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Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

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Re: Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

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Post by yoshokatana »

WiseWeasel wrote: post #8

Even without paying for expedited shipping, I get stuff the next day from NewEgg with the free ground shipping option; one of the benefits of living in the Bay Area, near their distribution center. That turn-around is a large part of the reason I prefer to use NewEgg over Amazon, whose merchant partners typically take a week to get stuff to me.

Same for me in New York (they have a warehouse in New Jersey, apparently). Maybe this program will be one of those "less than 30 minutes or it's free" deals? Or possibly delivering them slightly before we finish checkout?

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Post by [deleted] »

caw wrote: post #9
Xdes wrote: post #3

Well 3 day shipping for $50 or 2 day shipping across many sites for $79 with shoprunner. Also shoprunner is a free benefit with an Amex card and they occasionally have a deal of spend $x on y site and get a one year membership.

Wow, I have an AMEX but didn't know about it. For anyone else curious: https://www.shoprunner.com/americanexpress/ EDIT: Apparently it's not all American Express cards. My Fidelity AMEX doesn't qualify.

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Re: Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

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Post by bluedino »

yalogin wrote: post #10

Isn't newegg only for electronics? How is this competing with amazon?

NewEgg sells all kinds of random things now. On the front page I see perfume, jewlery, and paper plates.

I was never a huge fan of NewEgg and after dealing with them for returns and having orders not process until the day after I place them, I order from elsewhere. Most of the time you can find things for the same price on Amazon anyway.

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Post by 15characterlimi »

vonmoltke wrote: post #5
15characterlimi wrote: post #2

I wonder how well their marketplace is doing? The selection seems poor and almost random, like a flea market. I never think to check Newegg for things other than computer parts and I almost always end up ordering on amazon because I have Prime. I guess this may change that.

I agree on the marketplace. I usually order my parts from Newegg, though, because I have a preferred account and Amazon pricing for computer parts is sometimes very strange and volatile. I saw a set of memory sticks I was looking at go from $136 to $235 to $147 in the span of a week.

In some ways Newegg is like the Best Buy paradigm for me (try things out at Best Buy, purchase on Amazon). Newegg always has better technical details and specs than Amazon but Amazon usually has better prices + Prime. I hope this works out well for the Egg

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Post by dangrossman »

MichaelTieso wrote: post #15
bluedino wrote: post #4

The streaming is a huge benefit of Amazon and Prime is worth it for that alone. $6-7 * 12 months

Really? I find their selection horrible.

Horrible compared to what? For that price, you could buy one second-rate DVD per month. Or buy half a season of TV episodes for streaming. Or half a ticket to a movie theater. Or 3 weeks of Netflix/Hulu/etc -- Prime is cheaper even if you allocate $0 in value to the shipping perks. For that price Prime is giving you thousands of movies and TV series, including some awesome original programming (Betas, Alpha House). It's hard to argue there's not $6/mo of value there if you can find just one thing a month to watch.

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Post by rwong48 »

caw wrote: post #9
Xdes wrote: post #3

Well 3 day shipping for $50 or 2 day shipping across many sites for $79 with shoprunner. Also shoprunner is a free benefit with an Amex card and they occasionally have a deal of spend $x on y site and get a one year membership.

Wow, I have an AMEX but didn't know about it. For anyone else curious: https://www.shoprunner.com/americanexpress/ EDIT: Apparently it's not all American Express cards. My Fidelity AMEX doesn't qualify.

Yep, I didn't know either until the holiday season was almost over. I could've ShopRunner'd so many things!
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