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I have bought from both egg and zip and can't say I have a problem with either. My usual deal is to look at it on egg (because of easier navigation and you can see what you are getting) and check it on zip to see their deal is. I just priced a 512DDR memory strip from a local "Wholesaler" and he was $11 plus 8% tax over the egg.

Those two seem to work for me.

Smoke
 
Originally posted by: Akira1224
Originally posted by: Auric
Yeah, their shipping games are stoopid. Not combining is like a bad eBay seller. Claiming "free shipping" when it is just included in the list price (relative to other sellers) is like pooping in my mouth and calling it a sundae.
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Are you referring to NE or ZZ? ZZ is competitive with NE and most other distributors. When you see prices on ZZ you know that is the price to your door 2nd day air.(except on larger items such as monitors and full systems etc) How much would it be to get the identical item at NE...lets test shall we?

ZZ-FX-55 $910 FREE second day air
NE - FX-55 $929 + $15.95 2nd day air

ZZ- WD 36.7 gig raptor $103.00 FREE second day air
NW - WD 36.7 gig raptor $109 + $12.95 second day air

hrmmm so Zipzoom is still cheaper even with their shipping costs built in. Which we all know they are.

I am sure you can get lower than that. And I am also sure there are deals where the reverse holds true too. I was just trying to make the point that you should shop around and not count on one place for everything.
Thank you for your time.
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Wow did not now about zip zoom, I have always bought my stuff from newegg. I assumed that they where
the cheapest and have always reffered my friends to them. I guess I have to shop around for my next hardware upgrade.

Bottom line
Newegg
customer service is good
shipping price somewhat unreasonable
parts price comparable to zip zoom

how is the customer service of zip zoom?

thanks for the info
 
The addage which comes to mind is "Do not place all your eggs in one basket" 😉 Being white box builder I have 8-10 vendors I use for acquiring the necessary hardware and software. Da egg is great but you have to know what and when to buy from them.
 
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: Neptune3000
Newegg sucks. Everything i've bought from them has ended up broken: deathstars, epox mobo fried by enermax PSU bought from newegg, 2x cruciall ddr266, lite on dvd, lite on cdrw. all within a YEAR. on the other hand, the stuff i've bought from compusa has yet to fail me. only problem is compusa over chrages..prolly because they test more?

heh, screw newegg, i'll have to RMA to them pretty soon.
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yeah, compusa tests more. :roll:

end your life
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kiss my sack?

well, I suspect they might, even if that is not the case everything i've bought from newegg except CPUs have been defective. even NOW i have to RMA my chaintecj mobo because of the dreaded NOISE that alot of chaintech users seem to be having.

but i suppose some of teh blame CAN be diverted to the manufaturer...but heh, screw newegg. OVERRATED

Originally posted by: DGath
Had some problems with bad parts from NewEgg as well. I also hate that they sell parts that shouldn't even be sold in the US. Basically can't trust them all the time. ZZF has my serivce till they screw me over.
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you rock

Originally posted by: Reck
newegg sucks I don't understand why people suck up to them in their reviews. The service is average the prices are high...why shop there? The return policies are not very good either...
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you rock! these FANBOYS. it's not like newegg is GIVING the merchandise away... then I would gladly pucker up, but unfortunately i have to buy this crap so i'm not letting them get away with ANYTHING!



The ONLY reason i order from newegg is because their site is easy to navigate and it's PRETTY. honestly, it's a stupid reason but a reason nonetheless. the way their site is organized makes it easy to buy what i want and thats about their ONLY good attribute. If i was'nt so impatient I would order from a different place but eh....





 
If you really think rapeusa is better than newegg then take nick's advice and end yourself. Rapeusa sucks a big one.
 
Originally posted by: MartinCracauer
Well, they want to charge me $24 shipping for:
- one power supply
- two mini-usb cables
- one USB reader

(Cheaptest shipping).

I don't think so.

The flat shipping charges don't go down if you order some random small stuff, it costs $5 shipping each no matter how big the package already is.
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Simple solution - shop somewhere else. 🙂
I buy little stuff, like cables, heatsinks, and related little items, from SVC or other online retailers who will ship with the postal service. Newegg is mainly for heavier items - I bought a UPS from them. Not many places will ship a 35 pound computer part for $5. Granted, they probably do make up some of the cost with the price of the item, but even so, it still was a good price.
 
