With stalls offering up to 90 percent discounts to the first 360 buyers, a queue of more than 300 was in place outside the four participating malls at 8.30am yesterday - three hours before the fair opened. About 80 had been in line since 6.30am.
With more than 600 booths, the eight-day event is expected to attract 600,000 visitors - about 10 percent more than the January fair.
Among the bargains were Philips speakers at prices slashed from HK$299 to HK$29 each - which were snapped up within 10 minutes.
Other sought-after bargains were Philips custom headphones for HK$1, Kingston 4G memory sticks (HK$29) and BenQ 19" LED monitors (HK$599).
Tsang Yick-chui, 48, snagged two BenQ monitors. He and his family of three had set off from Sheung Shui around 8am.
"The prices are too attractive, although the monitor we have at home is still in good order," said Tsang, who just missed getting his hands on a Gigabyte notebook at HK$700 off.
Eighteen-year-old Kwong was thrilled to have bought a Philips custom earphone kit for HK$1, after being the 140th person in the queue before 8am.
Capital Computer Centre salesman Lau Tak- cheung said each customer spent an average of HK$2,000 in his shop, with its HK$1,899 notebooks proving very popular with students.
Primary school teacher Law Yuen-wan, 28, said she was looking to spend up to HK$800 on branded custom earphones for her boyfriend. However, she personally prefers to spend on education.
The annual computer carnival is hosted by the Hong Kong Computer Association.
It comes two days ahead of the Computer and Communication Festival, staged by the Chamber of Hong Kong Computer Industry.
Association vice chairman Lui Kin-chong said too many computer festivals will harm the interests of smaller merchants.
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