Complete and utter crap packaging from Newegg lately. I just recieved a box with 2PSU's, 3 DVD drives, 2 retail CPU's and a windows server 2003 and there was no filler other than a folded up piece of kraft paper. The boxes were bouncing around and all of them are banged up. I'd say about 35% of the box was nothing but air.
I order a LOT of stuff from Newegg (over $160,000 in the last 5 years) and their packaging quality has been going down steadily for the past year now while their shipping prices have gone up tremendously. Recently I have been pricing items at CDW and they are actually very competitive with Newegg on a lot of components. Their packaging is also 1000% better. As an example I ordered 2 oem hard drives and 4 sticks of ram from CDW. the hard drives came boxed in their own 6x8x10 boxes suspended by a plastic shell inside each box. 2 of these boxes came packaged together and the ram was shipped in a bubble mailer packed inside a big box filled with bubble wrap. all of this was shipped ups ground and arrived in 1 day for less than I could buy it at Newegg.
Newegg really needs to hear this and know that their shipping prices may not be something they can lower due to fuel costs and related charges now but they need to be damned sure they keep their packaging up to professional levels to go along with these increased prices. Already my money is being spent elsewhere and more of it will continue to do so if they don't change their practices.
I order a LOT of stuff from Newegg (over $160,000 in the last 5 years) and their packaging quality has been going down steadily for the past year now while their shipping prices have gone up tremendously. Recently I have been pricing items at CDW and they are actually very competitive with Newegg on a lot of components. Their packaging is also 1000% better. As an example I ordered 2 oem hard drives and 4 sticks of ram from CDW. the hard drives came boxed in their own 6x8x10 boxes suspended by a plastic shell inside each box. 2 of these boxes came packaged together and the ram was shipped in a bubble mailer packed inside a big box filled with bubble wrap. all of this was shipped ups ground and arrived in 1 day for less than I could buy it at Newegg.
Newegg really needs to hear this and know that their shipping prices may not be something they can lower due to fuel costs and related charges now but they need to be damned sure they keep their packaging up to professional levels to go along with these increased prices. Already my money is being spent elsewhere and more of it will continue to do so if they don't change their practices.
