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Am I the only one (Canadian) that's bothered by the occasional vast difference in price between Newegg.com and Newegg.ca?

Case in point. I was toying with the notion of putting together a Sandy Bridge-E build. As many know the requisite X79 motherboards are kind of costly. Enter AsRock, a "value" line of Asus. Their X79 Extreme7 board on the Newegg.com site seams a relative bargain given the components and features offered.

Regular price at Newegg.com = $259
Regular price at Newegg.ca = $389. Yes that's right. $389. The same board on Newegg.ca is 50% more expensive! Not so much of a bargain for us poor Canucks is it?

Maybe this gross discrepancy is borne out of negligence. Maybe. But it strikes me as a bit of a coincidence that Newegg is just about the only Canadian retailer I can find that sells Asrock X79 boards...

Edit: OK, so this really isn't a hot deal - unless of course your talking in relative terms, in which case Americans are winning here.

Looks like Newegg (USA, California-based) may have some volume issues in Canada on that particular board?

USA:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... 79&x=0&y=0

Canada:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductLis ... 79&x=0&y=0

Out of curiosity, why do you need a ~$300 motherboard while simultaneously concerned with $50 or $100 here or there?

computron9000 wrote:

Looks like Newegg (USA, California-based) may have some volume issues in Canada on that particular board?

USA:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... 79&x=0&y=0

Canada:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductLis ... 79&x=0&y=0

Out of curiosity, why do you need a ~$300 motherboard while simultaneously concerned with $50 or $100 here or there?

Out of curiosity, why did you post links to search results for X79 motherboards at both Newegg sites?

And it's not $50, or even $100. It's $130. I've bought motherboards for less than that. Newegg.ca is sometimes more expensive, which I can attribute to issues related to volume, etc. But the difference is normally a few percent. Not fifty.