why newegg sometimes sucks...

[yhelothar]

Newegg still has a lot of hot deals. Once in a while, they won't meet their sales quota, and they'll have a mass sale, in which many sale items will become loss leaders. My neighbor used to work at newegg.

 

[Gumby84]

I quit buying from newegg because they tax the state I'm in (Tennessee) and it jacks the price up bad.

 

[mircea]

I looked around to find where to buy all of my stuff. I found newegg to be cheaper when I had all the things together and added the shipping. Of course it's a lot cheaper to ship 20 items at once instead of one item from different vendor.

Anyways I like their shipment departament. on the 12th I ordered a few things from NewEgg and the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe from ZipZoomFly (with free 2nd Day). Since weekend is coming up, they both send me an estimated arrival on the 17th. But today the 14th my NewEgg stuff is on the FedEx truck looking for me 😉 They usually get over to my place at 11:00am

 

[walkure]

It always pays to shop around.

For L=my new proposed system]http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=27&threadid=1491109&enterthread=y[/L], it looks like Newegg only has the lowest prices on 3 components (RAM, Optical Drive (by about $1 over ZZF), and floppy drive).

To some it may be worth the extra cost to buy from one vendor only and have all parts shipped together, but I am saving quite a good amount by mixing it up.

 

[exorr]

Originally posted by: eplebnista

Originally posted by: Rodamus
I was searching for PC4000 memory from Excaliber PC and looked in Newegg as well to compare prices.

I think these 2 are the same item. Newegg's is almost twice as much! :Q

I've never tried Excaliber PC before, but the price is right for me to give them a try.

Newegg Corsair CMX512-4000PRO

Excaliber PC Corsair CMX512-4000PRO

Another example:

Volcano 10+ for ~$30 @ NewEgg

Volcano 10+ for ~$14 @ Directron

:disgust:

Another example:

Newegg - AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939 (Retail) - $235

Mwave - AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939 (Retail) - $194

 

[loco21]

Originally posted by: Zebo
I think 90% of neweggs biz is from their sweet database/website. I mean it's easy to find items.

Just yesterday I wanted skt 754 mobos, w/ sound w/video intergrated. Simply put those criteria in on AMD motherboards search page and it kicked down 10-15 results I could choose from. Next each item has sweet photographs to see board layout etc. No other site is this clean. So I still cater there...just less.

I agree with u 100% is the best and easy place to find or buy any computer part

 

[Melchior]

Newegg has almost never been the place for deals and the best prices. They occasionally have them, and sometimes always stock some nice things (like the NEC burner). And sometimes they will be the only place to have an item.

Well, can't complain. We get a choice though, you pay for convenience or maybe support and availibility. Or you pay less elsewhere if you know what you're looking for, or maybe spend a little bit more time trying to do so.

Personally, I choose the latter. Newegg's prices suck. You could config a machine in two difference places w/ exact items and Newegg might end up 100-200 dollars more expensive.

 

[Insidious]

In just the last 2 weeks, I decided I wanted the ASUS V9999GT/TD/256M/A video card for each of my computers (2). Pricegrabber and several others found the absolute lowest price was $425 and the highest was $535. Newegg had it for $429.

Both naysayers and fans can justify their attitudes about Newegg. But with your highly selective comparisons, your reviews of the site become somewhat dubious.

Overall I have found newegg to be a good place to shop. When they have a good price, buy it... when they have a high price... move on. but to flatly refuse to shop there because every single price isn't the lowest.....? Rather dumb.

-Sid

 

[Mucker]

When I look for a product, the places I goto first are pricewatch, ebay, amazon, and buy.com. Then I type in the the item in google with the word "price" behind it. I try to spot Nextag or pricegrabber. I will ALWAYS take the online route before local shopping. No tax and free shipping in alot of cases. I have shopped at Newegg the past 6 years and I can say that I have only made 1 purchase from them in the past year. They simply aren't the old Newegg. They used to be the undercutter but now they appear to be content with being the undercuttee. How they think they can sell this as marked is beyond me:

$187 shipped.........http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-119-039&depa=0

$168 shipped to 89031: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=141633

Not too hard to figure this one out, and I'm finding that alot with the EGG these days....

m 🙂

 

[Machine350]

Originally posted by: cyto
I have shopped at Newegg and ZZF. ZZF got my products out to me faster with free 2nd day. You have to add the shipping charges to compare prices and ZZF usually has the better price when all is said and done. So yes, Newegg shipping sucks. I use their site to search and look at products I'm interested in and then purchase them elsewhere for less. Thanks for those features Newegg!

My thoughts EXACTLY.

 

[tickyour]

I have shopped on Newegg for several years, had to return stuff & such, never had ANY problems. This is the smoothest site out there. The shipping is always excelent, always fast and always cheap. Perhaps they don't have the best price all the time, but what do you expect? ZZF & co. don't always have the best price either, so wheres your point?

Anyway, I'm extremely satisfied with newegg, I just bought a sound card there today. 🙂

 

[Ike0069]

Originally posted by: Insidious
In just the last 2 weeks, I decided I wanted the ASUS V9999GT/TD/256M/A video card for each of my computers (2). Pricegrabber and several others found the absolute lowest price was $425 and the highest was $535. Newegg had it for $429.

Both naysayers and fans can justify their attitudes about Newegg. But with your highly selective comparisons, your reviews of the site become somewhat dubious.

Overall I have found newegg to be a good place to shop. When they have a good price, buy it... when they have a high price... move on. but to flatly refuse to shop there because every single price isn't the lowest.....? Rather dumb.

-Sid

Agreed.
I always look at Newegg first, but if they dond't have the lowest price, I will buy from somewhere else. People only hate on Newegg because they are on top.
I did buy my Sonata from Newegg because they had free shipping, and it was still just $99. Not too many places offer free shpping on cases.