Originally posted by: Yolner
If you really think rapeusa is better than newegg then take nick's advice and end yourself. Rapeusa sucks a big one.
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I dont think their prices are better at all, nothing i've ever purchased from there has ever broke. And they were just an arbritrary exmaple i could've said circuit city, best buy, radiosuck! all i was trying to infer was that retail purchases from an actual STORE for ME have always worked out best in comparison to online purchases from places such as newegg. heh, end your own life
 
Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
I have never had any problems with the Egg

I love them
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well ofcourse you do. You've NEVER had any problems. However, we cannot all be as lucky and i feel it's only fair to air their dirty laundry so there will still be people like YOU. My speaking out makes sure that they try as HARD as possible and out of it comes satisfied customers like you.

If no one complains they'll just do whatever they want.
 
ive never had a problem with newegg, ive always thought their tax and shipping rates were on par with everything else ive encountered, ill continue to buy from them, i think the problem stories i hear time after time are literally 1 in 100 customers, because all my friends have never had any problems either
 
Most of you got it wrong. I usally configure the parts between a number of compaines (with high reseller ratings) and see which is cheaper. The cheaper one gets my buy. Same should go for everyone else.
 
Originally posted by: LeadFrog
Most of you got it wrong. I usally configure the parts between a number of compaines (with high reseller ratings) and see which is cheaper. The cheaper one gets my buy. Same should go for everyone else.
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Well, the problem is that with other online shops I can first collect the stuff I came for, i.e. the major stuff.

Then I usually like to throw in some random cheapo stuff like cables, USB somethings or a bunch of media.

When I do that the price at newegg suddenly explodes and is stays mostly constant at zipzoomfly.

So newegg, while I overall like it and bought most of my major stuff there recently, makes for a negative shopping experience.
 
I've been comfortable buying larger items from NewEgg, but they have been losing a lot of my business due to their unreasonable shipping policy on multiple small items. Heck, I can get printer ink cartridges *substantially* cheaper from Amazon.com than from NewEgg, a fact which really surprised me when I discovered it. What's more, things are changing so that there are better sources for the larger, more expensive items too ... e.g., last month I saved myself a few bucks by getting my 19" CRT elsewhere.

I don't have anything against NewEgg, at least not yet, but the fact is that they are simply not keeping up with the competition in most areas anymore, and one of these days I suspect they are going to start feeling some pain in the pocketbook because of that.
 
Newegg as a company probably does not want to deal with nickel and dime orders. It takes the same time to process a printer cartridge order that it does a $500 video card.

For things I have ordered from them NewEgg was the lowest cost with all additional costs factored in....most recently my Pioneer DVR-108.

 
You could be right about their reasoning. But if someone wants to order a dozen printer cartridges, that's still just one order to be processed, and a fair amount of money to be made. So the $50+ shipping charge such an order can incur still doesn't make much sense to me.
 
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Newegg as a company probably does not want to deal with nickel and dime orders. It takes the same time to process a printer cartridge order that it does a $500 video card.
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Still doesn't make full sense.

Throwing in several cables of exactly the same kind would be almost free money for them.

But they charge $4 shipping for a $3 cable, and if you get 10 of those cables you are in for $70 overall.
 
Originally posted by: MartinCracauer
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Newegg as a company probably does not want to deal with nickel and dime orders. It takes the same time to process a printer cartridge order that it does a $500 video card.
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Still doesn't make full sense.

Throwing in several cables of exactly the same kind would be almost free money for them.

But they charge $4 shipping for a $3 cable, and if you get 10 of those cables you are in for $70 overall.
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Think profit per $3 cable and then the space needed to store them....they don't really want to deal in that....the NewEgg shopper is looking usually for the best deals and I am willing to bet they are hoping none of these cables sell unless they CAN charge the $4 fee. A lot of stuff like this gets used internally for package deals and the like.

In regards to the printer cartridge deal....it's the same thing. You have specialty stores that can easily undercut the big guy that has various inventory. NewEgg I believe is trying to win the customer in with the low priced hard drive, cpu, DVD/CD, etc and hope you pick up some additional steeper merchandise at the same time.

It's how Best Buy uses movies and music to get you in the store and then sells you a full kitchen set of appliances for usually a little more than the discount appliance shop down the street that sells only appliances.

When I sold Cisco gear, we had all the cables and miscellary crap....we did not want to sell it individually as more often than not our $15 cable sale would end up costing us a ton of time in a customer expecting us to now configure the router he is attaching the cable to, that he bought from a competitor that does not supply technical support (we sold and supported all gear, on big sales a tech would often deliver and setup the items)....

