Dell 2709W S-PVA LCD Monitor Picture

But… today, they once again have the Dell UltraSharp 2709W 27” LCD monitor supporting 1920×1200 pixel resolution, all the input connections (HDMI, DVI, and yes – displayport) as well as 5 USB connections, an S-PVA panel, and so much more.

I wrote previously about reviews of the Dell 2709W so if you use the search feature on the top to look for my previous articles and reviews of the Dell 2709W, you’ll see that it’s been $549 and $599 so far this year.

It’s at $599 today only (until 6:00 a.m. EDT Saturday morning)… as I’ve mentioned before, I have actually used this monitor for over a year. OK, not this exact one, the 2707WFP… summary ? I love it.

BTW, Dell is experimenting with lightbox display of their promos (mistake, Mike Dell) and it’s causing so many XML errors that they have a “click here if this page isn’t displaying” option. The above link should work ok.

Wait ‘til you run it with Windows 7

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Dell UltraSharp 2709W for $599 – third time in 2009 – days of deals ; check the 2709w reviews

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L’autre soir je discutai avec une amie concernant la confidentialité d’une adresse IP, et ce que quelqu’un d’autre pourrait faire s’il connait ton adresse IP.

Alors, c’est un sujet qui sera difficile à couvrir entièrement dans quelques phrases, et je viens de terminer une autre discussion avec un collègue (qui travail en sécurité informatique, ahem… cheers Benjamin.) pendant qu’on tentait de déboguer des problèmes d’indexage de recherche de SharePoint Server.

Donc, en bref, l’adresse IP est unique. L’adresse est généralement accordée à une connexion réseau par votre fournisseur d’accès réseau – ou, dans le cas d’un réseau corporatif, par votre administrateur réseau à partir de la banque d’adresses IP accordé à votre compagnie.

Pour les gens qui utilisent des services d’accès Internet à la maison, l’adresse est généralement assignée par votre fournisseur Internet. Contrairement à l’environnement corporatif, il est plutôt rare que l’adresse IP assigné à votre connexion résidentielle soit statique. C’est-à-dire que l’adresse IP sera en rotation avec d’autres clients. Ceci est nécessaire car il y a une quantité limité d’adresses IP

Est-ce que l’adresse IP est confidentielle ? Alors, ca dépends. Le protocole Internet nécessite que lors que vous faite une demande à un autre serveur (par exemple, votre fureteur Web qui demande une page sur un site web) vous transmettez multiples informations incluant votre adresse IP, le contenu (page) que vous désirez consulter, votre système d’exploitation, version du fureteur … et beaucoup plus

La confidentialité de ces informations est entièrement dans les mains …. et responsabilité.. des sites que vous visitez. Ces informations sont utilisés par les administrateurs de sites web principalement pour fins d’analyse statistiques et optimisation de leur site et contenu pour mieux répondre aux spécifications de votre ordinateur, fureteur, résolution graphique et (oui) localisation géographique.

Certains sites Webs, par exemple les sites du gouvernement Canadien *.gc.ca, ont des politiques internes très strictes sur ce qu’ils feront avec ces renseignements et également des contraintes sur les accès internes. Chez le gouvernement Canadien, c’est généralement seulement les administrateurs de systèmes ayant la cote de sécurité approprié *et* une justification qui pourront accéder ces informations. C’est parce que OUI, c’est possible d’associer une adresse IP à une personne spécifique dans certains cas. Dans ces cas, c’est possible d’identifier les actions et comportements d’un individu …

Ces politiques de protection de la vie privée varient beaucoup de site en site… mais finalement, qu’est-ce que quelqu’un faire avec ton adresse IP ? J’aime la comparaison avec votre adresse civique de votre résidence… ca dépend sur ce que vous avez à protéger sur votre réseau (ou ordinateur) et… si vous laissez des portes et fenêtres ouvertes vous augmentez les possibilités que quelqu’un accède à des choses à l’intérieur de votre résidence. Cet exemple s’applique de façon similaire à l’ordinateur (ou les ordinateurs) accessible via votre adresse IP.

