Canadian parts drought?

[Gpizzle135]

Anyone else finding it REALLY hard to find some parts in Canada, especially Lian Li fans? Well, atleast anywhere other than Amazon which wants almost $60 CAD for a single AL 120

[Bombastinator]

If you’re just trying to buy stuff, I offer the workaround of Ebay. There’s a lot of new stuff there too.  Set your location to North America which includes the USA and Mexico but excludes everything else.  In theory anyway.  If you find something it should exclude Asia and Europe but people will attempt to cheat the system and to wind up with two or 3  month delivery times if you’re not careful. 

Edited January 22, 2023 by Bombastinator

[Gpizzle135]

3 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Ebay

I never think about Ebay. Just never occurs to me to look their for new parts. Only used/old stuff

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Gpizzle135 said:

I never think about Ebay. Just never occurs to me to look their for new parts. Only used/old stuff

People sell all kinds of crap there.  They do it from all over the world though.  You can set filters to exclude that stuff, but listings can slip through the cracks accidentally or on purpose, so you need to check actual shipping location by hand.  I got screwed that way for Christmas presents.  I couldn’t wait the 3 months for shipping.

[ApolloX75]

Canada has always had a relatively crap market, especially compared to the US. This is unfortunately the way of things, but over the years you find ways to get what you need/want.

 

eBay definitely helps but you'll have to make peace with shipping costs and import fees. These are often helped if the Global Shipping Program is used but it adds time on to the shipping. Many sellers in the US don't actually ship to Canada in some cases, so make sure you use the .ca variant of the site and not .com as it'll only display listings that actively ship up to us.  You can always message a seller and work out a deal for them to ship to you, but again it can be expensive.

 

There's always Newegg of course. They carry a lot of interesting stuff but I don't trust anything on there that isn't "Shipped by Newegg." Whatever they have, Amazon usually has and it's Prime. 

 

There's more specialized vendors in Canada for hard to get parts, just have to know where to look and be prepared to pay a price premium.

[Bombastinator]

It’s also fairly common or used to be, anyway, to nip into the us.  There used to be stores in Detroit that catered specifically to Canadians fromthe other side of the lake coming across the bridge, and visa versa.  A lot of citizens keep po boxes in both countries to take advantage of whatever national law change.  At the end of ww1 my grandfather took his mustering out pay in gold and stored it in a P.O. Box in Canada because it was illegal to do in the US.  That money got the family through the Great Depression.

Edited January 23, 2023 by Bombastinator

[ToboRobot]

7 hours ago, Gpizzle135 said:

Anyone else finding it REALLY hard to find some parts in Canada, especially Lian Li fans? Well, atleast anywhere other than Amazon which wants almost $60 CAD for a single AL 120

if only someone would resurrect NCIX

[thrasher_565]

ebay has not much ether i looked. probably just more supply problems... or the stuff that was imported is drying up. i think there are tarrifes on that stuff? ammazon can also sell stuff at a hier price then els ware too. there just not much options in canada any more.

[Slayerking92]

Memory express seems to have a wide assortment of Lian Li cooling gear.  They ship canada wide and will match any price, not sure WTF OP issue is.

 

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Category/Cooling?FilterID=55f1290e-d5d3-5a68-9263-d5704ff84b72

 

 

[Bombastinator]

21 minutes ago, Slayerking92 said:

Memory express seems to have a wide assortment of Lian Li cooling gear.  They ship canada wide and will match any price, not sure WTF OP issue is.

 

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Category/Cooling?FilterID=55f1290e-d5d3-5a68-9263-d5704ff84b72

 

 

I suspect stuff like this shifts by the hour and when people look they think what it’s like at that specific moment is what it’s like in general when it isn’t.  I don’t know who if anyone is right about this one.  To get that kind of read it would have to be an averag of a number taken every few minutes for a month. 

[Gpizzle135]

1 hour ago, Slayerking92 said:

Memory express seems to have a wide assortment of Lian Li cooling gear.  They ship canada wide and will match any price, not sure WTF OP issue is.

 

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Category/Cooling?FilterID=55f1290e-d5d3-5a68-9263-d5704ff84b72

 

 

I thought they where a US shop. Now I know better

[Jerakl]

Yeah while maybe not official I could see it. 

 

Took me a while to find an itx motherboard in stock anywhere at msrp