Something many people aren't realizing is that while Amazon is now including state tax most places, Newegg isn't in many places. With the use of this kind of shipping discount, a lot of the things Newegg stocks are going to be noticeably cheaper even if the actual price of the item itself is the same.
Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor
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#32Well 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.
And newegg was part of shoprunner, it would suck if they get rid of shoprunner coz of this
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#33Would be cool except whenever I order from newegg I get it the next day regardless of what shipping option I choose
Amazon throttled their free shipping at a certain point after launching prime. Newegg will do it, too. There was a point when I reliably got Amazon packages fast with free shipping, and now I reliably don't.
The funny thing is, the shipping is all done through the same channels and I guess there's not really a way to slow it down selectively, so the way they do it is sit on free-shipping orders for a few days before shipping. They used to always ship same day or next day, now several days go by at the least before the shipping starts.
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#34Even 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.
"whose merchant partners typically take a week to get stuff to me" Which is a week faster than Amazon's normal shipping rate. I think Amazon has purposefully made their shipping slower to get more people to sign up for Prime. But I can't make myself sign up to their anticompetitive BS.
Or those prime packages simply get bumped up in the queue to be before other orders that were already placed because they need to be to get out as fast as they do. And how is Prime anticompetitive?
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#35I 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.
While Amazon is great overall, in many specific areas they also seem random like a flea market.
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#36That's good news, but I'm still forming my opinion about Newegg. I've only ordered three times from them, but allow me this comparison:
I never received a product from Amazon that didn't match its description. That doesn't mean these don't exist.
I recently received an item from Newegg that didn't match the description. The page has since been removed and it was changed in Google Cache too. It was a 1000W PSU which was supposed to have 8x6+2 PCI-E connectors, but it really only has 6.
Also, upon checkout Newegg informed me that I could spare the 17$ of express shipping since they could deliver the goods in the same time with standard shipping. The delivery took 9 days. This never happens on Amazon.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Blue Cash Preferred qualifies. Man, I'm still discovering little perks to AMEX like this.
Any other notable perks?
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#38That's good news, but I'm still forming my opinion about Newegg. I've only ordered three times from them, but allow me this comparison: I never received a product from Amazon that didn't match its description. That doesn't mean these don't exist. I recently received an item from Newegg that didn't match the description. The page has since been removed and it was changed in Google Cache too. It was a 1000W PSU which w…
I received an item from amazon that didn't match the description. It was supposed to be a spray bottle of mineral oil to kill plant mites. When it came it was just the oil, but not in the spray bottle. I emailed amazon to let them know and said I didn't want to return the produce since I had a spare spray bottle; I just wanted them to correct their catalogue. The csr thanked me, said he or she would contact their catalogue team, and (unprompted) refunded 1/2 the purchase amount without my asking.
This is part of the reason I made 35 purchases last year from amazon.
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#39Well 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.
For those surprised by free shoprunner with amex, check slickdeals once in a while to find out things like this.
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#40That's good news, but I'm still forming my opinion about Newegg. I've only ordered three times from them, but allow me this comparison: I never received a product from Amazon that didn't match its description. That doesn't mean these don't exist. I recently received an item from Newegg that didn't match the description. The page has since been removed and it was changed in Google Cache too. It was a 1000W PSU which w…
I'm not discounting your experience -- by all means, let it inform your future purchases -- but as someone who's been happily ordering from NewEgg for over a decade, suggesting your single bad NewEgg purchase could possibly be representative and/or forming a judgment based on that is... hard to swallow.
You got a raw deal. Once. It's good to share, but it'd be far more useful to know what the product was or who fulfilled it. If it was NewEgg, that'd be good to know, too (I don't know if they sell things that other companies fulfill; it's become so common that I assume it's happening everywhere) but what little you've provided says not nearly enough to draw a conclusion.