Exemple des informations que vous transmettez à chaque site que vous visitez? Voir http://www.find-ip-address.org/ip-information.php

Bref, protégeons nos ordinateurs, assurez vous d’avoir un logiciel de sécurité (antivirus et firewall) à jour et faire des scans régulièrement à partir de disque de démarrage connu comme étant non-infecté. J’aime bien AVG…

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Confidentialité de l’adresse IP – pas vraiment. Les informations transmises aux sites que vous visitez

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Whew, that’s one crazy long title.

OK, I’ve been dealing with licensing reps from MSFT, fellow Sharepointers in the twittersphere, and I’m still not 100% sure about this particular Sharepoint licensing scenario.

Let’s say I have a Sharepoint farm, with MOSS 2007 installed. I have 100 regional users for whom I have 100 MOSS standard CALs.

I wish to have non-CAL users access sites in a separate site collection on the same Sharepoint Server. The non-CAL users would not have access to the MOSS portal site, no My Sites, etc. They would only have access to the separate site collection.

In this latter scenario, am I still within the licensing requirements? My 100 users for whom I have CALs would have access to everything. The non-CAL users would have access only to site collections and no MOSS portal site access.

It annoys me when MSFT reps say that licensing is “simple” and “straight forward”… sorry; not. I spend 15% of my time trying to explain licensing to my C-level executives… (and I have a hard time grasping all the finer elements of MSFT licensing soup myself… after 10+ years working with MS enterprise software.)

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Sharepoint / MOSS licensing – do we need MOSS CALs for users with access only to WSS sites in a separate site collection

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I’ve managed website monetization strategies for quite a while now, and first started using Chitika about 3 years ago or so, when they were essentially providing widgets to online stores that would pay a commission. At the time, it was a murky fit if you already had Adsense running, since it involved an option to insert their code to deliver ads in a contextual manner (adjusting ads based on the content of your page)…

At the time they offered 2 types of ad integration for website publishers; either through a fixed keyword method (where you chose a keyword to indicate products to be placed from their pool of advertisers) and a contextual method where they would place ads based on your page content. At the time, Adsense was the biggest (perhaps only significant?) player in the contextual text ad game, so it was hard to really give up the “sure-fire” Adsense revenue to experiment with Chitika. I did try it with the specific keyword method, but their product advertiser range was quite limited – mainly electronics; and as such it didn’t work well with our non-electronics based sites.

That all changed around a year ago, and now they have a great advertising model, where their JavaScript-based ad code only appears to visitors arriving from a search engine. Basically their ad code recognizes the search string that your visitor used on the referring search engine, and then Chitika displays relevant ads based on that particular keyword. It’s not purely contextual, and therefore can be used in tandem with Google Adsense – the latter program specifically disallows for the use of concurrent contextual advertising spots.

This way, it’s only your visitors who arrive from search engines who see the Chitika ads, and you get paid per click that your visitors do on the ads. The payouts are quite decent, and it’s fairly uninstrusive for your visitor base.

Congrats to Chitika who just reached 50,000 publishers! If you own a website, I highly recommend you try out Chitika and get a few extra dollars flowing your way.

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Chitika hits 50,000 publishers – congrats! a great way to supplement your Adsense & other website revenue methods

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A pretty hot deal over at Newegg Canada for the Kingston SNV125-S2BN 64GB SSD drive… it shows $136.99, but if you apply the coupon code CEMCLTML39 it takes it down to CA$126.99. A good deal for a SATA II, 2.5″ notebook drive…

Your call if the benefits of an SSD drive outweigh the price difference compared to regular mechanical drives. The specs claim 100MBps sequential read with 80MBps writing speed.

That’s a pretty good deal considering the same drive is US $134.99 on Amazon.com US $134.99 on Amazon.com

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Kingston SNV125-S2BN/64GB 64GB SSDNow solid state drive for $126.99 at Newegg Canada

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Lunchtime – yeah, I know, I should take a break from the net at least over lunch, but hey, Lady Grey is curled up next to me on the couch and I’m enjoying a slice of Premiere Moisson bread with tuna and Tzatziki sauce.

