been, and there is a list of other accounts which are pending approval but pretty much all the usernames look like spam accounts (they mostly have jewerly, shopping, toys, and a bunch of random charactors at the end) so I think I'll just approve your account and new customers will just have to verify their email addresses to create an account.


You don't need a user account to check the shipping on an item at all, and the general idea is that our customers will already have bitcoin and will not need to go to an exchange, but that process is the opposite as if you had bitcoin and wanted to convert it to CDN/USD to shop elsewhere. 

If you want to check how much shipping is on an item:

- Select "add to cart" on an item(s)
- Click "checkout"
- Enter your postal or zip code in "delivery information"

Your shipping quote will start processing as soon as that information is present.  If you then have to purchase that amount of bitcoins from an exchange, that's another step you have to take.

We can, however, accept other payment methods.  We haven't integrated Paypal into the website for a few reasons, primarily we would like to stay as a bitcoin-only store.  We have had local customers call us and say they have no idea how to purchase bitcoins but they have cash, they arrange to order the product from us and come down to the shop here and pay for it, but it is very rare and handled on a case-by-case basis.  If you have a payment method that you would like to use, call us at 1-204-272-2945 between 9AM and 6PM CST and let us know how we can help you.

Quick tip guys - make info about postage costs available to people without signing up for an account.
http://wtcr.ca/catalog/product/cpu-i7382-01
^I'm wanting to buy one of these and will probably do it through you guys, although not for a little while as I just spent 90BTC total on some other stuff 

Need info on shipping costs to the UK, but to buy through you currently, my process is:

-Find item
-Go to checkout
-Sign Up for account
-Enter Details
-Get total price
-Go to exchange
-Transfer money into exchange
-Exchange to bitcoin
-Transfer to wallet
-Find item again
-Go to checkout
-Enter details
-Pay

So that's ~5 days to get coins, and I've then got a wait of several days for delivery, with possible customs issues and no way to do a chargeback if someone decides to screw me over.

Whereas my process for ordering locally, my process is:

-Find item
-Go to checkout
-Hit "Pay with paypal"
-Log in
-Pay

And I get the item within 48 hours.

I think to be honest the market for bitcoin-only stores like this isn't really going to work. Just as fairly few stores are paypal-only, bitcoin web-based stores should be able to promote it, but also simultaneously offer other payment methods.
That, and making your website more streamlined, is how you'll drive traffic to bitcoin sales. Check out Cigs.eu, they've got a very good implementation.

I already am thinking about you guys for my next Media Server Build.
I got a woody for that 10-bay hot-swap 4U and I think it will fit the bill.

As far as my account activation, the email I received said this:


If you could email me a password, that would be cool.

I simply waited for a second email that never came...LOL

Next time.

BTC + Canada = Win Win for me.
bitlane.

Since you paid with your $ at NCIX, don't you still have >1500 BTC left?  Simply buy 15 more 7970s!  Then you'd be styling!  Think of us for your next purchase anyway!

Hi bitlane - Wow that sucks, would have loved to have helped with that.    The accounts activate on checkout automatically, sorry that wasn't clear.

teek

It's too bad that my account was never activated, when I signed up the other day.

Someone lost out on a SHITLOAD of BTC.....
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wtb-15x-hd7970s-in-btc-80255

Thanks anyways.

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.

That particular item is a tricky one.

The 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 is $199.99 on newegg.ca and it's $199.99 on newegg.com but there is a $65 off promotion right now.  We strive to have the lowest prices out there, but sometimes other retailers have promotions that are exclusive to that location. 

Our website updates prices automatically, so if our costs go down on an item the prices will adjust. 

This is making me want another SSD...  Prices are dropping so quickly, I can't wait until the TB's come down to HDD-like prices! 

Ok - We are going to look into this and see what we can do.

The only thing stopping a purchase is the prices, TBH. Almost $200 for a 120GB Ocz Vertex 3 is really high, considering they regularly go on sale for CDN$120 even without MIRs.

Yep - bump indeed.  Support Bitcoin businesses people!  If something is stopping you from making a purchase at WTCR, we want to hear what it is so we can improve.  Post here or msg myself or mc_lovin.  If you are interested in buying something computer / IT related and want to pay in Bitcoin, but we don't have it listed, e-mail us, we will quote with competitive pricing IN BITCOIN.



teek

bump!

bump!  check out the snazzy website update!

Hey guys!  The WTCR team has a special offer for you: refurbished Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 video cards for only 27.95 BTC each.

Click the image below to see the offer!



We also carry the powerful 30 amp 208/240V Tripp Lite PDU1230 and cables!  Computers are more efficent when the power supplies are connected to 240V outlets, so get a professional PDU for your rack today!

If anyone is interested in shipping quotes etc from our store, we have UPS and Canada Post fully integrated to provide accurate shipping quotes during checkout.  Just FYI for anyone visiting WTCR.

teek

Well now that I work at WTCR.ca I can tell you that is active and perfectly prepared to process and ship orders.  We are adding new items all the time, be sure to check our site, Twitter, or Facebook pages often.  If there is anything in particular you are looking for, let us know.

anyone successfully bought something off this site yet?

I'm going to get more bitcoin before the end of the week....

Acer V203HC 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor

keep this one aside for me! please 

Would be easier to list all prices in $CAD then upon checkout convert it to the current BTC rate using cavirtex or something. Or show both prices. Just my $0.02

Do you guy's have used 1u racks?

It's up.  That webserver has been having a few issues, so there might have been some unexpected downtime at one point or another.  We didn't go anywhere though.

bumpity bump bump.

Bump for WTCR!  Some good stuff for sale here guys, spend those bitcoins!  Anything you want to see on the site or any questions, let me know!



www.wtcr.ca

Yeah, I think we will do that, it kind of bugs me too on some monitors!

The green text for the product names is making my eyes bleed. Try a darker green?

nothing specific, mechanical switch keyboards are best, and as I said, with n-key rollover (essentially, the keyboard can have every key on the thing pressed at once, and all of them register.)
Most keyboards these days only have 2-key rollover :\ garbage.

-is a snob- >.>

Hey, thanks for the feedback!   We should have some more keyboards listed shortly.  Anything in particular you wanted? I could check for you..

looks nifty! the prices arnt quite as good as newegg on some things... but overall looks good!
I'll totally look you over when i make my next purchase

also.. one thing you might look in to getting, higher quality keyboards with n-key rollover.. -wink wink, nudge nudge-

Hi!  For EU we have automated quotes through UPS, when you go to check out it should quote you shipping.  Let me know if you have any problems!

teek

How's shipping cost for EU area

Willing to order something just to test your service.

*bump*

Thanks! We will fix that up!

Noticed a spelling-error on your site. You can view it at this link http://www.wtcr.ca/catalog/product/mon-m2700-01

Notice the fine-print at the bottom..

Thanks for the feedback!  When we make some sales, it will get better yet!

Wow, very nice design. Gotta say that your site look really eye candy

We did some tweaking to our automated pricing logic, please check out the updated prices!

-teek

Yeah that seems high, something with our automated price adjustments is not working correctly.  I am looking into it right now.  Thanks for the feedback!!

am i mis-reading...

Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 for 89.34BTC... us$446?

Nice site..

I like it

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