Question Old Newegg Build Orders

[Sgraffite]

It turns out you can search your old orders on Newegg by searching keywords such as motherboard, cpu, memory, hard drive, etc. I may have ordered some stuff from zipzoomfly or elsewhere at the time.

Here is a build I did in 2001:

 

[mindless1]

Up to point, if I search CPU it doesn't show me any purchases prior to July 2004, while I'm 100% certain I bought several CPUs prior to that.

 

[Sgraffite]

I had that issue too, somehow this order didn't come up if I searched motherboard or CPU, but it did with hard drive.

You could try pluralizing words too. Like processors. As they have generic placeholders for some stuff.

 

[mindless1]

Yeah I see a few more, a bit older searching processors instead of CPU, though whether it's all, I have no idea and it wouldn't bother me if it isn't, as I documented purchases at the time including screenshots, can find them faster with an archive search.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

One of the many many builds I did back then

 

[utahraptor]

This might be my oldest. I've gotten stuff off tiger direct before.

 

[Sgraffite]

This might be my oldest. I've gotten stuff off tiger direct before.


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Dang, I forgot about Tiger Direct until just now!

 

[mindless1]

... and Directron! I got a lot of Dell OEM surplus from them dirt cheap. For nostalgia's sake I just checked their site and it looks nothing like it used to, devolved into a simpler site rather than fancier like everyone else did, like they gave up on direct to consumer many years ago. Same address though, so whether someone bought the whole company or they just scrapped the site design to do B2B, IDK.

 

[utahraptor]

... and Directron! I got a lot of Dell OEM surplus from them dirt cheap. For nostalgia's sake I just checked their site and it looks nothing like it used to, devolved into a simpler site rather than fancier like everyone else did, like they gave up on direct to consumer many years ago. Same address though, so whether someone bought the whole company or they just scrapped the site design to do B2B, IDK.

Ever get stuff off Xoxide? My first self built PC at 19 was a Pentium IV with a DFI Lanparty mobo. It had a UV reactive motherboard and I bought cold cathode tubes in UV light to bring it to life with UV reactive matching orange rounded IDE cables for the seagate barracuda and the CD combo drive.

 

[mindless1]

^ Think I bought some aluminum mesh fan filters from Xoxide but not much else. Found a shortcut I had to them from 2002, http://www.xoxide.com/12alfanfil.html

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Dang, I forgot about Tiger Direct until just now!

I had not thought of ZZF in ages before you mentioned them in the OP. I remember MWave had some of the best prices before Newegg opened. They are still doing biz down under.

I sourced parts from Directron for some builds. They tried the pricing error for a few items, trying to get more money from me, so I stopped doing biz with them. Newegg ended up with 99% of my biz because they were the whole package; price, service, support.