Now on to an interesting domain name sale over on eBay. The name denial.com auction ended with 49 bids at $6100… a pretty good deal, in my opinion, for both buyer and seller. I’m thinking it’s a great generic name that can have a wide range of applications – my first thought is to develop a portal for self-help.. or perhaps a news site about politicians and/or lawyers

It seems like a legitimate sale – although we’ll have to watch the Whois information for the changes and who the new buyer is. This is one of the rarer high value domain sales that take place on eBay; we’re used to seeing these type of transactions over at SEDO:

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Domain name denial.com sells for USD $6100 on eBay – good investment (and sale)

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OK, so admittedly, I haven’t been maintaining the site over the last few weeks (check the right sidebar for my Twitter activity tho’)… regardless, just got a note from Adrienne Erreca of Commission Junction that pretty much confirms that Microsoft will be ending the affiliate program for Office Live.

I don’t think that MSFT is unhappy with the affiliate model, rather it’s most probably a rebranding strategy (Bing it, you’ll see)…

Office Live was pretty much MSFT’s first foray into SaaS cloud computing targeting small and medium businesses that were (for the most part) already exploring online tools like Google Docs.

Did anyone make any coin referring visitors to Microsoft Office Live? They’re paying $1 per registration for their service – but only until June 30th!

Here’s the official news:

From: Microsoft Office Live [mailto:owner-membermessaging@mx6.cj.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:31 PM
Subject: Microsoft Office Live affiliate program to close 6/30/09

Robin Majumdar,

We’re writing to let you know that the Microsoft Office Live Small Business affiliate program will be closing 6/30/09.

We appreciate all of the time and effort that you put into promoting the program and wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at aerreca@cj.com or 805.730.8377.

Sincerely,
The Microsoft Office Live Affiliate Team
Adrienne Erreca | Sr. Program Manager
Commission Junction | a Valueclick Company

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Official : Microsoft to close Office Live Affiliate Program

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eBay Canada is having yet another 5 cent listing promotion on Wednesday, May 19. You can list your eBay auction, or fixed price, listings for $0.05 – it’s usually between $0.35 and $4.00 to list an item per category! This is a nice opportunity to list your items for a nickel. It’s a nice deal considering that often one of the biggest costs in gettings item on eBay is that initial listing fee.

It’s been a while since eBay Canada has one of these discount listing days, so it’s well worth taking some time to put up some of the stuff you’ve been considering selling. I will be tomorrow evening.

See full details at on eBay Canada ’bout this 5 cent listing day.

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

eBay Canada $0.05 – 5 cent listing day on May 19th – not a free listing day but great deal !

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So, after installing Windows 7 Release Candidate (Build 7100) and trying to connect to Windows Live Messenger (14.0.8064.206), I kept getting error 81000306 and could not connect.

It’s important to note that these errors (on a Dell Latitude D620 with 2GB of memory) were on a dial-up modem connection although I doubt that was part of the error.

I found some potential advice over at the Windows Live Messenger Live Spaces blog which suggests doing some adjustments to the WLM proxy settings. The problem is that the advice provided seems to presume that WLM can be started normally in order to access the Tools menu ; this, in my case, wasn’t possible; I couldn’t even start Windows Live Messenger!

Those very instructions also suggest disabling the Windows Vista Auto Tuning Networking feature using the command line and entering “netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled“.

I made that change (using Run as Administrator, of course) and attempted to reconnect using Windows Live Messenger. After about 90 seconds of the rotating WLM graphic… no dice. I got the 81000306 error once again.

The instructions at the WLM Live Space say to revert the disabling of Auto Network Tuning using the “netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal” command… so this is what I just did.

Amazingly, after REVERTING to Auto Network Tuning BACK on, I was able to connect using Windows Live Messenger. So, if this topsy turvy method of disabling Auto Network Tuning, and then reactivating it as I instructed above, worked for you – please do leave a comment below!

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Windows Live Messenger 9 unable to connect with error 81000306 – solution ?

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Alors j’ai reçu ce message encore ce matin, pour la 16352772e fois en 6 ans. Ca prétend être un communiqué officiel de la Sûreté du Québec et oui…. C’est une légende urbaine ou, excusez l’anglicisme, un hoax.

