humm.. wth? Egghead.com sold to Fry's Electronics?

[andylawcc]

i am sure alot of you guys got this email:

Dear Valued Customer,


As you may have heard, Egghead.com announced today that it has
agreed to sell certain assets, including its web site and ongoing
operations, to Fry?s Electronics. Fry?s is a privately held
chain of one-stop electronics shopping superstores based in
San Jose, CA. We expect this transition to be complete by the
end of September.


and then blablalbalblab....

hum, what's next, Buy.com selling it asset to Kmart?

 

[cyrkkle]

Egghead.com filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Fry's as part of the liquidation...it's not that Fry's is buying out Egghead....

 

[Bozo Galora]

I applaud this. At least Fry's has real employees to answer the phone. They have tons of money to buy stuff at a a discount, and they actually have inventory. They will force all the flake, no answer, no RMA, fly by night, no-english-speaking boiler rooms out of business. And good riddance to you all.
People complain all the time here about Fry's service, but its prob the easiest place around to return things - no questions asked. And nobody here should need their tech help or advice.
And now you will prob be able to order online and RMA to the B&M.

 

[pm]

Posted this here yesterday...



<< but its prob the easiest place around to return things - no questions asked. >>

Hmmm. Either Fry's has changed a lot, or your local one is a lot nicer than my local one was (when I lived in a place with a local one). I remember once I tried to return/swap defective memory that I'd bought less than 4 hours before to them, and they wouldn't let me. So I went home, used a DOS memory tester to test for errors, consistently got errors on two locations and printed and took a report back to them and they still wouldn't let me return it. So I asked for a manager, and he told me no. And then I finally gave up and drove to another Fry's where they let me swap for another with a little less fuss.

Then there's the time that I bought one of their sneaky &quot;open-box&quot; products, where the customer bought it, returned it, and they re-shrink wrapped it, and put a little white sticker in the corner that said essentially &quot;this product has been opened, but don't worry about it&quot;. I didn't notice the sticker until I was at home, and then I noticed that it was missing both the included software CD and a cable. So back to the store I go where they won't let me return it because I don't have the included software CD and cable. And again, all I wanted was another one of the exact same thing. Not a refund, but just a swap. This time the manager agreed. But still, Best Buy usually really has taken stuff back &quot;no questions asked&quot;. I honestly used to dread taking stuff back to Fry's. I certainly wouldn't say it's &quot;one of the easiest places to return things&quot;.

 

[Anjing]

As long as it's not Newegg.com

 

[Bozo Galora]

I have friends takin stuff back all the time, to the point I would be embarassed doing the same thing. A neighbor just bought a Belkin UPS at Fry's for $179, hooked it up and used it for a few days, then found it online for $118, and returned it, got full money back. He seemed to take it for granted.
Fry's specifically states electrical items like RAM are not returnable. Its tested by factory as good, and they dont have any way to know what you did to it after taking it home.
I bought a Sony CDROM and got CDR bufferunderruns because the cache was only 128K, so i returned it, told them, they credited me.

 

[MallowJr]

Egghead had a security breach and lots of people's credit card numbers were revealed to someone a year ago, took too long for them to shut down finally...probably lost a lot of business after publicizing security breach.

 

[Bozo Galora]

woah!! Wait a minute.

just noticed that was &quot;pm&quot; dinking me
uhhh......do I recall correctly: you were fed up with the flakes here, picked up your marbles and left forever for more mature pastures?

well, well........

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!


(Kinda like smokin' crack ain't it?)

Edit: *not speaking for Intel, AMD, Cyrix, IBM, Creative, or Nvidia*

 

[pm]

Yeah, I'm back... I'm now mostly located in HT. Aside from news that interests me - like the Fry's thing.

And, yeah, they do have a &quot;no return policy&quot; on RAM. That's why they have me such a hard time. But the point remains: I know what I am doing, I was careful with static, I treated the RAM like it was delicate electronics, and when I got home several locations were bad. Two or three IIRC. They sold me bad RAM. So you can say that their &quot;no return policy&quot; on RAM eliminates them from blame, but I bought it thinking it would work, and it didn't. If I hadn't gotten them to take it back, I would have been really irritated. As it was, I just never bought a CPU or RAM from them again. So, yeah, I really think that returning stuff there was a big pain. And the open box, shrinkwrapped thing wasn't my fault either.

No, I liked to go there to visit, but after returning things there a couple of times, I gave up actually shopping there. After that I would just buy little things (like capacitors, and resistors).