If anyone has been following the saga of the Yahoogle system and is still interested I ordered two complete systems tonight using my webpage. I had planned to build 3 but one guy backed out so I ended up ordering for my brother and my brother-in-law. Just to keep things confusing I also ordered a partial system to use as an upgrade to my own computer.
I found it was quite simple to order all the parts using the buy links on my webpage, with only slight difficulties ordering the multiple items from newegg. I had to open a new window to add each item to the shopping cart. I wish I could create a buy button on my page that would take you to newegg and place one of each item in the shopping cart but I don't think it can be done.
On the bright side I found that newegg discounts the shipping as you order more items, presumably, they are passing on the savings of packing the items together in larger boxes. Although seemingly obvious, this is a pleasent surprise and a big feather in neweggs cap in my opinion. All in all I saved 15.99 from the stated shipping cost on my website. On top of that a couple items had already dropped in price just since I put the site up. The video card dropped in price by 3 bucks (interestingly, the shipping went up a dollar) and the HD dropped a buck.
On the bad side I had forgot that I wanted to use round cables, and had to go back and place a second order at newegg for those, probably ending up costing myself some unnecessary shipping costs.
Completing the orders was very easy from all of the vendors and the transactions were handled very quickly. I received email confirmations from each vendor within minutes of placing my order.
My new total cost ended up being $944.62 as opposed to $963.61 quoted on my site. That does not include tax and the round cables which don't apply to the site.
I will keep you all updated on the progress as long as there is interest, I will probably create a diary of the whole thing (with pictures) on the webite as well all the way through the final build of each system.
Thanks again to everyone who provided input and support as to the components used in the computer.
I found it was quite simple to order all the parts using the buy links on my webpage, with only slight difficulties ordering the multiple items from newegg. I had to open a new window to add each item to the shopping cart. I wish I could create a buy button on my page that would take you to newegg and place one of each item in the shopping cart but I don't think it can be done.
On the bright side I found that newegg discounts the shipping as you order more items, presumably, they are passing on the savings of packing the items together in larger boxes. Although seemingly obvious, this is a pleasent surprise and a big feather in neweggs cap in my opinion. All in all I saved 15.99 from the stated shipping cost on my website. On top of that a couple items had already dropped in price just since I put the site up. The video card dropped in price by 3 bucks (interestingly, the shipping went up a dollar) and the HD dropped a buck.
On the bad side I had forgot that I wanted to use round cables, and had to go back and place a second order at newegg for those, probably ending up costing myself some unnecessary shipping costs.
Completing the orders was very easy from all of the vendors and the transactions were handled very quickly. I received email confirmations from each vendor within minutes of placing my order.
My new total cost ended up being $944.62 as opposed to $963.61 quoted on my site. That does not include tax and the round cables which don't apply to the site.
I will keep you all updated on the progress as long as there is interest, I will probably create a diary of the whole thing (with pictures) on the webite as well all the way through the final build of each system.
Thanks again to everyone who provided input and support as to the components used in the computer.
nice concept too 
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