Message de la Sureté du Québec
Très important… Très important… Très important…

AVERTISSEMENT DE LA S.Q.
Ne pas clignoter vos phares si vous rencontrez une auto avec les phares éteints. Les policiers du programme DARE ont publié l’avertissement suivant : Si vous ROULEZ le soir et que vous croisez une automobile avec les phares éteints, NE CLIGNOTEZ PAS VOS PHARES. Il peut s’agir d’un rite d’initiation d’un gang nommé ‘BLOODS’. Pour être accepté, le nouveau membre doit conduire une voiture sans ses phares le soir, à la noirceur. La première voiture qui lui signale que ses phares sont éteints en clignotant les siens devient automatiquement sa cible. C’est alors que l’aspirant BLOODS’ doit se retourner et rejoindre la voiture qui a clignoté et qu’il doit viser et tuer tous les individus y prenant place.Voilà les règles d’initiation. Ça se passe surtout les vendredis et samedis soirs. Les postes de polices partout au pays ont été avertis de la situation. Assurez-vous de partager cette info avec vos contacts!

Lise Boutin
Agente de secrétariat
Sûreté du Québec
MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges Est
Tél.: (450) 424-1212
Fax: (450) 424-8580

Ca fait le tour maintenant depuis presque 7 ans – voir des modèles de lettres similaires sur HoaxKiller.fr…

Donc, SVP, ne pas faire suivre ce message à l’ensemble de tes contacts – surtout en mettant leurs noms et courriels visibles à tous les destinataires en c.c. …

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Ne clignotez pas vos phares – avertissement de la Sûreté du Québec : hoax & légende urbaine

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So after fish & chips for lunch, had a few moments to scan some of the latest headlines:

The news is official at the Geocities site and comes just a day after YHOO reported their quarterly earnings. Things aren’t looking good (yet again) for Yahoo! … but sorry, Geocities was a horrible buy (IMHO) …. perhaps the idea was for Geocities to be folded into the Yahoo! suite as a sort of MySpace.

Regardless, I always despised Geocities and MySpace for the same reason: Web 0.1 designs … it was the equivalent of hosting your company site on Tripod (errkkk.)

See the official Yahoo! / Geocities announcement

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Yahoo! shutting down Geocities (after buying it in 1999 for $4.6 billion) – Good riddance…

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There is a pretty good promotion on today on eBay and eBay Canada – including eBay Motors!

Until 23h59 PT (Pacific Time) tonight on eBay.com you can create auction listings for a flat fee of just $0.15! Depending on how much your starting price is for your item, that means you can save up to $3.85 per listing – or double that if you list in 2 categories.

It’s been several months since the last eBay listing promotion, and while this isn’t a “free listing day” you can save quite a bit of money on the listing fees if you have a few items to put up on sale.

The promotion is good on both eBay US (eBay.com) and eBay Canada but if you list on eBay Canada, you have to get your listing in before 23:59 EASTERN time… as opposed to the 23h59 PACIFIC time for the .com site!

You can see the details about the 15 cent listing promotion here, but to summarise:

- must have DSR (detailled seller rating) of 4.5 or more, or no DSR at all;

- The following listing types / categories are excluded from the promotion: Fixed Price listings, Media listings (including Books, Music, Movies & DVDs and Vide Games), note: Video Game systems are included in the promotion. eBay Motors Passenger Vehicles, Motorcycles, Power Sports, Other Vehicles, Motors Local Market, International, Live Auction, Professional Services, Real Estate, Ad Format and Store Inventory listings.

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

15 cent auction listing promotion on eBay today ! Save up to $3.85 in insertion fees!

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Dell 2709W S-PVA LCD Monitor Picture

Read my full review of the 2709W LCD monitor here – the last deal was for $599 just 2 months ago in January!

I work with a 2707WFP monitor and *LOVE* it!

The $549 deal is today only – direct link here.

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Dell 2709W Ultrasharp 27″ 1920×1200 LCD monitor for $549 shipped in Canada – today only!

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Well, anyone who is somewhat into the Internet marketing space, PPC or CPA or whatever else, is certainly familiar with the (in)famous photo of Jeremy Schoemaker posing with his $127K Adsense check a few years ago.

Well, Jeremy is on top of his game and twittered about this eBay auction sale for a (mediocre) domain name InternetAirCard .com that uses the Shoemoney Adsense photo as the primary photo in the auction.