 
If the company didn't want to deal with small items then they wouldn't. It's not like they sell from a comprehensive inventory like buy.com or such. But perhaps that is because they carry their own inventory rather than drop-ship directly from distributors. Sadly for them, they don't even know how much business they lose when potential customers find much better pricing elsewhere. It's not quite the same as retail chains that try to take advantage with criminally high mark-ups on accessories like USB cables because the customer may still purchase the main item and forgo the accessory. But online, the customer is just as likely to take their whole order to another seller when the total shipped price is taken into account. And since online sellers have such a low cost structure it is crazy to turn away any sale. Indeed it is better to sell some items at cost to win an entire order. There really isn't any excuse for not basing shipping rates on order weight rather than their queerly amateur fixed rate system. Anyhoo, I think it is going a bit far to say newegg is suck but I really do not understand when fanboys gush over a seller. I always check pricegrabber, froogle and pricewatch and will go with the lowest shipped price with preference for the most reliable sellers. Simple as that.
 
Originally posted by: Auric
If the company didn't want to deal with small items then they wouldn't. It's not like they sell from a comprehensive inventory like buy.com or such. But perhaps that is because they carry their own inventory rather than drop-ship directly from distributors. Sadly for them, they don't even know how much business they lose when potential customers find much better pricing elsewhere. It's not quite the same as retail chains that try to take advantage with criminally high mark-ups on accessories like USB cables because the customer may still purchase the main item and forgo the accessory. But online, the customer is just as likely to take their whole order to another seller when the total shipped price is taken into account. And since online sellers have such a low cost structure it is crazy to turn away any sale. Indeed it is better to sell some items at cost to win an entire order. There really isn't any excuse for not basing shipping rates on order weight rather than their queerly amateur fixed rate system. Anyhoo, I think it is going a bit far to say newegg is suck but I really do not understand when fanboys gush over a seller. I always check pricegrabber, froogle and pricewatch and will go with the lowest shipped price with preference for the most reliable sellers. Simple as that.
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drop shipping is the work of the small guy.

I know from experience once you scale up, technical support and idiot questions end up costing sales. You get into the state of you need more staff, but that staff is not income-generating.

I buy a lot of stuff, almost everyday I have a package at work. I will split orders between vendors if the price is right. However, the average consumer doesn't shop 'smart', they look at details instead of the big picture...this is how many businesses thrive.

Also not all online vendors have low costs, there are a lot of mom and pops and beyond also trying to create an internet presence....many don't have that entity in them for various reasons.

The only reason [ever] to sell at cost is repeat business at profit. If that doesn't exist just move on.

If you ever *really* worked a business generating shipping weights (which depend also on package size....it's easy for a 5 lb order to be billed 75lbs+ by the shipper) is a fiasco/clusterfvk.

your 'simple as that' is indeed the correct answer though...but how many shoppers know all these things, many don't even know PC basics.

There are *few* sellers I *gush* over, however, they do exist....some have spent more than my order trying to make it right.

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That is not neweggs fault, it is the fault of the manurfacturers. Retailers are not responsible for product testing every individual product they ship out.

OK look at the things you bought:

IBM deskstars or "Deathstars" - Everyone knows the crappy reputation these drives had, it was your fault for buying one.

lite-on Drives- There drives are cheap, but quality has taken a huge hit lately.

enermax PSU- should have gone with antec I guess.

And no, Compusa charges more because they have a higher overhead, due to the fact that they must operate their retail stores, supply those stores on a regular basis, and pay employees to sell to you. Newegg avoids most of those costs by existing solely online.

Compusa does not do product testing.

Learn what the hell you are talking about before opening your mouth and badmouthing someone.

have a nice day fvck face.
 
Originally posted by: rpbri2886
That is not neweggs fault, it is the fault of the manurfacturers. Retailers are not responsible for product testing every individual product they ship out.
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EXACTLY right...but do most consumers KNOW this?

Originally posted by: rpbri2886
IBM deskstars or "Deathstars" - Everyone knows the crappy reputation these drives had, it was your fault for buying one.
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I bought one and I am a researched shopper....fortunately no problems on mine in 2 years with 8 hour+ use a day....however there are indeed problems with this drive, hence why this 60GB takes on swap, temp, and not important duties.

Originally posted by: rpbri2886
Compusa does not do product testing.
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nor almost any non-manufacturer...

Originally posted by: rpbri2886

Learn what the hell you are talking about before opening your mouth and badmouthing someone.

have a nice day fvck face.
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quoted for the whoosh sound over someone's head.
 
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