FutureShop and other Canadian Retailers - Why don't you sell the fabulous Eye-Fi SD card?

Submitted by Roland on Wed, 2008-08-06 09:02

UPDATE: Vincent Janelle says that it could be that the Eye-Fi card is not approved by the CRTC.  Thanks Vince!

I am going on Darren's client Future Shop's blogger opening tonight and I know it's off topic but I have a question for Future Shop buyers: Why don't you sell the cool gadgets? Like the Eye-Fi card which IMHO is mass market (and to my knowledge has been available in the USA for over 6 months but is still unavailable from Canadian mass market retailers)  but still cool?

I have always loved gadgets. Ever since I have been a kid back in the 1970s I have been buying (via mail order) gadgets that were unavailable in Canada. Things are better now, since we have E-Bay (which I loathe, but that's another blog post) but we are still behind. Perhaps somebody should open up a retail version of TigerDirect.ca? I'd pay a premium to touch and feel cool gadgets that aren't officially available in Canada and to buy them immediately without suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous duty, mail order, e-bay and other annoying things like that.

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Darren (not verified)

Wed, 2008-08-06 15:25

I'll find somebody you can ask in person tonight.

Vincent Janelle (not verified)

Thu, 2008-08-07 19:10

Hasn't been certified by the CRTC in canada maybe?

Roland

Mon, 2008-08-11 10:59

how do i find out if something has CRTC approval?

James S (not verified)

Sun, 2008-11-16 16:06

Just passing by. Still no Eye-fi in Canada eh? I may just buy one on ebay, the sellers there don't seem to care about exporting goods that may not be certified in Canada anyways.

I also agree it would be nice to upload raws; but, I usually post-process all may raws anyways... so I'm not too sad about that. I wonder if it transfers them when it's locally to your computer or not. Otherwise I'll have to turn on raw+jpeg on my nikon d90...

Roland

Sun, 2008-11-23 19:24

n/t

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