Chutzpah!

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

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So, Mike Massimino is Mission Specialist on NASA STS-125 and is, I believe, the first active NASA astronaut to be actively twittering…

I wonder if his Twitters from space will still be met with the dreaded “Twitter is over capacity” message, or if there will be some sort of prioritized VPN between the NASA space vehicles and the better Web 2.0 sites.

Correction: I think Twittering from outer space counts as Web 3.0

Follow Mike Massimino err… astro_mike on Twitter and be sure to check out his official NASA JSC (Johnson Space Center) page.

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

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Well, TweetDeck is my current fave 3rd party Twitter tool to manage Tweets…

TweetDeck 0.25 was released and the online upgrade from 0.21.5 was quite smooth – actually seamless.

One of the most notable features I noticed is being able to select if your tweet will be posted to Twitter, Facebook, or both. This is a most welcome feature as I offer Twitter several times during the day and night, but don’t necessarily want to integrate those Tweets as part of my FB status…

Here’s a list of TweetDeck 0.25 feature updates from the official changelog:

Added recording of 12seconds clips within TweetDeck
Added auto-complete of usernames in the tweet box
Added support for Spotify URI and http URLs
Added FB integration – column & cross posting
Added Digg URL shortener
Added DIGG short url preview window
Added bit.ly short url preview window
Added maxlength and restrictions to url shortening field
Added a preference for auto including the hashtags when replying
Added twitpic preview window
Added blocking of DMs to self, inline with twitter.com

Updated url shortening services to top 5 only
Updated FB tickbox to stay on even when blocked action occurs
Updated replies column to reflect change in twitter replies API method (no search)
Updated replies data to get max 200 tweets
Updated tab order of tweet box so easy to go from tweet to shorten box
Updated process for replying to multiple recipients
Updated username login field to only accept allowed characters
Updated twitter status message to something less churlish

Fixed Email Tweet resulting in blank email bug
Fixed < character cutting off tweets in Summize columns
Fixed empty replies column bug
Fixed issues with @username autocomplete placement

Removed unread counter at top of each column

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

TweetDeck 0.25 released ! Painless upgrade from 0.21.5

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Sanjit Kumar has been doing great work for me on a variety of technical issues, primarily as a rock superstar MySQL DBA keeping various LAMP powered sites running smoothly and securely.

He’s also working on perfecting his written English communication skills so I’m pleased to announce that he’ll be writing here as a guest blogger now and then.

I’ve got plenty of things to take care of (hint, their names are Zachary & Tristan) that have a far higher priority (err, LifeRank?) so I can’t always find time to write as much as I would like.

Sanjit knows my site focus and will respond to readers, so consider his technical acumen on par with my own (heheh, whatever that is!)

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Hello Sanjit

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OK, so it’s like I’m off today to Hawkesbury for a quick jaunt for some business, and although I used to live near there (believe it or not!) I don’t remember the town that well.

So far it’s looking like the Best Western L’Heritage is the most suitable Hawkesbury hotel that has Internet access…

Anyone ever use it? Is it reliable ? Do they block ports or otherwise filter connections ?

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Off to Hawkesbury (for business, sigh) – recommended hotel with Internet access ?

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Tôt ce matin avec la pluie abondante qui tombe sur la grande région de Montréal, j’ai vu un nom de domaine particulièrement intéressant présentement en vente chez Sedo. Le prix de réserve a été rencontré pour Joueurs.com avec moins que 9-10 heures (il est présentement 6h52 HNE) qui restent dans l’encan. Il y a moins de 15 enchères et le prix est < USD 600.

Ceux qui me connaissent savent que je crois beaucoup dans l’investissement dans les sites Web et, plus particulièrement, les noms de domaines. Bien que le marché soit très mature pour les mots génériques en anglais ainsi que les acronymes de 2 à 4 lettres, il reste encore beaucoup de potentiel (vers le haut) pour le marché des domaines en français.

Rappelons que joueurs.com est l’équivalent de players.com en anglais. Croyez vous que le marché biens virtuels francophones vaudrait un jour 5% de l’équivalent du marché mondial présentement dominé par l’anglais ? Si oui, le calcul (et bien aussi, le retour sur l’investissement) d’un nom de domaine générique comme joueurs.com est assez facile a faire.

