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I was looking for some opinions about new egg from my fellow forum members. Have you guys bought from there? What was your story/experience? Do you plan on buying again?

I just wanted to get everything in perspective before I make a purchase of 1000 dollars. Thanks
 
purchased my complete current pc from newegg.

all parts shipped in 3 days. no problems, still running great.

ive had it from april 08
 
Newegg has the largest stock, by far. Ive ordered 99% of my PC parts from there for the past 4 years. Ive recently had problems with their shipping the last few times ive ordered, took 2 days to ship, and UPS will usually damage the box, or just straight up open it.

Zipzoomfly is also good, they are in CA and have exelent shipping. Awhile ago on my old build, my power supply died thursday night. Friday at lunch I ordered a Thermaltake Toughpower 700W from there, was on sale for like $85 and had free overnight shipping via FedEx. It was on my doorstep that Saturday morning at about 8:30AM, less than 24 hours from CA to VA.
 
Just like others said. New egg is awsome. When I built my rig at the time well over 2k I had no problems with them at all. Had all my stuff in 3 days.
 
I generally buy everything online new from New Egg and used from eBay as far as computer parts go. They use to have better, more generous, return policies, but I think they got too many dumb noobs taking advantage of it :lol: so they had to change. Anyway dealing with the is always good. Just order.
 
my entire rig (only $900 some) is from there. Pretty awesome. Going to have to pick a complaint with UPS though. The first set of boxes came in December 07, and it was a cold wednesday night, and they left the boxes outside (i think the temp was 20 F something), and put the heavier box, which had the MOBO, CPU, VC, and PS on top, and could have easily fallen down.
 
Many of us have spent literally tens of thousands of dollars at the egg over the years. The prices aren't always the cheapest, but I would rather spend a little more there because their customer service has always been great. Plus I really like the way they make it so easy to find what you're looking for.
 
yea definitely agree, their customer service is top notch.

i spent 2k this year building my comp too, all from newegg.

newegg's prices are not always the lowest, but it tends to be on the cheaper side a great majority of the time, although there are great deals that makes thing even cheaper.

ex.rebates, promotions....etc etc

highly recommended! :)
 
Newegg is awesome; but shop around there are other great places that were already mentioned....zipzoomfly, tigerdirect and newegg are the ones i normally shop between.
 
Newegg is acceptable. You will get your products and there are no games played with the prices.

However, I found Newegg to cut too many corners in their shipping process. Newegg is not being singled out for this failure as other internet companies (Amazon comes to mind and is actually far worse than Newegg) pack to the same marginal standard.

BTW I am a manufacturer and distributor of non-consumer products. I would personally fire any employee that packed to Amazon standards. Newegg standards would get the employee suspended.

IF I was grading Newegg, I would give them a B- to a solid B. Good, but not great. TigerDirect is packaged to the same standard.... Good, but not great.

The consumer electronics company that I give an A? Crutchfield.

Every product that I have received from Crutchfield has been packaged with an exterior box that has doublewall cardboard. Often prefab foam inserts will be used between their exterior box and the manufacturer's interior box instead of foam peanuts. In other words Crutchfield is packing to the same standard that manufacturers usually package their products. Might cost a few $ extra to order from Crutchfield, but I know their is less chance of the UPS elephants breaking the product.

Yea, I wish Crutchfield sold computer parts.

 
I spend about $900 a year at Newegg to build/upgrade 3 PC's at home, plus building for a relative. Never had any problems with them. In the past 3 years I've gotten:

1 barebones system with Nvidia 405 chipset board
3 Antec power supplies
5 motherboards (690G, 690V, 2 ASUS 780G, Gigabyte 780G)
5 AMD CPU's (X2 3800+, two X2 4200+, X2 4600+, 8750)
3 Lacie brick external drives (love the Lego look)
3 external drive bays for legacy IDE
7 internal hard drives (2 WD, 1 Maxtor, 4 Seagate)
2 cases (Antec Nine Hundred, In-Win red race car)
3870x2
8400gs
two 3650

Soon to order a 4850 and a 4860 as upgrades for my wife and elementary school age kid. Me, I'll wait for ATI's DX11 cards, but I'll get it at Newegg.

If I hadn't had great experiences, I would not keep ordering from them.

I've occasionally bought things at Fry's (monitors, a couple of hard drives) but I'd rather just go there for movies, anime, DVD players, televisions and appliances. I really don't like Fry's graphics card prices, and their motherboard/CPU bundles, while inexpensive, often include less than stellar ECS boards whereas I've had better luck with a Gigabyte, ASUS and MSI in that order.
 
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