Suivre l’encan pour joueurs.com sur SEDO

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

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We had the news for about 10 days now, but decided to delay the publication of this pretty phenomenal end of an era (premature end?) in Canadian Online retailing.

The Canadian Tire Corporation has decided to cease operations of its online store effective January 29, 2009. The news was first released to Canadian Tire partners and affiliates (see full letter after the break) citing concerns surrounding the cost of shipping goods vs. the margins that they have to deal with.


I think this is a big mistake. If CT indeed does decide to revamp their online presence to only be a showcase to get people into their bricks and mortar stores (even if those B&M stores are “within a 10-15 minute drive of 90% of the Canadian population” it marks a major step backwards in terms of retailing trends. Sure, I am one of those folks who double-dipped at the CanadianTire.ca store by ordering a clothes drying rack at 50% off (for roughly $7.99) and applied a free shipping coupon code… what happened? Of course, I wasn’t at home when the shipment arrived, so I went to pick it up at a Canada Post outlet near my home. How much do you think it cost CTC to ship that $7.99 drying rack to me?

I revealed this news about the closing of their online store to a few industry colleagues who understood the underlying premise but agreed with me that it was a poor decision to shutter the entire online operation.

Apparently, as of January 30th, Canadian Tire will only sell “gift cards” online.

One can only hope that they will (at least) maximize the promise of online retailing while limiting transactions to their b&m outlets. They could, theoretically, do this by maintaining all the social / crowdsourcing aspects of their site (user reviews and ratings, etc.) and integrating seamless in-store inventory verification (make it real-time!).

That won’t be easy. Don’t have me surfing your online “store” showing availability at a bricks and mortar Canadian Tire outlet within a “10-15 minute drive” of my home to ultimately arrive at the store and see that it’s OOS (out of stock) or unfindeable, or whatever. Bait and switch will not work with the millennial / Gen-Y crowd.

Personally, I think that CT will have to return to an online delivery model in the near future if they wish to survive. Just have the realities of real world delivery reflected in shipping cost. Sure, if I wish to pay $20 shipping for a $7.99 drying rack, I may think twice. Perhaps I will opt for free ISPU (in-store pick-up) for free.

But please do maintain your online store.

Oh, and stop paying for user “reviews.” (another story, another time.)

As promised, the official news from Canadian Tire:

Dear Affiliates,

Over the past few years, canadiantire.ca has experienced exceptional growth in traffic, making it one of the busiest e-commerce sites in the country. Our research indicates that the overwhelming majority of the traffic to the site is focused on products that are heavily researched, but not necessarily suitable for home delivery (patio sets, tires, etc). This, coupled with the fact that we have an extensive store network with 473 stores located within a 10-15 minute drive of 90% of the Canadian population, led us to the decision to discontinue direct home delivery and to deploy our resources to development of capabilities and features that will significantly enhance the online experience for the millions of customers that visit canadiantire.ca every month.

To continue to deliver on our commitment to provide customers with the best retail site experience, we will continue to invest resources to dramatically enhance the site. In addition to re-launching the site with a brand new look, new navigational functionality and even more ‘how-to’ information for our customers, we will also be introducing in-store pick-up of online orders in a couple of markets later this spring.
Effective January 29, 2009 online sales of product (excluding gift cards) from Canadian Tire’s website, www.canadiantire.ca, will be suspended. The eFlyer program will continue without interruption.

You are welcome to leave Canadian Tire creative banners up on your sites but need to be aware that as of January 30, 2009, commissions can be earned on gift card sales ONLY. Any Canadian Tire creative banners that speak to free shipping codes or purchasing products (other than gift cards) will be deleted from the Linkshare Image Inventory on January 29, 2009. A reminder will be sent to you on January 30, 2009 asking you to review your site to ensure that the Canadian Tire creative banners reflect this change.
We appreciate your understanding in this matter and look forward to working with you in 2009.

Regards,
The Canadian Tire Online Team
1-866-746-7287

Visit CanadianTire.ca.

This article was originally published at: Robin Majumdar 2.0

Canadian Tire to close online store as of January 29th

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